How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.

Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.