Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.

We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.

Isaiah was so attuned to God, because of the great crisis he had just endured, that the call of God penetrated his soul. The majority of us cannot hear anything but ourselves. And we cannot hear anything God says. But to be brought to the place where we can hear the call of God is to be profoundly changed.

Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.