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

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.

Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead,

If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.

True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.

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.

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.

Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.