Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in the bottom of the barrel, in dark tunnels.

The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?