Be not afraid, though every stay Should fail, or be removed away, And thou be stript of all; But lose thyself in that vast sea, The ocean of the …

- Gerhard Tersteegen

The love ofChrist is my prayer-book

- Gerhard Tersteegen

A God comprehended is no God. (Ein begriffener Gott ist kein Gott.)

- Gerhard Tersteegen

As long as we want to be different from what God wants us to be at the time, we are only tormenting ourselves to no purpose.

- Gerhard Tersteegen

To walk before God and in His presence, is the ground and the costly jewel of true Christian living. I would have you above all things to grasp this …

- Gerhard Tersteegen

Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us ... This service of prayer is not a…

- Gerhard Tersteegen

Your own self-will and anxiety, your hurry and labor, disturb your peace and prevent Me from working in you. Look at the little flowers, in the seren…

- Gerhard Tersteegen

Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us...Prayer is simply asking God to do…

- Gerhard Tersteegen

He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at last He may live a…

- Gerhard Tersteegen