“ Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. ”
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
~ William Barclay
Prayer will never do our work for us, what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.
To see what God is like, we must look at Jesus. He perfectly represents God to men in a form which they can see and know and understand.
So often we have a kind of vague wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.
