Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in

The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly.

The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.