Prayer shouldn’t be a burden but a privilege—God wants our fellowship.

We should say nothing that we would not wish to say in His Presence. We should do nothing that we would not do in His Presence.

The Christian should stand out like a sparkling diamond against a rough background. He should be more wholesome than anyone else. He should be poised, cultured, courteous, gracious, but firm in the things that he does and does not do. He should laugh and be radiant, but he should refuse to allow the world to pull him down to its level.

[Christ’s] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His sinlessness still reveals our sinfulness; and unless we allow [Jesus] to destroy the evil within us, the evil within us still wants to destroy Him. This is the conflict of the ages.

A born-again Christian should no more think of going back to the old life than an adult to his childhood.

The subject of heaven is much easier to accept than the subject of hell. And yet the Bible teaches both.