Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.

Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.