“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 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.

We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.

Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.

The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, ‘Here comes my food.!

Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.

Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.

Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.

To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!

Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God’s will.

We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.

Just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness.

Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better.

A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.

For me, it’s always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.

I’ve been musically inclined since I picked up an instrument in the fourth grade. I just really appreciate music.

Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

I think it’s so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed ‘Lady Macbeth.’

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.

It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.