“Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.”

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.

Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.

Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.

Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.

Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.

God not only wants to break the outer man…He wants our spirit and our soul…our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.

A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.

With complete consecration comes perfect peace.

The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!

Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.

The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.

It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one’s personal happiness.

People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.

An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.

In inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observe.

And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.

All abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.

All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.

You can’t accuse the creator of The Boondocks, … Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.

Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator. If a work doesn’t express the composers own personal point of view, his own ideas, then it doesn’t, in my opinion, even deserve to be born.