If we were never depressed we would not be alive - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression.

The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a saint is humility-Yes, all those things and other evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I have no right to judge.

We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the conception we have in our minds of prayer. If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly; we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is.

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.