God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.