Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.
Prayer is an effort of will.
God's end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now.
We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.
No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man exactly like Himself, and the characteristic of the Son of God is self-expenditure.