The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

Feelings too must be renovated: old ones removed in many cases, or at least thoroughly modified, and new ones installed or at least heightened into a new prominence.

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!

It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the executive center of the self.

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.