Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us.
There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less.
Every man is as holy as he really wants to be.
It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right.
Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.
Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God’s presence?
Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.
For millions of Christians, nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian. They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle.
Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse.
Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient and beautiful abode.
Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.
The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.
Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.
Many things about our salvation are beyond our comprehension, but not beyond our trust.
In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.
Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.
When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.
The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists.
The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.