The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?

As Christians we are not out for our own cause at all, we are out for the cause of God, which can never be our cause. We do not know what God is after, but we have to maintain our relationship with Him whatever happens.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference

One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. God’s experiments always succeed