To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

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

Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man exactly like Himself, and the characteristic of the Son of God is self-expenditure.

It is much easier to do something than to trust in God. That is why there are so few fellow workers with God and so many workers for Him. We would far rather work for God than believe in Him.

If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome.