"The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.  Rush is wrong every time, there is always plenty of time to worship God. . . .  There are not three stages in spiritual life--worship, waiting, and work.  Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs, we jump from worship to waiting, and from waiting to work.  God's idea is that the three should go together.  They were always together in the life of our Lord.  He was unhasting and unresting.  It is a discipline, we cannot get into it all at once."  (Oswald Chambers; My Utmost for His Highest, January 6)


"The idea is not that we do work for God, but that we are so loyal to Him that He can do His work through us--'I reckon on you for extreme service, with no complaining on your part and no explanation on Mine.'  God wants to use us as He used His own Son."  (Oswald Chambers; My Utmost for His Highest, December 18)