Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.
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.
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.
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 must never rest until everything inside us worships God.
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.
Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.
Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.
The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one.
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.
God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.
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.
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.
The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.
A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.
Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.
God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.
In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.
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!
The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.
When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless.
Nothing should so occupy the mind of the Christian than discovering God each day.
If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.
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.
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