The Christian's life in all its aspects-intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness-is supernatural; only the Spirit can initiate and sustain it. So apart from him, not only will there be no lively believers and no lively congregations, there will be no believers and no congregations at all.

We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.

Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that this is a decision that God need not make in any individual case, can one begin to grasp the biblical view of grace.

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.