God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

Never try to help God fulfill His word.

Do we so appreciate the marvelous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest?

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

The key to the missionary's work is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the lost. We are inclined to look on our Lord as one who assists us in our endeavors for God. Yet our Lord places Himself as the absolute sovereign and supreme Lord over His disciples. He does not say that the lost will never be saved if we don't go- He simply says, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations...."