God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church – not just say that we do, but actually do it.
All great Christians have been wounded souls.
Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.
When a person, yielding to God and believing the truth of God, is filled with the Spirit of God, even his faintest whisper will be worship.
When we make a choice today, we are deciding who we will be tomorrow.
Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.
Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.
When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him.
If you cannot worship the Lord in the midst of your responsibilitie s on Monday, it is not very likely that you were worshiping on Sunday!
The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.
God is here. Wherever we are, God is here. There is no place, there can be no place, where He is not.
There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis.
Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any.
Refuse to be average.
Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross, follow your Lord. The masses are always wrong. In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.
We wonder why we don’t have faith; the answer is, faith is confidence in the character of God and if we don’t know what kind of God God is, we can’t have faith.
Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.