The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person ...... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.

The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.

Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.