Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.

See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.

Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.