When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything!

Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.

God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.

So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.

We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.