We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.

At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.

Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.

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

It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

How many people have you made homesick for God?

If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.