Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

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

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.

We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life...If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.