Of all persons the Christian should be best prepared for whatever the New Year brings. He has dealt with life at its source. In Christ he has disposed of a thousand enemies that other men must face alone and unprepared. He can face his tomorrow cheerful and unafraid because yesterday he turned his feet into the ways of peace and today he lives in God. The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed... The heart's fierce effort to protect itself from every slight, to shield its touchy honor from the bad opinion of friend and enemy, will never let the mind have rest.

What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.

Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.

What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an awareness of the divine? What good is it if we've lost a sense of the Presence and the ability to retreat within our own hearts and meet God in the garden?

The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.