Above all, it is not necessary that we should have any unexpected, extraordinary experiences in meditation. This can happen, but if it does not, it is not a sign that the medita ...

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

After all, we are told, our salvation has already been accomplished by the grace of God It was unkind to speak to men like this, for such a cheap offer could only leave them bew ...

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

But when once Christ had called him, Peter had no alternative he must leave the ship and come to Him. In the end, the first step of obedience proves to be an act of faith in the ...

During the last year or so, I have come to appreciate the "worldliness" of Christianity as never before. The Christian is not a homo religiosus but a man, pure and simple, just ...

Every moment and every situation challenges us to action and to obedience. We have literally no time to sit down and ask ourselves whether so-and-so is our neighbor or not. We m ...

Furthermore, [the unchristian environment] is the place where we find out whether the Christian's meditation has led him into the unreal, from which he awakens in terror when he ...

If temptation were really what natural man and moral man understand by it, namely, testing of their own strength whether their vital or their moral or even their Christian stren ...

If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find acces ...