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.

Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.

Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.