The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.

If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Artificiality is one curse that will drop away the moment we kneel at Jesus' feet and surrender ourselves to His meekness. Then we will not care what people think of us so long as God is pleased. Then what we are will be everything; what we appear will take its place far down the scale of interest for us. Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.

Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity.