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.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.

Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious.There's only one master of the heart-Jesus, not religion.

We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

It is a great thing to see physical courage, and greater still to see moral courage, but the greatest to see of all is spiritual courage; oh, to see a person who will stand true to the integrity of Jesus Christ no matter what he or she goes through!