Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.

Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee.'

Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.

Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.

If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God’s Word.