Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

Even before they married Chambers considered a partnership in ministry in which Biddy--who could take shorthand at 250 words per minute--would transcribe and type his sermons and lessons into written form. Chambers did not oppose glossolalia but criticized those who made it a test of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. " "No one was ever turned away from the door and whatever the person asked for whether money a winter overcoat or a meal was given.