If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome.

Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.