“Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.”

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.

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.

Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.

Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.

Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.

Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.

God not only wants to break the outer man…He wants our spirit and our soul…our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.

A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.

With complete consecration comes perfect peace.

The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!

Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.

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.

The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.

It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one’s personal happiness.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game.

I’ve been homeless. I’ve worked at 7-Eleven.

I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.

It’s always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone’s seen the last one.

Why it’s been left to me to smooth things over, I don’t know. Dennis Rodman, of all people.

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.

I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”