The man who prays ceases to be a fool

People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.

Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost, who produces these agonies begins the formation of the Son God in the life.