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

To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.

It is easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. You will be more prosperous and successful, more leisure-hearted, if you never realize the call of God.

The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but 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.

The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.

Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our spiritual hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.