We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.

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.

When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master’s service is to be well soaked in the Bible; some of us only exploit certain passages. Our Lord wants to give us continuous instruction out of His word; continuous instruction turns hearers into disciples.

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

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.

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.