Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God. Believing, then, is directing the hearts' attention to Jesus. It is lifting the mind to 'behold the Lamb of God,' and never ceasing that beholding for the rest of our lives.
Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?
God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called "The Word." The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God's continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind.
How unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely. No talebearer can inform on us; no enemy can make an accusation stick; no forgotten skeleton can come tumbling out of some hidden closet to abash us and expose out past; no unsuspected weakness in our characters can come to light to turn God away from us, since He knew us utterly before we knew him and called us to Himself in the full knowledge of everything that was against us.
The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know
The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.
God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.
Jesus Christ never thinks about what we have been! He always thinks about what we are going to be.
God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.
We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.
If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push around at your convenience. It is more than a thing, it is a voice, a word, the very Word of the living God.
His words are the essence of truth...Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.
To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fine and intricate explanations. These are tailor-made for the flesh. They excuse disobedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that Christ simply could not have meant what He said. His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by interpretation.
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.
What I was saved to is much more important than what I was saved from.
Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.
The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.
The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ. What he is or is not no longer concerns him. He believes that he has been crucified with Christ and he is not willing either to praise or deprecate such a man.
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is now speaking.
The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.
What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day... It would be better to invite God now to remove every false trust, to disengage our hearts from all secret hiding places and to bring us out into the open where we can discover for ourselves whether or not we actually trust Him. That is a harsh cure for our troubles, but it is a sure one. Gentler cures may be too weak to do the work. And time is running out on us.
Listen to no man who has not listened to God.
God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.
Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
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