“The pattern [of the crisis of the deeper life] seems to be self-centeredness, self-effort, increasing inner dissatisfaction and outer discouragement, a temptation to give it all up because there is no better way, and then finding the Spirit of God to be their strength, their guide, their confidence and companion--in a word, their life.”
V. Raymond Edman“Climbing in the Spirit is accompanied by kneeling, and not by running; by surrender, and not by determination. Despair of self leads to utter desperation; but beyond these mists lies the sunshine of God's presence.”
V. Raymond Edman, They Found the Secret: Twenty Lives That Reveal a Touch of Eternity“Many a soul will turn back to accustomed marshlands of defeat rather than brave the fogs of frustration”
but the mountain peaks rise high above the rain and gloom.