The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian.' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed 'that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.'

God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.

Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already...this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.

There is only one relationship that matters, and that is your personal relationship to a personal Redeemer and Lord. Let everything else go, but maintain that at all cost, and God will fulfill His purpose through your life. (This includes meeting the needs of your heart.) One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purposes, and yours may be that life.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.