It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.

Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.