The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.
When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.
Love is both a principle and an emotion; it is something both felt and willed. It is capable of almost infinite degrees. Love in the human heart may begin so modestly as to be hardly perceptible and go on to become a raging torrent that sweeps its possessor before it in total helplessness.
Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.
The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord’s own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else.
The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God’s wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him...
Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.
Christianity is hard when we try to serve God in man’s way instead of serving God in God’s way.
The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God- not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice.
We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!
When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies.
God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called “The Word.” The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God’s continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind.
It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably.
A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.
The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.
The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, “God.” The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.
Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.
When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.
The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.