Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.

Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.

If your faith is in experiences, anything that happens is likely to upset that faith.

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?