Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe.
No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.
God expects of us only what He Himself has supplied.
To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved.
Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.
If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.
Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.
Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.
If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.
God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God
If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.
Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.
What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?
The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.
Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.
We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.
Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.
Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day.
We often try to put God in a box. The God who fits in our boxes isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
When God would make His Name known to mankind He could find no better word than "I AM." When He speaks in the first person He says, "I AM"; when we speak of Him we say, "He is"; when we speak to Him we say, "Thou art." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point. "I am that I am," says God, "I change not."
When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.
An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.
Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.
Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.
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