We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.

We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.

It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes

Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.

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

God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.