The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.
Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.
What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.
The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.
There is something infinitely better than doing a great thing for God, and the infinitely better thing is to be where God wants us to be, to do what God wants us to do, and to have no will apart from His.
The supreme need in every hour of difficulty and distress is for a fresh vision of God. Seeing Him, all else takes on proper perspective and proportion.
When amusement is necessary to get people to listen to the gospel there will be failure. This is not the method of Christ. To form an organization and provide all kinds of entertainment for young people, in order that they may come to the Bible classes, is to be foredoomed to failure.
If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.
Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.
God has foreordained the works to which He has called you. He has been ahead of you preparing the place to which you are coming and manipulating all the resources of the universe in order that the work you do may be a part of His whole great and gracious work.
The man who preaches the cross must be a crucified man.
We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again
The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.
The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.
Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory.
The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.
The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward
Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our fellowship is with God, and fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which, on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness.
Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.
Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph.
The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.
Waiting for God means power to do nothing save under command. This is not lack of power to do anything. Waiting for God needs strength rather than weakness. It is power to do nothing. It is the strength that holds strength in check. It is the strength that prevents the blundering activity which is entirely false and will make true activity impossible when the definite command comes.
How would you like to live with somebody who was everlastingly grieving your heart by his conduct?
There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.
Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and one trivialities in which we are asked to waste our time and strength, and resolutely return to the apostolic ideal which made necessary the office of the diaconate. We must resolve that we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the Word.
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