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.'

People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own.

Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were 'normal.' Nothing is normal while sin and lust and death roam the world, pouncing upon one and another till the whole population has been destroyed.

To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.