Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

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

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

I have to get to the point of the absolute and unquestionable relationship that takes everything exactly as it comes from Him. God never guides us at some time in the future, but always here and now. Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.

We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

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