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

The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things.

It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life...If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.