“Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God’s word fit in?”

The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.

God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.

The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God’s life in us expresses itself as God’s life, not as human life trying to be godly.

Our Lord’s first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.

Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

The Lord waits for us to offer him our failings so that he can help us experience his mercy.

I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.

This world is the first miracle God made. God has placed the grace of new wonders in our hands.

Be bold; be strong. The Lord your God is with you.

When I attain before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of ability left, and could say, ‘I used everything You gave me.

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.