...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home.

The heavens are not filled with hostility. The sky does not express a frown. When I look up I do not contemplate a face of brass, but the face of infinite good will. Yet when I was a child, many a picture has made me think of God as suspicious, inhumanly watchful, always looking round the corner to catch me at the fall. That "eye," placed in the sky of many a picture, and placed there to represent God, filled my heart with chilling fear. . . . Heaven overflows with good will toward us! Our God not only wishes good, he wills it!

All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.

If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.