The moment the freshness of divine affection begins to wane, the heart goes after the world, and the next step is that the flesh is indulged; as the fruit of that we lose spiritual discernment and get turned away by the seductions of the enemy. You will find that order in the life history of every saint of God; that is, the world gets in, the flesh is indulged, spiritual perception is lost, and we drift from the path of obedience and loyalty to Christ.
Toronto Conference, 1953