Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.

Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross.

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.

The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.