It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself.

We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.

When a man says he must develop a holy life alone with God, he is of no more use to his fellow men: he puts himself on a pedestal, away from the common run of men.........If we are abandoned to Jesus, we have no ends of our own to serve.

The Bible is not a book that you can open and say, 'Now, Lord, put some magic into my soul that will open up the meaning of this book.' There is only one way really to understand the Word, and that is through wrestling with the circumstances and happenings of life.