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

Our god is the thing, or person, which we think most precious, for whom we would make the greatest sacrifice, and who moves our heart with the warmest love.

There is nothing–no circumstance, no trouble, no testing–that can ever touch me until.

The crowd one day cried, “Crucify him,” and the whole world united to murder the Son of God, because in their ignorance they knew Him not.

There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me.

When we get to the end of ourselves, we get to the beginning of God.

A throne is God’s purpose for you; a cross is God’s path for you; faith is God’s plan for you.

Prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done.

Look up into His lovely face and as you behold Him,

God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit.

If it has come that far, it has come with great purpose.

He will transform you into His likeness. You do the beholding.

The higher the pinnacle of blessing, authority, and publicity he has attained by grace.

The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.

Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own soul.

We will only advance in our evangelistic work as fast and as far as we advance on our knees.

Let me say to you that truth has always lived with the minority; what the majority says at a given moment is usually wrong.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.

The only true disability is a crushed spirit

In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on (or agree) to abolish every politics aiming at (“visant à”, Fr.) expansion or hegemony.

. If you set a trap for others, you will get caught in it yourself. If you roll a boulder down on others, it will crush you instead.

Walk towards the light, put it on your head and then crush your shadow that hides under your feet.