It is as much our duty to live in the beauty of the presence of God on some mount of transfiguration until we become white with Christ as it is for us to go down where the needy people grope and grovel, and groan and lift them to new life.

The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.

There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.

If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.

I have tasted a thrill in fellowship with God which has made anything discordant with God disgusting.

I feel simply carried along each hour, doing my part in a plan which is far beyond myself. […] My part is to live this hour in continuous inner conversation with God and in perfect responsiveness to His will. This seems to be all I need to think about.

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.