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.

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

How many people have you made homesick for God?

But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

Trust completely in God, and when He brings you to a new opportunity of adventure, offering it to you, see that you take it.

If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.