These words of Our Lord are true of our initial conversion, but we have to be continuously converted all the days of our lives, continually to turn to God as children.

If we trust to our wits instead of to God, we produce consequences for which God will hold us responsible.

Immediately our bodies are brought into new conditions by the providence of God, we have to see that our natural life obeys the dictates of the Spirit of God.

Because we have done it once is no proof that we shall do it again.

The relation of the natural to the spiritual is one of continuous conversion, and it is the one thing we object to.

In every setting in which we are put, the Spirit of God remains unchanged and His salvation unaltered, but we have to "put on the new man."

God holds us responsible every time we refuse to convert ourselves, our reason for refusing is wilful obstinacy.

Our natural life must not rule, God must rule in us.

The hindrance in our spiritual life is that we will not be continually converted, there are wadges of obstinacy where our pride spits at the throne of God and says - I won't.

We deify independence and willfulness and call them by the wrong name.

What God looks on as obstinate weakness, we call strength.

There are whole tracts of our lives which have not yet been brought into subjection, and it can only be done by this continuous conversion.

Slowly but surely we can claim the whole territory for the Spirit of God.

The meek . . . shall increase their joy in the Lord , and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, . . . is in the sight of God of great price.

Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.

Follow after meekness.

Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so he openeth not his mouth.

Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was reviled reviled not again, . . . but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.