“Spread out your petition before God, and then say, “Thy will, not mine, be done.” The sweetest lesson I have learned in God’s school is to let the Lord choose for me.”

The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord’s work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.

There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.

We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.

The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.

The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.

A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.

The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.

Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.

When God gave Christ to this world, He gave the best He had, and He wants us to do the same.

God doesn’t expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!

The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.

I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord’s people were divided.

When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.

Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow.

We really shouldn’t look like a church.’ I’ve heard that so much I want to vomit. ‘Why?’ I ask. ‘Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor’s office to look like a doctor’s office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?’

You don’t really get to choose who you fall in love with. Love chooses you.

Struggle is, at times, inevitable; survival is, most times, a choice.

What path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important.

I`d rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else.

People will talk about you when you’re down and out, and people will talk about you when you’re successful. You choose what matters to you.

I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

When I was a small boy, if we had a problem, we would fight about it with our fists. We wouldn’t shoot somebody, killing them or wounding them. That’s not hard to do. I would like people to put down the guns. If you have a problem, talk about it or fight about it.