It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him.
Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.
The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.
Where God is not glorified, that place is sick
Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient and beautiful abode.
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.