A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me..

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ….

God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we know what ought to be done. We ask God first to ….

The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest h….

God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the ….

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our o….

The Lord gave the wonderful promise of the free use of His name with the Father in conjunction with doing His works. The disciple who lives only for ….

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all..

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child..

As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble..

Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of Hi….

We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power ….

Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and ….

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love..

Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith..

How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps..

The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willi….

Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust..

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride….

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God..

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God..