When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?

I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

God not only wants to break the outer man...He wants our spirit and our soul...our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.

I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.