April 12

Separation from the World

“For whom I have suffered the loss of all things.”
— Phil. 3:8

“God's design is to link us with heaven. You must have heaven without the world, or the world without heaven. He who prepares the city cannot wish for us anything between the two.”

“I remember saying … that our giving up the world and the world giving up us were two very different things. It is the latter which tries all the elements of self-importance, which lie much deeper than we are aware.”