Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it. We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

I do not think I exaggerate when I say that some of us put our offering in the plate with a kind of triumphant bounce as much as to say: "There - now God will feel better!" I am obliged to tell you that God does not need anything you have. He does not need a dime of your money. It is your own spiritual welfare at stake in such matters as these. You have the right to keep what you have all to yourself - but it will rust and decay, and ultimately ruin you.

Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?

If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.

Oh, if we would only remember who God is!

The Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.

God dwells in the heart where praise is.