If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.

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

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.