You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.
Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.
It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time we spend trying to fix up outward things were spent in getting our hearts right, we would be delighted with the result. Strange as it may seem, harmony within our hearts depends mostly upon our getting into harmony with God.
In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.
When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.
Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.
If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.
The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.
The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.
You can't truly rest until every area in your life rests in God.
May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.
Trust God in the dark until the light returns.
Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!
We must never rest until everything inside us worships God.
When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence.
God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.
How unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely. No talebearer can inform on us; no enemy can make an accusation stick; no forgotten skeleton can come tumbling out of some hidden closet to abash us and expose out past; no unsuspected weakness in our characters can come to light to turn God away from us, since He knew us utterly before we knew him and called us to Himself in the full knowledge of everything that was against us.
The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.
The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body.
Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul.
We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.
Compare yourself only with Jesus.
The key to prayer is simply praying.
Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.
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