“Discipline says, ‘I need to.’ Duty says, ‘I ought to.’ Devotion says, ‘I want to.’”

When you educate without the Holy Spirit, you only get a clever devil.

Prayer can do anything God can do and God can do anything!

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.

You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.

Everybody needs a hero. Jesus is mine.

God doesn’t need us to give Him our money. He owns everything. Tithing is God’s way to grow Christians.

And dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

The reason that so many times we don’t win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

A healthy person can accept criticism.

But the consecration that doesn’t reach your purse has not reached your heart.

I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.

When you have His joy in your heart, it doesn’t necessarily mean your pain or hurt will be taken away. It means you’ll be able to bear it.

A mans religion will rise no higher than his concept of God.

A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus.

A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.

In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament.

Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.

Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.

I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.

Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord’s Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him and, as a result, profound inner inquiry blossoms forth.

Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.

Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.