The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.

There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.

We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.

Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.

At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.