A hard truth
In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No short cut exists.
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of the machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: the man who would know God must give time to him. He must count no time wasted which is spent in the cultivation of His acquaintance. He must give himself to meditation and prayer hours on end.
So did the saints of old, the glorious company of the apostles, the goodly fellowship of the prophets and the believing members of the holy Church in all generations. And so must we if we would follow in their train.
AW Tozer Divine Conquest, 22.
