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”?

When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything!

Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us to do the things that are naturally easy for us- He only asks us to do the things that we are perfectly fit to do through His grace, and that is where the cross we must bear will always come.

When we touch the foundation of the reality of the good news of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints.

My worth to God in public is what I am in private.

Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.