If you do all the talking when you pray, how will you ever hear God’s answers?
God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.
God desires and is pleased to communicate with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the souls of the redeemed men and women is the throbbing heart of the New Testament.
It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.
I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.
With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.
Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society’s own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.
Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.
A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.
The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.
Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.
Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.
Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!
A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of the external situation.
Very few things in life matter.
If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you.
It is possible that we can get so busy doing work ‘for’ the Lord that we have no time FOR the Lord.