What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, a...
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 get...
There is no need to get to a place of prayer pray wherever you are.
The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff of life, and this is where we ha...
Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate bef...
God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
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 whe...
It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition.
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.
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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-c...
Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
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 through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.
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.
Prayer is not an exercise it is the life.
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