The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.