I can't expect God's blessing on my work unless I do it God's way.

Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either".

I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.

Trying harder doesn't work for me. Slowly I've learned to pray for God's help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

Repentance and faith must be your daily lifestyle. Why? Because it lays you low and lifts you up at the same time.

We love us and we have a wonderful plan for our lives! We have a dream. The problem is that it is not the Lord's.

If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all…. One reason why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

Kneel for five or ten minutes and welcome the presence of Jesus. You may not think it will make any difference to kneel when you pray, but try it anyway. Then consider the difference it may have made. As you pray, give the day up to God, renewing your invitation to him to be with you each moment.

The right thing would be simply releasing it all and saying, "All right. God knows. I'm living in his world. He can give me what he wants. I will not put these things in the place of God.

The people who love God with all their heart are those whose will is totally devoted to what is good for God.

Death to self is submitting all your desires to God. This abandonment of the self to God is the way to experience abundance in God. It means that, in God's hands, we are content for him to take charge of outcomes

We can practice this through spiritual disciplines such as fasting, which can help us stay sweet and strong when we do not get what we want. If we can cheerily give up Twinkies, and peanuts, and steak, and things of that sort for a while, this will bring us to the place where we can say, "Lord, you're quite sufficient for me. If you want to take it away forever, that would be fine.