Yet partial obedience is disobedience.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

All I ever have to be is what you made me.

All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!

Sometimes these things happen. God knows what He's doing and we just have to trust His plan.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it.

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.

I, personally, was never kept from something I wanted, nor had forced upon me something I was opposed to. How did I manage it? I submitted my will to God. He wants me to be sick — well, then, so do I. He wants me to choose something. Then I choose it. He wants me to desire something, I desire it. He wants me to get something, I want the same; or he doesn't want me to get it, and I concur.

Trust God to run the universe without you.

If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.1 —HENRY T. BLACKABY

God clearly called me into the preaching and teaching ministry, principally in hostile arenas. An odd call for a shy individual, I would think! But God does it his way.