Christians must understand most emphatically that the world around us is in conflict with the Word within us.
Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.
Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.
Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself.
Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.
America is laughing her way to Hell.
When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.
Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.
We know how God would act if he were in our place – he has been in our place.
Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.
The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.
Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.
Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath.
Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this.
The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy of the Christian life has resulted from this one basic error in our religious thinking.
To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.
Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.
If Jesus Christ isn’t the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we’re only fooling ourselves.
The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.
Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.