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

No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will.

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

Sanctification means the impartation of the Holy qualities of Jesus Christ. It is His patience, His love, His holiness, His faith, His purity, His godliness, that is manifested in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy; it is drawing from Jesus the holiness that was manifested in Him, and He manifests it in me.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.