Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh....Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him.

Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.

It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.

He (God) may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is.