If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.
A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last.
God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.
What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
