What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends
The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men.
The kingdom of God is not in words. Words are only incidental and can never be fundamental. When evangelicalism ceased to emphasize fundamental meanings and began emphasizing fundamental words, and shifted from meaning to words and from power to words, they began to go down hill.
The scriptures are in print what Christ is in person.
Refuse to be average.
It is necessary for God to use the hammers, the file, and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint for true sainthood. It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
I find that many men and women are troubled by the thought that they are too small and inconsequential in the scheme of things. But that is not our real trouble - we are actually too big and too complex, for God made us in His image and we are too big to be satisfied with what the world offers us!.. Man is bored, because he is too big to be happy with that which sin is giving him. God has made him too great, his potential is too mighty.
In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.
God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds.
We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come...this is not the end.
To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God.
To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.
Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.
The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God... Our religion is weak because our God is weak... Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending on her concept of God.
What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.
The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.
We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.
The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.
Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist.
God loves you not because you are worthy, but because He is God and you are a fixture in His mind.
When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.
The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.
Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.
The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.
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