An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.
Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.
Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.
The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and woman or child, in turn, is challenged by God to make his free choice between doing God's will and refusing to do it.
I wonder if to stare into the face of God will drive me crazy. (I wonder who would blink first.)
Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'
It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
