“God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him”

Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.

All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.

Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me the glorious lessons of His sufficiency, and each day I am carried onward with no feeling of strain or fear of collapse.

It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies — whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.

But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.

When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.

Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.

Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.

If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.

Once we surrender our mind to God completely, He will take care of us in every way.

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

I’ll never get tired of asking god to guide me.

I cannot recite Hanuman chalisa at home and wear a skull cap outside just to attract votes. It is my responsibility that, without losing my identity, I must ensure a peaceful environment for people of all faiths so that they can follow their beliefs.

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

But I don’t necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.