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.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost, who produces these agonies begins the formation of the Son God in the life.

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.

The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.

If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.