Brother Lawrence expressed the highest moral wisdom when he testified that if he stumbled and fell he turned at once to God and said, 'O Lord, this is what you may expect of me if You leave me to myself.' He then accepted forgiveness, thanked God, and gave himself no further concerns about the matter.

God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.

God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.

Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for things and are impatient with anything that refuses to give an account of itself. The philosopher and the scientist will admit that there is much that they do not know; but that is quite another thing from admitting there is something which they can never know, which indeed they have no technique for discovering.

Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.

The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest.