If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.
We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.
Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.
All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.
The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ.
God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.
Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ...
The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.
We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.
No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.