The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.
The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.
Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity.
A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.
I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.
To great sections of the church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the 'program.' This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us.
Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.
We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts
Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord when we labor using His enablement for His glory.
A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of [circumstances]... The man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage, but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether ready to follow when the Spirit chooses another to lead.
It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right.
Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.
You win them to what you win them with.
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.
I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.
Everything is wrong until Jesus sets it right.
I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.
Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.
Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education.
Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.
We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.
Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.
What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.
The Universal Presence is a fact. God is here. And He is no strange or foreign God, but the familiar Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who love has for thousands of years enfolded the sinful race of men. And always He is trying to get our attention, to reveal Himself to us, to communicate with us. We have within us the ability to know Him if we will but respond to His overtures.
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