We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence.

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.

It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.

Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.