Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are- you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

Isaiah was so attuned to God, because of the great crisis he had just endured, that the call of God penetrated his soul. The majority of us cannot hear anything but ourselves. And we cannot hear anything God says. But to be brought to the place where we can hear the call of God is to be profoundly changed.

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.