“The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The...

“The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have...

“There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It...

“When the Lord divided Canaan among the tribes of Israel Levi received no share of the land. God said to him simply,...

“The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the ‘and’ lies our...

“We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few)....

“The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which...

­“How tragic that we in this dark day have had our seeking done for us by our teachers. Everything is made to center...

“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied...

“The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up...

“We have almost forgotten that God is a Person and, as such, can be cultivated as any person can. It is inherent in...

“For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in...