In the long pull we pray only as well as we live. - A. W. Tozer

Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.