Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

With Christ, it is not how much we give, but what we do not give that is the real test.

I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused and on the right goal. At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you. Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.

Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.

To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.

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.