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.

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life. Much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

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

The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.

The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much.