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

When we touch the foundation of the reality of the good news of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints.

Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.

Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

The nature of faith is that it must be tried.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.