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If We Are To Be Ready For Jesus Christ, We Have To Stop Being Religious (that Is, Using Religion As A Higher Kind Of Culture) And Be Spiritually Real.

Patience Has The Meaning Of Testing-a Thing Drawn Out And Tested, Drawn Out To The Last Strand In A Strain Without Breaking, And Ending In Sheer Joy. The Strain On A Violin String When Stretched To The Uttermost Gives It Its Strength; And The Stronger The Strain, The Finer Is The Sound Of Our Life For God, And He Never Strains More Than We Are Able To Bear.

Are You Willing To Give And Be Poured Out Until You Are Used Up And Exhausted-not Seeking To Be Ministered To, But To Minister?

Wherever There Is Any Element Of Pride Or Of Conceit, Jesus Cannot Expound A Thing. He Will Take Us Through The Disappointment Of A Wounded Pride Of Intellect, Through Disappointment Of Heart. He Will Reveal Inordinate Affections-thin Gs Over Which We Never Thought He Would Have To Get Us Alone.

Jesus Christ Demands The Same Unrestrained, Adventurous Spirit In Those Who Have Placed Their Trust In Him That The Natural Man Exhibits. If A Person Is Ever Going To Do Anything Worthwhile, There Will Be Times When He Must Risk Everything By His Leap In The Dark.