We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.

Isaiah was so attuned to God, because of the great crisis he had just endured, that the call of God penetrated his soul. The majority of us cannot hear anything but ourselves. And we cannot hear anything God says. But to be brought to the place where we can hear the call of God is to be profoundly changed.

If Jesus ever commanded us to do something that He was unable to equip us to accomplish, He would be a liar. And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account.

Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.

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.

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.