The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

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.

The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.