“Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.”

“It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.”

“Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical.”

“Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.”

“Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.”

“I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and everything that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Spirit will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit, ambition and self-seeking, pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God. I also believe that many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us. There must be a n emptying before there can be a filling; and when the heart is turned upside down, and everything that is contrary to God is turned out, then the Spirit will come...”