Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

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

If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.

The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.

Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?