The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.
Ask God to give you the strength to endure, and rest assured, He will take care of you.
Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.
As I make goals for this year... Jesus, let your thoughts become my thoughts and bend my will to Your will.
God gave me emotions so I could experience life, not destroy it
Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.
If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.
As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others.
If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God.
It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.
Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.
Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us.
We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more. What if all the world should embrace this Gospel? They would then see eye to eye, and the blessings of God would be poured out upon the people, which is the desire of my whole soul.
The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.
I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three.
At this very moment, God’s working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor. Stay in faith!
Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.
There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk yourself out of it. That's the Creator giving you inside information.
These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator.
Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.
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