Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?
When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.
Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.
It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it is cold and hard we fling it at the heads of the religious people who don’t agree with us.
Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.
Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.
Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.
Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.
Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.
Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!
When you fear God you fear nothing else!
To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time!
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.
Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man exactly like Himself, and the characteristic of the Son of God is self-expenditure.
A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.
We read some things in the Bible three hundred and sixty-five times and they mean nothing to us, then all of a sudden we see what God means, because in some particular we have obeyed God, and instantly His nature is opened up.
The historic idea that the devil tempts men had this remarkable effect, it produced the man of iron who fought; the modern idea of blaming his heredity or his circumstances produces the man who gives in at once.
Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.
The good is always the enemy of the best.