“Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.”

If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.

A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.

The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.

Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.

The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.

For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.

You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you’ve had a bunch of bad days and there’s different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.

Love is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

Brothers don’t necessarily have to say anything to each other – they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Invention is the most important product of man’s creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

I’m still exploring in a lot of ways. I don’t know myself completely.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

It’s always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements.