Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.

Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?