Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.

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.

Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.

If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.

Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.