We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.

Begin to know Him now, and finish never