“Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.”

Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God’s view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life.

At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!

Often Satan injects pride into the believer’s spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God’s work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.

A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.

God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.

We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.

Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.

God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.

How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.

We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.

I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin… I appreciate the blessed fact of God’s forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.

As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.

The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.

Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.

I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ,

Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.

I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”

As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.

The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. … That’s a pretty scary thought.

Every time you think a thought it ‘registers’, and comes back to you according to the vibrations and wave lengths sent out from your mind.

But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.

I’m not who you think I am, I had said to T.J. the last time I’d seen him. Maybe I wasn’t who I’d thought I was either.

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.