All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.
Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days.
God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.
If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.
Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man’s character.
Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.
We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves-blessed riddance.
The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the Lord.
Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.
Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe.
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.
It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as well not pray. Unless praying men have the insight and faith to amend their whole way of life to conform to the New Testament pattern there can be no true revival.
When the Spirit illuminates the heart, then a part of the man sees which never saw before; a part of him knows which never knew before, and that with a kind of knowing which the most acute thinker cannot imitate.
Jesus will never qualify or compromise anything he has said.
Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.