We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.
Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.
Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.
Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.
Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.
The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.
Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee.'
What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of all Grace straight to the intimate personal heart of each one mentioned here, and I know that He Who is not prescribed by time and geography answers immediately.
Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."
At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.
It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.
It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God’s sight than to appear lovely to man’s eyes but lame to God’s.
Begin to know Him now, and finish never
Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.
In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.
Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.
The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.
To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if by being born again from above we know Him first as Savior, we know that He did not come to teach us only. He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.
And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.
When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.
Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.
The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.
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