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 practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!

The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

If you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you, and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your own soul.

Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.

Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.