Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live.

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18.

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

It is the nature of God's Word and the regulation of His will first to destroy what is in us and reduce to nothing whatever we are, and then erect His own structure.

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

It is historically and biologically true that there can be no birth and growth without birth and growing pains. Whenever there is the emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old. So the tensions which we witness in the world today are indicative of the fact that a new world order is being born and an old order is passing away.

Today's caterpillars are tomorrow's butterflies.

When a caterpillar looks in the mirror, he sees a butterfly.