God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.

Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

Jesus Christ demands the same unrestrained, adventurous spirit in those who have placed their trust in Him that the natural man exhibits. If a person is ever going to do anything worthwhile, there will be times when he must risk everything by his leap in the dark.

God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.