We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them

All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.

It is a serious mistake to judge God within the narrow limits of our own understanding and abilities.

Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.

That man loves God who puts his own life in harmony with him, and who serves his fellow men as though his life depends upon it, as indeed it does.

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.

When the Lord starts out to make an oak tree, he takes a hundred years to do it in, but he can make a pumpkin in 90 days. More or less life is like that. We must choose whether we desire to become and oak tree or a pumpkin.