Tension of opposites.
There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.
Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.
A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst and die whilst the water of earthly delights is running all around him. We are made to need persons not things.
He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs.
Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.
If I go out with someone I need them to sit and give me a cuddle every night. If they don't, I wonder if they still love me.
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.
What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.
The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.