Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.

Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.

Disciples [deep people] are not manufactured wholesale. They are produced one by one, because someone has taken the pains to discipline, to instruct and enlighten, to nurture and train one that is younger.

We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.

Faith never knows where it is being led, or it would not be faith. True faith is content to travel under sealed orders.