When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.

Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having - viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life.

If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.

We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.