Artificiality is one curse that will drop away the moment we kneel at Jesus' feet and surrender ourselves to His meekness. Then we will not care what people think of us so long as God is pleased. Then what we are will be everything; what we appear will take its place far down the scale of interest for us. Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.
If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.
Mans nature indicates that he was created for three things: To think, to worship and to work. But thinking is not enough. Men are made to worship also, to bow down and adore in the presence of the Mystery inexpressible.
I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and I choose it above all things on Earth or in Heaven.
God created our souls to be satisfied only with the divine everlastingness of the Word made flesh.
It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as well not pray. Unless praying men have the insight and faith to amend their whole way of life to conform to the New Testament pattern there can be no true revival.
We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensibl e and unattainable... Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He is that standard.
The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.
The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God.
Yes, I believe you can be right with God and still not like the way some people behave. Our admonition is to love them in a larger and more comprehensive way because we are all one in Christ Jesus. This kind of love is indeed a Christian virtue!
True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs - in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God.
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.
Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?
There cannot be two absolutely free beings in the universe, for sooner or later two completely free wills must collide.
Oh, if we would only remember who God is!
I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.
We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.
Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.
If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.
We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.
What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform.
Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.
A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.
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