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

The most important thing you think is what you think about God.

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.

If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.

If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.