Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.
It is necessary for God to use the hammers, the file, and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint for true sainthood. It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
God’s redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.
True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs – in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God.
Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty.
I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.
If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.
Some morning, get up and allow the power of God to come on you, and allow Him to bless you.
Everything is wrong until Jesus sets it right.
The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief.
God is looking for men in whose hands His glory is safe.
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace?
Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.
I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.
Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him.
God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.
Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education.
Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were ‘normal.’ Nothing is normal while sin and lust and death roam the world, pouncing upon one and another till the whole population has been destroyed.
God formed us for His pleasure, and so formed us that we as well as He can in divine communion enjoy the sweet and mysterious mingling of kindred personalities. He meant us to see Him and live with Him and draw our life from His smile.
All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with that overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him.