God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

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

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.

The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.