"Watch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him."

"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."

"Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion."

"The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality."

"We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff of life, and this is where we have to prove our mettle. A false Christianity takes us up on the mount and we want to stay there. But what about the devil-possessed world? Oh, let it go to hell! We are having a great time up here."

"Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship."

"It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally but of working wonders in a man's disposition."

"A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last."

"There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes."

"Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested."

"Prayer is God's answer to our poverty not a power we exercise to obtain an answer."

"God did not direct His call to Isaiah- Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude."

"Paul was devoted to a Person, not a cause."

"We act like pagans in a crisis--only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God."

"Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind."

"You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside."

"I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace."

"Human nature if it healthy demands excitement and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics He makes no passionless saints."

"The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience."

"Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result."

"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."

"We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us."

"The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sickness is a fact usable by both God and the devil."

"Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I've lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit's vision, Gazing on the Crucified."

"If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart."

"Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it."

"God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we are in a very elementary condition of grace."

"The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality."

"Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom."

"The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God."

"When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people."

"If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality."

"Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us."

"If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists that we have to be passionately filled with the right emotions."

"Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion."

"Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ."

"We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk."

"God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul was not conscious of himself. He was recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered, and separated by God for one purpose--to proclaim the gospel of God."

"What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him."

"Our ordinary and reasonable service to God may actually compete against our total surrender to Him."

"The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things."

"If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask then He will give them but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself."

"The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ."

"There are vast areas of stubbornness and ignorance the Holy Spirit has to reveal in each of us, but it can only be done when Jesus gets us alone...Jesus cannot teach us anything until we quiet all our intellectual questions and get alone with Him."

"God's friendship is with people who know their poverty."

"I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God."

"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time."

"Remember whose you are and whom you serve."

"Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man."

"We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours."