We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.

What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of all Grace straight to the intimate personal heart of each one mentioned here, and I know that He Who is not prescribed by time and geography answers immediately.

The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him. It is easier to serve than to pour out our lives completely for Him.

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it, we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being which he or she cannot possibly give.

The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.