If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior

I have to get to the point of the absolute and unquestionable relationship that takes everything exactly as it comes from Him. God never guides us at some time in the future, but always here and now. Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.

Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.

Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee.'

Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.

Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.

It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes