The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow.

Men and Women of Christ magnify their callings without magnifying themselves.

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?

We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.

Endurance involves much more than putting up with a situation; Patient Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell of circumstance. True Enduring represents not merely the passage of time, . . . but the Passage of Soul.

The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will draw out of them the last full measure of devotion. It is a doctrine for the deep believer but it will bring only scorn from the skeptic.