“Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.”

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.

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.

The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!

Among other things, I saw in the body of one of these animalcules a bright and round corpuscle, placed near the head, and in which a very wonderful swift motion was to be seen, consisting of an alternate extension and contraction.

I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.