“(Spiritual) Receptivity is not a single thing; it is a compound rather, a blending of several elements within the...

“The approach of God to the soul or of the soul to God is not to be thought of in spatial terms at all. There is no...

“It will be a great moment for some of us when we begin to believe that God’s promise of self-revelation is literally...

“The Presence and the manifestation of the Presence are not the same. There can be the one without the other. God is...

“What now does the divine immanence mean in direct Christian experience? It means simply that God is here. Wherever we...

“The truth is that while God dwells in His world, He is separated from it by a gulf forever impassable. However...

“God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. This is boldly taught by prophet...

“As we begin to focus upon God the things of the spirit will take shape before our inner eyes. Obedience to the word...

“The ‘other world,’ which is the object of this world’s disdain and the subject of the drunkard’s mocking song, is our...

“If we would rise into that region of light and power plainly beckoning us through the Scriptures of truth, we must...

“God and the spiritual world are real. We can reckon upon them with as much assurance as we reckon upon the familiar...

“The great Reality is God who is the Author of that lower and dependent reality which makes up the sum of created...

“We apprehend the physical world by exercising the faculties given us for the purpose, and we possess spiritual...

“A loving Personality dominates the Bible, walking among the trees of the garden and breathing fragrance over every...

“The cross is rough, and it is deadly, but it is effective. It does not keep its victim hanging there forever. There...

“God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust. We must confess, forsake, repudiate the self-life, and...

“To rip through the dear and tender stuff of which life is made can never be anything but deeply painful. Yet that is...

“There must be a work of God in destruction before we are free. We must invite the cross to do its deadly work within...

“Self can live unrebuked at the very altar. It can watch the bleeding Victim die and not be in the least affected by...

“It (the veil over the human heart) is woven of the fine threads of the self-life, the hyphenated sins of the human...

“Men of the breaking hearts had a quality about them not known to or understood by common men. They habitually spoke...

“The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence. The...

“At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious...

“God wills that we should push on into His Presence and live our whole life there. This is to be known to us in...

“If we would indeed know God in growing intimacy, we must go this way of renunciation. And if we are set upon the...

“The ancient curse will not go out painlessly; the tough old miser within us will not lie down and die obedient to our...

“Let him come to God in full determination to be heard. Let him insist that God accept his all, that He take things...

“The Christian who is alive enough to know himself even slightly will recognize the symptoms of this possession...

“There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the life. Because...

“These blessed poor are no longer slaves to the tyranny of things. They have broken the yoke of the oppressor; and...