The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.

It has to do with seeing God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).

This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.

Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.

I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.