We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

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.

If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence.

Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.

If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.

God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.