“Deep down in the Christian’s life, always and all the time, there is to be a “no” to every demand that the flesh may make for recognition, and every demand that the flesh may make for approval.”

It is faith which turns distress into singing.

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

We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it.

It’s Satan’s delight to tell me that once he’s got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God.

Give up the struggle and the fight; relax in the omnipotence of the Lord Jesus.

Many people are being persuaded that they cannot be considered intelligent or well educated if they insist on the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of the Book.

The immense step from the Babe at Bethlehem to the living, reigning triumphant Lord Jesus, returning to earth for His own people – that is the glorious truth proclaimed throughout Scripture.

The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependant upon God, and know it.

He does the transforming. There is no short-cut to holiness.

As the bells ring out the joys of Christmas, may we also be alert for the final trumpet that will announce His return, when we shall always be with Him.

There is no revival possible in any fellowship without a price being paid.

The plan which God has mapped out for you and prepared for you, is the greatest agency in His hands to conform You to His character and to His will.

Before we can pray, “Lord, Thy Kingdom come,” we must be willing to pray, “My Kingdom go.”

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.

He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.

I believe that the sphere of service, your career.

All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I’m feeling at the time, whatever direction I’m heading in.

All pitchers are born pitchers.

The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to one pitch of definition and sometimes to another, so as to see down into different depths through the great millstone of the world.

Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.

Nature is none other than God in things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; whence all of God is in all things. Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.