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.
We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.
Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.
Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?
What I was saved to is much more important than what I was saved from.
Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.
If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.
Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our 'accepting' and 'willing' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.
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
To know that God thinks about me is the beginning of my journey of faith.
If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.
What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?
We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.
He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.
God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.
One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God.
It is doubtful we can be Christian in anything unless we are Christian in everything.
Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me.
Without worship, we go about miserable.
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.
God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not he who cried, 'God, where art Thou?' It was God who cried, 'Adam, where art thou?'
Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.
To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.
When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.
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