“Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.”

Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.

God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.

No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit

Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.

The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

We pray when there’s nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

The amount of stress in your life is determined by how much energy you expend resisting your life.

Being disciplined and determined are my fitness mantra.

Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy.

The level of consciousness you choose to tune in to each moment of each day will determine the quality of your experience of the world.

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he’s tested. When a person gets up and says ‘I can still do it’, he’s a champion.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.