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.

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

Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.

The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

Ask God for what you want, but you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing. When you draw near to God, you cease from asking for things."Your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him." Then, why ask? That you may get to know Him.

Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.