When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.

Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.

The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.

It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.