All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.

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.

The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.

If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.

And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.

The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.