Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.

In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze the spiritual force... Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God. Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. It is impossible to develop the characteristics of a saint and maintain a critical attitude.

Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.