The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.

The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.

Do not be more devoted to your own brain than you are to the Bible.