Religion Fails If It Cannot Speak To

We Are Trying Not So Much To Make God Listen To Us As To Make Ourselves Listen To Him; We Are Trying Not To Persuade God To Do What We Want, But To Find Out What He Wants Us To Do. It So Often Happens That In Prayer We Are Really Saying, 'thy Will Be Changed,' When We Ought To Be Saying, 'thy Will Be Done.' The First Object Of Prayer Is Not So Much To Speak To God As To Listen To Him.

Here Is An Eternal Truth. Life Cannot Be Divided Into Compartments In Some Which God Is Involved And In Others Of Which He Is Not Involved... The Fact Is That God Does Not Need To Be Invited Into Certain Departments Of Life, And Kept Out Of Others. He Is Everywhere, All Through Life And In Every Activity Of Life. He Hears Not Only The Words That Are Spoken In His Name; He Hears All Words; And There Cannot Be Any Such Thing As A Form Of Words Which Evades Bringing God Into Any Transaction. We Will Regard All Promises As Sacred If We Remember That All Promises Are Made In The Presence Of God.

The Christian Man Must Aim At That Complete Obedience To God In Which Life Finds Its Highest Happiness, Its Greatest Good, Its Perfect Consummation, Its Peace.

It May Be That One Of Our Great Faults In Prayer Is That We Talk Too Much And Listen Too Little. When Prayer Is At Its Highest We Wait In Silence For God's Voice To Us; We Linger In His Presence For His Peace And His Power To Flow Over Us And Around Us; We Lean Back In His Everlasting Arms And Feel The Serenity Of Perfect Security In Him.

Every Discouraging Sermon Is A Wicked Sermon... There Could Hardly Be A More Un-christian Way Of Living Than To Go About In Such A Way As To Depress And To Discourage Other People.