The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.

The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.

God aims first to renew man's darkened spirit by imparting life to it, because it is this spirit which God originally designed to receive His life and to commune with Him. God's intent after that is to work out from the spirit to permeate man's soul and body.

The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him. He explained to the astonished group that the hands attached to what they saw as his body belonged to the Lord, and he was thereby able to explain the Gospel.

God not only wants to break the outer man...He wants our spirit and our soul...our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.

From the evening I was saved, I began to live a new life, for the life of the eternal God had entered into me.

The fruit of the Spirit is . . . self-control