Any doctrine that makes the world your friend is not your friend.
To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.
I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God.
Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there?
The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.
The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"
There are rare Christians whose very presence incites others to be better Christians. I want to be that rare Christian.
I believe in Christian charity, but I don't believe in Christian tolerance... When we become so tolerate that we lead people into mental fog and spiritual darkness, we are not acting like Christians; we are acting like cowards!
Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God. Believing, then, is directing the hearts' attention to Jesus. It is lifting the mind to 'behold the Lamb of God,' and never ceasing that beholding for the rest of our lives.
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.
A scared world needs a fearless church.
The heart that knows God can find God anywhere.
The devil loves it when we say we believe then prioritize everything in our lives ahead of God.
As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.
What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them...we must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly.
Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.
Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.
Outside of the will of god, there is nothing I want. And in the will of god there is nothing I fear.
When we make a choice today, we are deciding who we will be tomorrow.
The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.
True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.
The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.
We operate by faith, which means that we have confidence in what God says, whether we fully understand it or not
No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the yard, but that is not a guarantee of knowing the truth. Truth is not a text. Truth is in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Spirit to bring truth to a human soul.
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
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