Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord.

With Christ, it is not how much we give, but what we do not give that is the real test.

The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.

God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.