We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.

The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

Teach us, O God, that nothing is necessary to Thee. Were anything necessary to Thee that thing would be the measure of Thine imperfection: and how could we worship one who is imperfect? If nothing is necessary to Thee, then no one is necessary, and if no one, then not we. Thou dost seek us though Thou does not need us. We seek Thee because we need Thee, for in Thee we live and move and have our being. Amen.

O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen.

We are not revived because we sing; we sing because we are revived.

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.