Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life. Much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.

Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.

The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.

Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?

God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.