“Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.”

Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.

God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.

How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.

We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.

I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin… I appreciate the blessed fact of God’s forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.

As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.

The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.

Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.

I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ,

Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.

Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.

Put very simply, Satan’s power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates.

It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,

The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.

If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, ‘Hallelujah! Praise the Lord’ forever.

We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.

Most of us like thinking we are God’s only children…At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.

There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; The second is that the Spirit possesses you.

I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.

After many painful trials, which none can know,

The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself

As a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.