What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.
Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We always look for justice in this world, but there is no such thing as justice. Jesus says — Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.
To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.
You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.
As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.
We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God’s Word.
Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.
Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.
Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.
Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.
No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST
The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything “to the Lord,” other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.
We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.
But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.
The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.
Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.
Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love.
God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
Peace is the deepest thing a human personality can know; it is almighty
It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
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