Prayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the greater work. We think of prayer as a common-sense exercise of our higher powers in order to prepare us for God's work. In the teaching of Jesus Christ prayer is the working of the miracle of redemption in me which produces the miracle of redemption in others by the power of God. The way fruit remains is by prayer, but remember it is prayer based on the agony of redemption, not on my agony. Only a child gets prayer answered; a wise man does not.
Oswald Chambers

The only cure for lukewarmness is the readmission of the excluded Christ. Apostasy must be confronted with His fidelity, looseness with conviction born of His authority, poverty with the fact of His wealth, frost with the mighty fire of His enthusiasm, and death with the life divine that is in His gift. There is no other cure for the malady of the world, for the lukewarmness of the Church than the readmitted Christ.
G. Campbell Morgan

The Son is God's gift to the world, and, moreover, it is THE gift. There are no Divine gifts apart from or outside the one-born Son.
A Writer whose last name is Odeberg

The fountain of God, most abundant and full, is open to everyone. This heavenly light rises for everyone who has eyes. Did the philosophers bring about these things, or can they accomplish these results if they want? For although they spend their lives studying philosophy, they can neither improve any person nor improve themselves . . . Their wisdom at its best doesn't eradicate, but actually hides faults. However, God's principles will change people so completely and make them new by having them put off their old selves so that you wouldn't recognize them as the same.
Lactantius

God always leads us in triumph provided we stay in Christ. This raises questions: Aren't Christians often defeated? Do they not often go down in disaster? The answer is no, not if they stay "in Christ," for staying in Christ is the victory. When you stay in Him you manifest a spirit which cannot be defeated, for the manifestation of that spirit is the victory.
Jesus went down in defeat at the cross, but at the very moment of defeat he manifested a spirit which was the victory: "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." That spirit was the victory amid defeat. So if you manifest His spirit amid your defeat, you are led in Christ's triumph - for that spirit is the victory, the victory that overcomes the world! When a Roman persecutor said to a Christian who was in the tyrant's grip, "What can your Master do for you now?" The man replied, "He can help me to forgive you." That forgiveness was the victory!

E. Stanley Jones

Surrender (to God) consists, not in doing great, heroic deeds about which self can brag, but simply in accepting whatever God sends and not seeking to change it (unless it His will for it to be changed). Full surrender is full peace. If we are restless and concerned about things formerly renounced, we have not geninely surrendered. Surrender is the source of true peace; if we aren't at peace, it is because our surrender is not complete'
Francois Fenelon

If we want to understand God's goodness in God's gifts, then we must think of them as a responsibility we bear for our brothers and sisters. Let none say: 'God has blessed us with money and possessions, and then live as if they and their God were alone in the world. For the time will come when they realize that they have been worshipping the idols of their good fortune and selfishness. Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which God entrusts to us.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The resurrection means that the limitations of space and time are abolished. We do not need to be born again as first-century Palestinians to encounter Christ, in that the risen Christ finds us and calls us, whatever our situation. Christ breaks down historical and cultural barriers - and ultimately the barrier of death itself - precisely because he is risen and alive. For man, death means a severing of relationships, in that he is cut off from those whom he knew and loved. In the case of Jesus, we find that his death had exactly the opposite effect on account of the resurrection - it restored him to fellowship with those whom he loved . . . and opened up the possibility of fellowship with those whom (so to speak) he had never known - like us.
Alister McGrath

Do you know God? I am not asking whether you believe things about Him; but have you met Him? Have you known yourself for certain in His presence? Does He speak to you, and do you speak to Him? . . . It matters not where you are as long as you know that this is possible, that Christ died to make it possible. He died "to bring us to God," and to this knowledge . . . O that we might know God! Begin to cry with Job, "Oh, that I knew where I might find him," and you will soon find yourself desiring, hungering to know Him.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones