Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.

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

It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the conception we have in our minds of prayer. If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly; we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is.

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.