I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.

Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible spiritually to God for other people?

Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.

When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart.

The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.