Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
...revivals (or any other spiritual gifts and graces) come only to those who want them badly enough. It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be.
Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.
The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.
Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.
God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.
If you have believed but not obeyed, you have postponed your Christian life.
It is no sin to doubt some things, but it may be fatal to believe everything.
In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group.
Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.
The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.
The trouble is that the whole 'accept Christ' attitude is likely to be wrong. It shows Christ applying to us rather than us to him. It makes him stand hat-in-hand awaiting our verdict on him, instead of our kneeling with troubled hearts awaiting his verdict on us. It may even permit us to accept Christ by an impulse of mind or emotions, painlessly, at no loss to our ego and no inconvenience to our usual way of life.
God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.
I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.
In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.
Where God is not glorified, that place is sick
You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
It is the Spirit of Christ in us that will draw satan's fire. The people of the world will not much care what we believe and they will stare vacantly at our religious forms, but there is one thing they will never forgive us-the presence of God's Spirit in our hearts. They may not know the cause of that strange feeling of antagonism which rises within them, but it will be nonetheless real and dangerous. satan will never cease to make war on the Man-child, and the soul in which dwells the Spirit of Christ will continue to be the target for his attacks.
Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.
I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.
It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.
If you have to be reasoned into Christianity, some wise fellow can reason you out of it! If you come to Christ by a flash of the Holy Spirit so that by intuition you know that you are God's child, you know it by the text but you also know it by the inner light, the inner illumination of the Spirit, and no one can ever reason you out of it.
To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
No one need fear to listen to the voice of God unless he has already made up his mind to resist it.
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