If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if by being born again from above we know Him first as Savior, we know that He did not come to teach us only. He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.

When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.