The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.
This is what you are here for: to glorify God and enjoy Him thoroughly and forever, telling the universe how great God is.
The more fascinated we become with the toys of this world, the more we forget that there’s another world to come.
If JESUS cannot control you, HE cannot save you. And if HE cannot control ALL of you HE cannot control any of you.
When our Lord looked at us, He saw not only what we were – He was faithful in seeing what we could become! He took away the curse of being and gave us the glorious blessing of becoming.
If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push around at your convenience. It is more than a thing, it is a voice, a word, the very Word of the living God.
One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his throne to preach the gospel to some tribe of aborigines, that king would be elevated above anything he had known before. Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down.
By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.
I find that when people haven’t found God and do not know the new birth and the Spirit is not on them, yet they have the ancient impulse to worship something. If they’re not educated they kill a chicken and put a funny thing on their head and dance around. If they are educated they write poetry.
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.
God is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from.
God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.
We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.
To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved.
What I was saved to is much more important than what I was saved from.
When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.
Light means nothing to a blind man.
Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the selfsufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.
For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth.
God’s purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.