“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.”

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.

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.

God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments.

Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.

God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don’t have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’

I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.