True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.
The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.
It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon be entertaining erroneous thoughts; for words, which are given us for the expression of thought, have a habit of going beyond their proper bounds and determining the content of thought.
We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.
The fruit is what really matters, not how gnarly or beautiful the apple tree is.
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.
Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
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.
I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months
There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be another class: the self-forgetful who leave the whole thing in the hands of Christ and refuse to waste any time trying to make themselves good. They will reach the goal far ahead of the rest.
Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.
Acquaint thyself with God.
It's not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life.
He (God) may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is.
History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.
Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.
The atonement in Jesus Christ's blood is perfect; there isn't anything that can be added to it. It is spotless, impeccable, flawless. It is perfect as God is perfect.
Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].
Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of God.
Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.
When the Spirit illuminates the heart, then a part of the man sees which never saw before; a part of him knows which never knew before, and that with a kind of knowing which the most acute thinker cannot imitate.
Wherever we find Jesus is the perfect place to worship.
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