• God frequently has to knock the bottom out of your experience as his saint to get you in direct contact with himself. God wants you to understand that it is a life of faith, not a life of emotional enjoyment of his blessings.

  • Behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

  • If I hesitate to obey, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with God, namely, myself

  • The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

  • It is important to avoid the fruitless deeds of darkness.

  • The best way to know God's will is to say, I will to God.

  • We must make sure that we are living in such Harmony with God that as we proclaim his truth he can create in others those things which he alone can do.

  • Lord let the attraction to you come from the message not from the messengers. Prov18:2 Mat 10:20

  • Self pity creates for me my own cozy world within the world, and God will not be allowed to move me from it because of my fear of being frost bitten.

  • We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

  • We should give God the same place in our hearts that he holds in the universe.

  • He who lives within us will fulfill his final purpose for us.

  • It is not what we know that brings salvation, but whom we know. Knowing Christ is knowing God.

  • God's word is not just information it's transformation.

  • Paul's prayer to the Colossians understand Gods will, gain spiritual wisdom, please and honor God, bear good fruit, grow in the knowledge of God, be filled with God's strength, have great endurance and patience, stay full of Christ's joy, give thanks always.

  • Our culture pursues pleasure it does not except limits on its passions. Sadly such lack of restraint has ruined countless lives.

  • We are called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that our lives produce a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for ourselves. God is getting us to a place where he can use us. Let him do what he wants!

  • The higher up the scale of moral excellence a person goes, the more intense the opposition to Jesus Christ.

  • Don't let anybody judge you. You are responsible to Christ and Christ alone.

  • False humility is self centered. True humility is God centered.

  • Great expectation on our part honors God. James 5:16

  • Be gluttonous, savor the Savior revelation 19 party

  • I will not fear evil tidings, my heart is steady, trusting in you. Psalm 91:10

  • It is a privilege to bend our knees on earth to reach God in heaven.

  • Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence.