Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.
Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.
I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.
In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.
Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.
The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.
All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.
To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.
Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us
A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.
The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.
You can blame circumstances, but backsliding always begins in the heart.
It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.
The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.
God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.
Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us, yet if we withhold ourselves from that blood, we will be unclean forever.
The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.
We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.
The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. And one of the world's greatest tragedies is that we allow our hearts to shrink until there is room in them for little besides ourselves.
We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.
Holiness has nothing to do with what we know and everything to do with Who we know.
Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.
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