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

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.

The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

I have chosen you!’ Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.

Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.

Trust God, and do the next thing.

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

The greatest test of a man’s character is his tongue.

God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.

We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.