A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!

Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.

Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.

All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.

Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

Joy is the great note all through the Bible. We have the notion of joy that arises from good spirits or good health, but the miracle of joy of God has nothing to do with a man's life or his circumstances or the condition he is in. Jesus Christ does not come to a man and say, 'Cheer up.' He plants within a man the miracle of the joy of God's own nature.

Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.