God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.

Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.

God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.

At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.

It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.