Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different.

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."

Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are experiencing as prayer and so condemn themselves for not praying.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.

The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.