Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression.

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.