“The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.”

Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.

We consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us.

God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.

Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead,

If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.

True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.

The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.

Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?

Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.

The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.

Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!

The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.

Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.

All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.

Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything.

I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

Success is the child of audacity.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don’t know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.