“There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me.”

Prayer releases the grip of Satan’s power; prayerlessness increases it.

That is why prayer is so exhausting and so vital. If we believed it, the prayer meeting would be as full as the church.

The Christian life doesn’t get easier as one gets older.

Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.

There’s some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do.

First of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far.

Have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.

We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds.

Prayer opens the channel between a soul and God; prayerlessness closes it.

How far must a Christian go in order to be saved? Only to the Cross. But if I am disobeying God in my life and cast off His law.

Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult.

It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.

And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.

Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly.

When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.

And every demand that the flesh may make for vindication. Always the Christian must bear about in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus.