The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.

Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.

The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould

Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.