I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.

Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

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 great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.

Isaiah was so attuned to God, because of the great crisis he had just endured, that the call of God penetrated his soul. The majority of us cannot hear anything but ourselves. And we cannot hear anything God says. But to be brought to the place where we can hear the call of God is to be profoundly changed.

Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.