If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

Never try to help God fulfill His word.

It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it, we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being which he or she cannot possibly give.

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.

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.