Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee.'

But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.

If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.