Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.
To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.
The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only.
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.
I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.
God's mercy is boundless, free and, through Jesus Christ our Lord, available to us now in our present situation.
The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.
The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one.
Keep my eyes fixed on You, Lord. Help me to stop tinkering and realize my total inability to change. I look to You to change me and give me victory as I focus on Your friendly eyes looking lovingly at me. Amen.
We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.
Shall it be a religion or shall it be Christ? Shall it be churchianity or shall it be Jesus Christ? Shall it be pride or shall it be humility in Jesus Christ?
We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We must not imagine ourselves commissioned to make Christ acceptable to big business, the press, the world of sports or modern education. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
Very few things in life matter.
A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.
God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.
Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.
Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.
A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.
Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.
I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.
We are often hindered from giving up our treasures to the Lord out of fear for their safety; this is especially true when those treasures are loved relatives and friends. But we need have no such fears. Our Lord came not to destroy but to save. Everything is safe which we commit to Him, and nothing is really safe which is not so committed.
Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.
It is either all of Christ or none of Christ! I believe we need to preach again a whole Christ to the world - a Christ who does not need our apologies, a Christ who will not be divided, a Christ who will either be Lord of all or will not be Lord at all!
Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.
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