God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.

The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in.

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

Certainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic asylums who have the experience of being the Emperor Napoleon or a poached egg. It is unquestionably an experience, and to them a real experience, but for all that it has no kind of universal validity. It is necessary to go far beyond simply saying that something comes from experience. Before any such thing can be evaluated at all, the source and character of the experience must clearly be investigated.

To repent means to realize that the kind of life we are living is wrong and that we must adopt a completely new set of values. To that end, it involves two things. It involves sorrow for what we have been and it involves the resolve that by the grace of God we will be changed.

The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.

Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.