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.

God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.

The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.

I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.

Make converts to your own thoughts and opinions.