Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him.

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

I have found God to be cordial and generous and in every way easy to live with.

I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any touch from the Holy Spirit! All that religious activity and the dear people will not know anything better until the great and terrible day when our self-employed talents are burned with fire and only that which was wrought by the Holy Ghost will stand forever!

If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty.

The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.

I'm not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me - he's got judo I never heard of. But he can't handle the One to whom I'm joined; he can't handle the One to whom I'm united; he can't handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature.