Faith never knows where it is being led, it knows and loves the One Who is leading. Faith is not resignation to a power we do not know; faith is committal to One Whose character we do know because it has been revealed to us in Jesus Christ.

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.

God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.

The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.

Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference