A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.

If you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you, and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your own soul.

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede.

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.

Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.

We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.