If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.

No prayer!-No faith!-No Christ in the heart. Little prayer!-Little faith!-Little Christ in the heart. Increasing prayer!-Increasing faith!-Increasing Christ in the heart!. Much prayer!-Much faith!-Much Christ in the heart! Praying always!-Faith always!-Christ always!

But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.

There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.

Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.

And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing.