Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.

Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.

Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.