It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.
God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.
Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.
Never run away with the idea that it doesn’t matter much what we believe or think; it does. What we believe and think, we are; not what we say we believe and think, but what we really do believe and think, we are; there is no divorce at all.
All that Our Lord heeds in a man’s life is the relationship of worth to His Father.
Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?
The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.
The crisis will reveal whether we have been practicing or not.
It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God’s sight than to appear lovely to man’s eyes but lame to God’s.
If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.
A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.
The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.
A ready person never needs to get ready.
Begin to know Him now, and finish never.
We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.
The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.
Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim – not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.
The men with God’s ‘go’ in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer.