All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.

In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.

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

The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

Let me never become a slave to crowds.

This is what you are here for: to glorify God and enjoy Him thoroughly and forever, telling the universe how great God is.

When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.