Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God either, and it is an easily observable fact that for countless numbers of persons the change from no-faith to faith makes no actual difference in the life.

Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is.

We do not truly know what love is unless we know Christ.

We take hold of Christ as his words take hold us.