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

If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.

God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilitie s on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.