The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon

The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.

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.

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.

Obey Him with glad reckless joy.