At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.

If you do all the talking when you pray, how will you ever hear God's answers?

Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is false to the cross of Christ and on the side of the devil.

I don't want the world to define God for me. I want the Holy Spirit to reveal God to me.

Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.

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.

The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.