The true mark of the saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

Come unto Me." When you hear those words you will know that something must happen in you before you can come. The Holy Spirit will show you what you have to do, anything at all that will put the axe at the root of the thing which is preventing you from getting through. You will never get further until you are willing to do that one thing. The Holy Spirit will locate the one impregnable thing in you, but He cannot budge it unless you are willing to let Him.

Are you seeking great things for yourself? Have you said, "Oh, Lord, completely fill me with Your Holy Spirit"? If God does not, it is because you are not totally surrendered to Him; there is something you still refuse to do.

If you have never used your mind to place yourself before God, begin to do it now.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

Is the Son of God praying in me, bringing honor to the Father, or am I dictating my demands to Him?

God never tells us to give up things just for the sake of giving them up, but He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having, namely, life with Himself.

If anything is a mystery to you and it is coming in between you and God, never look for the explanation in your intellect, look for it in your disposition, it is that which is wrong.

Have you deliberately committed your will to Jesus Christ? It is a transaction of the will, not of emotion; any positive emotion that results is simply a superficial blessing arising out of the transaction.

as long as our eyes are focused on our own personal holiness, we will never even get close to the full reality of redemption.

There is a God we want, and there is a God who is. They are not the same God. The turning point of our lives is when we stop seeking the God we want and start seeking the God who is.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another.