How many people have you made homesick for God?

Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.

If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.

I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.

God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.

God never forces a person's will into surrender, and He never begs. He patiently waits until that person willingly yields to Him. True surrender is a matter of being 'united together [with Jesus] in the likeness of His death' (Romans 6:5) until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him. And after you surrender--then what? Your entire life should be characterized by an eagerness to maintain unbroken fellowship and oneness with God.