We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

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.

Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.