If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

Anything that belittles or obliterates the holiness of God by a false view of the love of God, is untrue to the revelation of God given by Jesus Christ.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.

Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.