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

Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict.

By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!

An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.

Take this as the secret of Christ’s life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you.

Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.

Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.

Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.

Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.

I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.

May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.

Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.

With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.

May we see the Lord in all things-way, truth, and life are all found in knowing Him. May we really meet the Son of God and let Him live in us. Amen.

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.

What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.

It’s absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.

I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.

You hear all these stories about, ‘There’s one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and stay there.’ To see people cheering for me and when they say my name, it’s just crazy. It’s still crazy to me.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.