The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

To love to preach is one thing; to love to whom you preach is quite another.

So let me put it thus: Hold on to your principles of morality and ethics, use your willpower to the limit, pay great heed to every noble, uplifting desire that is in you; but realize that these things alone are not enough, that they will never bring you to the desired place. We have to realize that all our best is totally inadequate, that a spiritual battle must be fought in a spiritual manner.

Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.

A man who imagines that because he has a head full of knowledge that he is sufficient for these things had better start learning again. 'Who is sufficient for these things?' What are you doing? You are not simply imparting information, you are dealing with souls, you are dealing with pilgrims on the way to eternity, you are dealing with matters not only of life and death in this world, but with eternal destiny.

Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.