The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.

Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.

The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say that it is no use to go on. Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.