Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.

Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.

Nothing that comes from God will minister to my pride of self-congratulation. If I am tempted to be complacent and to feel superior because I have had a remarkable vision or an advanced spiritual experience, I should go at once to my knees and repent of the whole thing. I have fallen victim to the enemy.

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

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit.

Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient and beautiful abode.