“For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour’s feet.”

First of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far.

Have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.

We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds.

Prayer opens the channel between a soul and God; prayerlessness closes it.

How far must a Christian go in order to be saved? Only to the Cross. But if I am disobeying God in my life and cast off His law.

Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult.

It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.

And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.

Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly.

When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.

And every demand that the flesh may make for vindication. Always the Christian must bear about in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?

It comes to the one who rests upon the promises of the Word. It comes to the man who lives by faith as if in the actual possession of the answer to his prayer, although the enemy is still around him.

Let’s keep our chins up and our knees down – we’re on the victory side.

It is faith which turns distress into singing.

Obey God in all things today! Drive out the enemy!

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.