We need not force things. God has written His laws upon our hearts and changed our desires so that it’s easier to flow with His leading than to do something else.

The joy of resurrection is worth the pain of death.

This is the foe’s greatest diabolical delight—making havoc of the place where we meet with God, get to know Him, and are changed into His image.

You have left the leading of the Holy Spirit and sunk yourself into bondage, relying now on your ritual rather than the Lord.