If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

The path of peace for us is to hand ourselves over to God and ask Him to search us, not what we think we are, or what other people think we are, or what we persuade ourselves we are or would like to be, but 'Search me out, O God, explore me as I really am in Thy sight.'

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

Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

Spiritual lust--'I must have it at once'--causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God himself who gives the answer. Is today 'the third day' and He has still not done what I expected? Whenever we insist that God should give us an answer to prayer we are off track. The purpose of prayer is that we get a hold of God, not of the answer.