Prayer is an effort of will.

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.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.

I have to get to the point of the absolute and unquestionable relationship that takes everything exactly as it comes from Him. God never guides us at some time in the future, but always here and now. Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.