Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.

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

God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance.

No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.

Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.