To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

How many people have you made homesick for God?

Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.