After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.

Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey.

In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.

The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.

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.

Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.