humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.

The suffering of sickness and the suffering of persecution have this in common: they are both intended by Satan for the destruction of our faith, and governed by God for the purifying of our faith... Christ sovereignly accomplishes His loving, purifying purpose, by overruling Satan's destructive attempts. Satan is always aiming to destroy our faith; but Christ magnifies His power in weakness.

Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.