If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

There is only one relationship that matters, and that is your personal relationship to a personal Redeemer and Lord. Let everything else go, but maintain that at all cost, and God will fulfill His purpose through your life. (This includes meeting the needs of your heart.) One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purposes, and yours may be that life.

Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.

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.