We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person ...... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.

The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.