God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used.

The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the 'poor in spirit.'

To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.

There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.