“The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.”

We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.

Don’t read to remember; read to realize.

Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don’t neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.

The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.

God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.

The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.

Even when I was a kid, everything I had was the best.

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.

You know, missing someone can sometimes be the best thing for a writer.

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.