Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, an that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there must be no such thing left, only freedom which is very different. Freedom is the ability not to insist on my rights, but to see that God gets his

Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.

Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.