Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.

Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.

If Jesus ever commanded us to do something that He was unable to equip us to accomplish, He would be a liar. And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account.