Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.

We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.

Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

The only basis on which to work for God is an esteemed appreciation of his deliverance.

God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.