Prayer is an effort of will.

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.

Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.

The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.

We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

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.