The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

... God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.

The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do.

The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.

The reason some of us are such poor specimens of Christianity is because we have no Almighty Christ. We have Christian attributes and experiences, but there is no abandonment to Jesus Christ.

Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it, we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being which he or she cannot possibly give.

Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.

If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?