God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.
It is no sin to doubt some things, but it may be fatal to believe everything.
Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.
Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.
We must like Moses cover ourselves with faith and humility while we steal a quick look at the God whom no man can see and live. The broken and the contrite heart He will not despise. We must hide our unholiness in the wounds of Christ as Moses hid himself in the cleft of the rock while the glory of God passed by. We must take refuge from God in God.
Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.
The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.
To men and women everywhere Jesus says, "Come unto me, and I will give you rest." The rest He offers is the rest of meekness, the blessed relief which comes when we accept ourselves for what we are and cease to pretend.
The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.
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 must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.
Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.
At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.
There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.
The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.
By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.
All great Christians have been wounded souls.
To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear.
A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.
We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
I have found God to be cordial and generous and in every way easy to live with.
We are called not to adjust ourselves to each other, but to adjust ourselves to 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.
It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.
Man must choose his world
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