Only those who are subject to authority can be authority.

Suppose, for example, a brother has a brilliant but unbroken intellect. He may come to the meetings of a local church, but he is untouched. Unless he meets someone whose mind is sharper than his, he will not be helped. He will analyze the thoughts of the preacher and reject them as useless and meaningless. Months and years may pass by, and it is impossible for anything to touch his spirit. His spirit is stonewalled by his intellectual mind.

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

No one but an aviator has a right to look down on others.

Bible Christianity is what I love … a Christianity practical and pure, which teaches holiness, humility, repentance and faith in Christ; and which after summing up all the Evangelical graces, declares that the greatest of these is charity .

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.

Each thinks he or she is more righteous than the other. Each

Godly relationships flourish best between two humble people who acknowledge their weaknesses and sins and their need for grace.

Humility enables us to see our own sin before we focus on the sin and weaknesses of another.