We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.

The historic idea that the devil tempts men had this remarkable effect, it produced the man of iron who fought; the modern idea of blaming his heredity or his circumstances produces the man who gives in at once.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

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.

Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.

God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.

The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things.