Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.

Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.

It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son of God in your life. And you cannot imitate the nature of Jesus-it is either in you or it is not. A personal insult becomes an opportunity for a saint to reveal the incredible sweetness of the Lord Jesus.