No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.
To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
If you do not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him on one day a week. There is no such thing known in heaven as Sunday worship unless it is accompanied by Monday worship and Tuesday worship and so on.
Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross, follow your Lord. The masses are always wrong. In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.
It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.
The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.
O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen.
If you want to be changed, read a good book.
Breezy, self-confident Christians tell us how wonderful it is to accept Christ and then have a good time all the rest of your life; the Lord won't demand anything of you. Yes, He will, my friend! The Lord will demand everything of you. And when you give it all up to Him, He may bless it and hand it back, but on the other hand He may not.
In the Book of Acts faith was for each believer a beginning, not an end; it was a journey, not a bed in which to lie while waiting for the day of our Lord's triumph. Believing was not a once-done act; it was more than an act, it was an attitude of heart and mind which inspired and enabled the believer to take up his cross and follow the Lamb whithersoever He went.
If faith is the gaze of the heart at God, and if this gaze is but the raising of the inward eyes to meet the all-seeing eyes of God, then it follows that it is one of the easiest things possible to do.
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.
If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.
True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.
Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.
One thing the young Christian should be taught as quickly as possible after his conversion is that Jesus Christ is all he needs.
What God declares the believing heart confesses without the need of further proof. Indeed, to seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous.
Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.
Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.
We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.
The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does not enter here, but the question of union and fellowship does. The wheat grows in the same field as the tares, but shall the two cross-pollinate? The sheep graze near the goats, but shall they seek to interbreed? The unjust and the just enjoy the same rain and sunshine, but shall they forget their deep moral differences and intermarry? ... The Spirit-illuminated church will have none of this
Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse.
Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
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