I tried to pray, and you know brothers and sisters, I was in this thing for 30 years and you never get to the place where you know how to pray, it tears you apart every day!
-Gerhard Du Toit

The average Christian is so cold and contented with his wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
-A.W. Tozer

"No man is ever fully accepted until he has, first of all, been utterly rejected."
-Author unknown

The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.
-A.W.Tozer

“Preach the word purely and fully; mix nothing with it that does not belong to it, or may not evidently be inferred from its language. State every doctrine and opinion as near to the mind of the Spirit as you can ascertain. The doctrines of the word you will bring forth in their full import, without concealing them, or endeavouring to melt them down and mould them so as to suit the prejudiced and indolent depravity of the human heart. The gospel is not suited, and cannot be made to suit, the corrupt dispositions and inclinations of the carnal mind; but the faithful preaching of it is calculated to oppose and to overcome those evil prejudices so far as to excite men to attend to the doctrines it contains and the blessings it proposes. It is your duty, not to bring down the gospel into a conformity with them, but to change them into a conformity with the gospel.”

-Taken from The Works of Robert Hall, “The Substance of a Charge, Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. J. K. Hall, at Kettering,