“The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.”

In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.

The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God.

Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray. It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.

Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

The amount of God’s love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

There are no ‘ifs’ in God’s Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don’t let me go mad by poking about outside it.

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

Indifference was our greatest enemy.

Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn’t logical.

Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Let’s never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let’s do as General Eisenhower does: let’s never waste a minute thinking about people we don’t like.

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

Fear and guilt are your only enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By deciding to.

I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.