Artificiality is one curse that will drop away the moment we kneel at Jesus' feet and surrender ourselves to His meekness. Then we will not care what people think of us so long as God is pleased. Then what we are will be everything; what we appear will take its place far down the scale of interest for us. Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.

To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

...revivals (or any other spiritual gifts and graces) come only to those who want them badly enough. It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be.

Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.

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

Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one

We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.