“Valuable as are the prolific opportunities for Christian culture and service which surround us, they will be disaster indeed in their effect if they rob us of the time that we should be otherwise spend with God, or give us a distaste for lonely heart-fellowship. Let the first moments of the day, when the heart is fresh, be given to God. Never see the face of man till you have seen the King. Dare to be much alone on the Mount.”

“True Christian excellence is as unconscious of its beauty as Moses was; whenever it becomes self-conscious it loses its charm. Beware of the man who talks about his graces. There is such a thing as being proud of humility, and making capital out of our nothingness. The man who boasts of a shining face is a counterfeit and a cheat. The possessor of the genuine article never talks about it, never thinks about it ; and would be almost overwhelmed to hear of any such thing being ascribed to him. The charm of a little child is it’s utter unconsciousness of self; and that is the charm in true God-likeness. It is like the bloom on a peach, the dew-jewels on the morning lawn or the stillness of the surface of a mountain pool.”

F.B. Meyer (1847-1929)