Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.

Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.

If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will.

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.