It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .

To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.

Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.

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

We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the terribly offensive sins of the fleshthat shock them, but the awful nature of the pride of their own hearts opposing Jesus Christ. When they see themselves in the light of the Lord, the shame, the horror, and desperate conviction hit home for them.

No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST