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The facts of Christianity indicate that the Lord worked late at night, even on the very day that He arose. And Paul extended his service into the night; indeed, he says, “night and day”. And in later years, the brethren spent far into the night in looking into the matter of prophecy.

Maybe we should tax ourselves as to how much time we really make for looking into these matters, because obviously time is very scarce. But it may be because we do not provide for it, that we do not ration it. If anything is scarce, it has to be rationed; used with judgment, and the most made of it. Maybe we should consider the matter of rationing time …

J. Taylor (Vol. 100, p.348)

If you ask me what Christianity really is, I should say it is Christ formed in the saints by the Spirit. It is not holding a certain system of doctrine. Christianity is vital, it is Christ living in the saints by the power of the Spirit. The saints are morally in that way according to the heavenly. I cannot conceive of anything more wonderful than to be able to say that the spiritual constitution of the believer is really derived from the heavenly, so that it can really be said, “As is the heavenly, such are they also which are heavenly”.

F. E. Raven (Vol. 19, p.55)

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