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.

So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.

Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused and on the right goal. At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you. Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.