"Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer."

"Gaining heaven, being delivered from sin, and being made useful to God are things that should never even be a consideration in real surrender."

"God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection."

"The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience."

"Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes."

"There is no need to get to a place of prayer pray wherever you are."

"God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word."

"We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself."

"Prayer is not logical it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit."

"To follow Jesus today is to follow a madman according to the ideals of present day civilization. We have the idea that our civilization is God-ordained, whereas it has been built up by ourselves. We have made a thousand and one necessities until our system of civilized life is as cast iron, and then we apologize to the Lord for not following Him."

"The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control."

"We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character."

"No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus' sake unless he knows that the Holy Spirit has directly spoken to him; and until He comes, I shall not go."

"The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold."

"It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table."

"Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are."

"A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one."

"When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait."

"Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus."

"When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line."

"We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there."

"The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today."

"When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't.""

"If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way- not in a human way that ignores God."

"To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness."

"Prayer is not an exercise it is the life."

"My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life."

"Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God's will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God."

"What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of all Grace straight to the intimate personal heart of each one mentioned here, and I know that He Who is not prescribed by time and geography answers immediately."

"The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer."

"We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well."

"He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He's continually working out His ultimate perfection for you..."

"Every time we pray our horizon is altered our attitude to things is altered not sometimes but every time and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more."

"No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will."

"Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith."

"Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it-good, but not best."

"To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things."

"God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive."

"Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit."

"When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else once you are back in the light."

"We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself."

"Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him."

"The Lord's questions always reveal the true me to myself."

"Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in you will work on a wrong level all day but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God."

"The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us."

"Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him."

"Whenever the conviction of God's Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey, but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God."

"Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude because they feel such service is beneath their dignity."

"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."

"Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus- not love for Jesus Himself."