The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.

Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.