The only basis on which to work for God is an esteemed appreciation of his deliverance.

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

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

Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. God’s experiments always succeed