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.

When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

Spiritual Christians look upon the world not as a playground but as a battleground.

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.