Love Conquers All of You

Love penetrates the senses and storms the soul with all its power. When love grows in the soul, then it rises up with great longing to God and flowingly ...

Knowledge of Our Neediness

In our more honest moments, all of us know what needy people we are.

Hemmed in to Nothing

God has hemmed me in to nothing, that I many have nothing, do nothing, want nothing, save Himself.

Don't Leave Me, God

The soul that has once been waked, or stung, or uplifted by the desire of God, will inevitably (I think) awake to the fear of losing Him.

The Real Spiritual Life

True spirituality manifests itself in certain dominant desires.

1. First is the desire to be holy rather than happy.

2. A man may be considered spiritual ...

The Point of Asking

Think of the last thing you prayed about--were you devoted to your desire or to God? Determined to get some gift of the Spirit or to get at God? "Your ...

Of Wants and Needs

Faith in God will not get for you everything you may want, but it will get for you what God wants you to have. The unbeliever does not need what he wants: ...

The Drive of Loneliness

Loneliness is the psychic pain that drives us to do something about our isolation. That's just the way people are made.

Two Types of Ambition

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of ...

Hunger for God

The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the bread of heaven, instead of the white bread of the world. Do you want it? Are you hungry? Or are you ...