The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer

If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

Some prayers are followed by silence (from God) because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than one can understand. It will be a wonderful moment for some of us when we stand before God and find that the prayers we clamored for in early days and imagined were never answered, have been answered in the most amazing way, and that God's silence has been the sign of the answer.

If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.