The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.

God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

Jesus said, 'Go ... and make disciples,' not converts to your opinions.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing- that He is preparing and equipping us for some extraordinary work in the future. But as we grow in His grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, at this very moment. If we have God’s assurance behind us, the most amazing strength becomes ours, and we learn to sing, glorifying Him even in the ordinary days and ways of life.

The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.