Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.

Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.

Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.

If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.