Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.
A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.
God commands us to be filled with the Spirit, and if we are not filled, it is because we are living beneath our privileges
If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.
The trouble with a great many men is that they spread themselves out over too much ground. They fail in everything. If they would only put their life into one channel, and keep it in, they would accomplish something. They make no impression because they do a little work here and a little work there....Lay yourselves on the altar of God, and then concentrate on some one work.
We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
Character is what you are in the dark.
Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
A good example is far better than a good precept.
There is the joy of one's own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had ever known, and that I could never get beyond it. But I found, afterward, there was something more joyful that, namely, the joy of the salvation of others.
Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.
Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in money and you may have it taken from you, but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.
The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.
God had no children too weak, but a great many too strong to make use of.
Faith is an outward look, not an inward look.
A good many preachers say I am lowering the pulpit. I am glad I am. I am trying to get it down to the level of men's hearts. If I wanted to hit Chicago I would not put the cannon on the top of this building and fire into the air. Too many preachers fire into the air.
Is there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken one of His promises? I defy any infidel or unbeliever to place a finger on a single promise of God ever made and failed to fulfill.
Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.
You can always tell when a man is a great ways from God--he is always talking about himself, how good he is. But the moment he sees God by the eye of faith, he is down on his knees, and, like Job, he cries, "Behold I am vile.
Salvation is worth working for. It is worth a man's going round the world on his hands and knees, climbing its mountains, crossing its valleys, swimming its rivers, going through all manner of hardship in order to attain it. But we do not get it in that way. It is to him who believes.
If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!
Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.
Christ never preached any funeral sermons.
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