Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.