"When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality."

"If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen."

"It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual."

"One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it."

"We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are, it may be an indication of how wicked we really are."

"He comes where He commands us to leave."

"The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes."

"Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above."

"We pray pious blether our will is not in it and then we say God does not answer we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask."

"Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you."

"As we draw on the grace of God He increases voluntary poverty all along the line. Always give the best you have got every time; never think about who you are giving it to; let other people take it or leave it as they choose. Pour out the best you have, and always be poor. Never reserve anything; never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives."

"Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer."

"The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second, immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor."

"When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us."

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

"Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket--to be so totally insignificant that no one remembers you even if they think of those you served? Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted--not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?"

"One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God."

"One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body."

"Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it."

"Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an understanding of God. Jesus Christ said that when the Holy Spirit came He would convict of sin, and when the Holy Spirit rouses the conscience and brings him into the presence of God, it is not his relationship with men that bothers him, but his relationship with God."

"If we were never depressed we should not be alive, it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed."

"Pray because you have a Father not because it quietens you and give Him time to answer."

"Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that; you are so infirm, you cannot concentrate your mind,' etc. Never allow bodily infirmities to hinder you obeying the commands of Jesus."

"Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning."

"The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when you are "in the soup of actual circumstances."

"A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord."

"You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it."

"The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude."

"As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead."

"It is one thing to follow God's way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another thing if the road marked out for you by God requires becoming a 'doormat' under other people's feet."

"The call of God is a call according to the nature of God; where we go in obedience to that call depends entirely on the providential circumstances which God engineers, and is not of any moment. The danger is to fit the call of God into the idea of our own discernment and say, "God called me there. If we say so and stick to it, then it is good-bye to the development of the life of God in us."

"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."

"Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying shut the door and talk to God in secret."

"Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says-I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken "toys, but as our Father."

"You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to "clear the numberless ascensions* in about two minutes."

"At heart men are antagonistic to the lordship of Jesus Christ. It is not antagonism to creeds or points of view, but antagonism encountered for My sake. Many of us awaken antagonism by our way of stating things; we have to distinguish between being persecuted for some notion of our own and being persecuted "for My sake."

"Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God."

"The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not."

"If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day."

"The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God."

"Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God."

"Prayer is not only asking it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural and Jesus says "every one that asketh receiveth.""

"Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself."

"The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance."

"We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen."

"Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all he is connected with God by prayer and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life."

"The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition."

"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, prayer is the greater work."

"This total surrender to 'the love of Christ' is the only thing that will bear fruit in your life. And it will always leave the mark of God's holiness and His power, never drawing attention to your personal holiness."

"If we rely on the Holy Spirit we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate and when they are inarticulate reverence grows deeper and deeper."