What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an awareness of the divine? What good is it if we've lost a sense of the Presence and the ability to retreat within our own hearts and meet God in the garden?

What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.

We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work.

Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.

God is speaking. He is, by His nature, continuously articulate. He fills the world with His speaking voice.

Without worship, we go about miserable.