I didn't have any looks, I didn't have any talent, and it was easy for me to say to the Lord, "I don't have anything." If you only knew where I came from ... this leetle-bitty town with no more than twelve hundred people in it. So ... anything I am today, He is the one who has done it [ellipses in source].

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Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

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The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels.

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God is not looking for gold vessels or silver vessels. He is looking for willing vessels

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I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.

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Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself.

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God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.

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When Jesus died on the cross and cried out, 'It is finished!' He not only died for our sins, but for our diseases too.

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A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous.

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The greatest human attainment in all the world is for a life to be so surrendered to Him that the name of God Almighty will be glorified through that life.

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