The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beholding God we become mirrors. You can always tell when someone has been beholding the glory of the Lord, because your inner spirit senses that he mirrors the Lord’s own character. Beware of anything that would spot or tarnish that mirror in you. It is almost always something good that will stain it- something good, but not what is best.

Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation... 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.

The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.

It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.

Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.

The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.

Faith never knows where it is being led, it knows and loves the One Who is leading. Faith is not resignation to a power we do not know; faith is committal to One Whose character we do know because it has been revealed to us in Jesus Christ.

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God.

Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.

The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.

The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.

God is patient with the process! Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.

Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.

I do everything right-handed - football, tennis, darts and golf - except for snooker.

There is one nickname that my mate wants me to have... it's The Ace. I'm happy for a campaign for people to start calling me that!

I got into pool tournaments when I was five, playing every weekend in competitions. Then one day I started playing snooker. I learnt by practising on my own, repeating the same shots again and again, and watching other players and copying what they did.

I visited a couple of schools where snooker is on the curriculum. They go in everyday and play snooker. In the future, all the top players will be coming from Asia and the Far East.

People see the way I play and the balls I pot and then sometimes think 'how does he miss?'

My self-belief has always been there but it is about managing it the right way.

You have to forget what has gone before, get on with the game and focus on that. You cannot afford to be affected and let things worry you.

Snooker has taken such a step down I am not sure it will recover unless five Ronnie O'Sullivans come along at the same time.

I don't feel people are that interested in snooker any more and the only thing that will get snooker back into the limelight is more controversy.

If you hit the table after missing a ball, you get fined. If you swear, you get fined. You can't even tweet what you're thinking without getting fined. Players can't show their personality and therefore fans can't relate to them.

It might be good to be taught the basics like your stance when you first start playing.

It is amazing to win an event but to do it with the best standard ever been known in a final is incredible.

I don't particularly want to be playing in front of five people again. The reason I practised so hard was to get out of that.

My aim is to win as many tournaments as I play in but some people absolutely love snooker.

I was getting sick of losing and watching other players winning all the titles on TV.

I know how much I put in and it does hurt when people say you are not trying.

Maybe I could be the playboy of snooker.

When you put your all in and people say 'he has given up,' that is hard to take.

Before I was going into tournaments and just hoping I would win one match. But now I'll go into tournaments expecting to do well and if I bring my best game I know I can win them and beat all the big players.

Will I be sensible and pay off the mortgage? Not a chance.

I want to be able to play fast and exciting snooker like my hero Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Hopefully I get to the point where I get paid to party and can give up snooker.

I play a lot quicker, in quite an attacking style, play a few little crazy shots sometimes that other players wouldn't take.

I think I am a lot more entertaining than most of the other players.

I always go to the Masters knowing I'm going to play well.

I've just got the mindset of really wanting to open the game up to new people. I kind of want to create a massive attention around snooker.

Older people like to dress older. I dress in more flamboyant, stylish.

The crowd lifts you and spurs you on. And I don't get rattled - that's my strength, I think.

I am the sort of player who can rattle off frame after frame when I am on a roll.

My Twitter account status used to say 'part-time playboy' on it, but I've taken that down now.

Joe Perry is always a big hurdle, he's always there in the later stages of a tournament. You have to be playing well to beat him, and if you do that you know you have a chance of winning the title.