God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.

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 in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.

Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.