A spiritual Christian should welcome any burden which the Lord brings his way.

Good is not always God's will, but God's will is always good.

Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.

The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the members are active. He [God] appointed some to take oversight of the work so that it might be carried on efficiently. It was never His thought that the majority of the believers should devote themselves exclusively to secular affairs and leave church matters to a group of spiritual specialists.

Often the children of God cannot rise up to answer the Lord's call to service simply because, though their physical condition is good, their feelings are low, cold, and reluctant. Or even when their emotions are quite high, passionate, and willing, they find themselves unable to serve the Lord because now the body reacts lazily. The disciples found themselves in precisely that situation in the Garden of Gethsemane: "the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak"

A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.

The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.