The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.
For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him.
If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.
We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.
If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.
Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises of God.
Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.
People say that it is so hard to bring Jesus Christ and present him before the lives of men today. Of course it is. It is so hard that it is impossible except by the power of the indwelling Holy Ghost.
The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.
An unguarded strength is a double weakness.
Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.
God’s training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God’s work in our own way.
A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.
Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.
Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.
Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.
If sin rules in me, God’s life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.
Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.