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.

The only basis on which to work for God is an esteemed appreciation of his deliverance.

Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of God.

The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.

A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!

Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.