Faith never goes contrary to reason – faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.
Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.
Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.
In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone.
The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.
The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only.
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.
We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.
Nowhere in the Word of God is there any text or passage or line that can be twisted or tortured into teaching that the organic living church of Jesus Christ just prior to His return will not have every right and every power and every obligation that she knew in that early part of the book of Acts.
God’s mercy is boundless, free and, through Jesus Christ our Lord, available to us now in our present situation.
The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.
Time is a resource that is non-renewable and non-transferable. You cannot store it, slow it up, hold it up, divide it up or give it up. You can’t hoard it up or save it for a rainy day – when it’s lost it is unrecoverable. When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.
As long as Christ sits on the throne, every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation.
No one need fear to listen to the voice of God unless he has already made up his mind to resist it.
Be thankful, but be careful that you don’t become so enamored of God’s good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.