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

You are never used of God to bring blessing until God has opened your eyes and made you see things as they are.

If you look up into His face and say, “Yes, Lord, whatever it costs,”

You will be that inevitably–but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God’s Son.

We had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord.

What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him.

No man can use his Bible with power unless he has the character of Jesus in his heart.

The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.

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.

Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.

All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.

Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe’s economy remains unable to grow.

They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

I didn’t have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.