Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know I couldn't be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that I am desperate for Him to come through. That if He doesn't come through, I am screwed.
I can't change it, That was God's plan for my life and I'm going to go with it.
Sannyas is the art of flying... the art that stops the process of gravitation and starts the process of grace. All that is needed is a state of let-go. All that is needed is a readiness to be possessed by the upward dimension, a readiness to open to the sky.
It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace.
The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.
What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.
What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.
Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.
