We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.

Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.

Jesus said, 'Go ... and make disciples,' not converts to your opinions.

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.

For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him