“The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…”

There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; The second is that the Spirit possesses you.

Live in the Acts of the Apostles, and every day you will see some miracle worked by the power of the living God.

God is more eager to answer than we are to ask.

But to stir up the gift and allow God’s Spirit to disturb us and disturb us and disturb us until we yield and yield and yield and the possibility in God’s mind for us becomes an established fact in our lives, with the rivers in evidence meeting the need of a dying world.

You must be yielded to the Word of God. The Word will work out love in our hearts, and when practical love is in our hearts, there is no room to boast about ourselves. We see ourselves as nothing when we get lost in this divine love.

Whatever God has done for other men, He can do for me.

Great triumphs can only come out of great trials

The works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my father.’ [Jn 14.12] God wants us all to have an audacity of faith that dares to believe for all that is set forth in the word.

You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself.

Desire God, and you will have desires from God.

Praise is God’s sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life’s activities.

Without faith, you have nothing. You cannot be saved without it. You cannot be healed without it.

Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times.

You have to bring your mind to the Word of God and not try to bring the Word of God to your mind.

You must every day make higher ground. You must deny yourself to make progress with God.

God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realizing the glory of the cross that foreshadows the crown.

I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.

I let the other reviewers eat the bad meals, so that I didn’t have to, and my wife and I went out only for the good stuff. And I wrote mostly positive reviews. Not only. But mostly. And, ooooh, it felt an awful lot better.

When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.

The awful realization of our mortality

You wait and wait for the next step, and when you get to the next step, it’s awful.

In the end we are all sacked and it’s always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.

I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.