Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.

God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.

If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.

In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical faculty is an intellectual one, not a moral one. If criticism becomes a habit it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyse spiritual force. The only person who can criticise human beings is the Holy Spirit.