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.

Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?

Sanctification means the impartation of the Holy qualities of Jesus Christ. It is His patience, His love, His holiness, His faith, His purity, His godliness, that is manifested in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy; it is drawing from Jesus the holiness that was manifested in Him, and He manifests it in me.

The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

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

Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.