Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.
Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don't want to be heavenly-minded while they live.
The tendency of the world is down - God's path is up.
Whatever you love more than God is your idol.
God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.