Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there.

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST