You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.

Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.

There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.

Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray now - draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God's grace through prayer.

Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.