In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.

Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.

Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it. We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group.

The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.