We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.
No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.
We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.
Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.
God is never satisfied with anything less than all.
Teach us to know that we cannot know, for the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Let faith support us where reason fails, and we shall think because we believe, not in order that we may believe.
Anything that God has declared that we should be we can be.
The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.
...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.
When a person, yielding to God and believing the truth of God, is filled with the Spirit of God, even his faintest whisper will be worship.
In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.
If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty.
The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the 'poor in spirit.'
The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance has faded away to an apologetic whisper. She who one time went out to declare now goes out to inquire. Her dogmatic declaration has become a respectful suggestion, a word of religious advice, given with the understanding that it is after all only an opinion and not meant to sound bigoted. Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its culture, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.
To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.
Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.
We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.
Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.
God is running the universe. We ought not think like scientists, but think like psalmists.
One of the most popular current errors, and the one out of which springs most of the noisy, blustering religious activity in evangelical circles, is the notion that as times change the church must change with them.
The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God- not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice.
The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists.
We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.
You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the exceeding riches of God's kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
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