If we were never depressed we would not be alive - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.

Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.