“The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.”

God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.

God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already

Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.

If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.

A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.

The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.

I am a deeply superficial person.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

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.

I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.

Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.