The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.
Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.
Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.
Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.
At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.
There is only one way by which I can get right with God, and that is through the death of Jesus Christ. I must get rid of the underlying idea that I can ever be right with God because of my obedience. Who of us could ever obey God to absolute perfection!
Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it, we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being which he or she cannot possibly give.
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God.
To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God.
The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.
We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.
The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost, who produces these agonies begins the formation of the Son God in the life.
Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.
A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.
There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.
If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.
We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.
All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.
We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.
God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.
Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises of God.
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