“Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.”

Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?

Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.

The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.

Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!

The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.

Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.

All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.

Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.

We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.

The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, ‘Here comes my food.!

Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.

Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.

Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.

To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!

Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God’s will.

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions…

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.

In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).

I’ve had some wonderful love affairs and some that didn’t work out. I don’t want to dwell on that and I don’t want to put people down, but I think all the fabulous places I’ve been, the wonderful things that have happened for me, the great people I’ve met – that ought to make a story.

[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.

Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living.