I lent said book to someone recently, and when they returned it to me, I was inspired to reread the beginning of chapter 14 (which, the first time I read it, had a major impact on how I live). Here’s a string of quotes that sums up well what hit me so hard when I read it originally. It’s a lesson we all desperately need to learn.

“The Lord Jesus accepted is holiness begun; the Lord Jesus cherished is holiness advancing; the Lord Jesus counted upon as never absent would be holiness complete…”

“He is most holy who has most of Christ within, and joys most fully in the finished work. It is defective faith that clogs the feet and causes many a fall…”

“And how to have our faith increased? Only by thinking of all that Jesus is and all He is for us: His life, His death, His work, He Himself as revealed to us in the Word, to be the subject of our constant thoughts. Not a striving after faith…but a looking to the Faithful One seems all we need; a resting in the Loved One entirely, for time and for eternity.”