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.

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.

If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.

A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.