Can Jesus Christ see the agony of His soul in us? He can't unless we are so closely identified with Him that we have His view concerning the people for whom we pray. May we learn to intercede so wholeheartedly that Jesus Christ will be completely and overwhelmingly satisfied with us as intercessors.

If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.