The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.
We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.
The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest.
We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.
As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.
Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we reach the point where the grieved Holy Spirit withdraws – like the Shekinah from the temple.
What I cannot know by reason, I can know by simply believing.
Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days!
We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.
The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind.
Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.
There cannot be two absolutely free beings in the universe, for sooner or later two completely free wills must collide.
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel to much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful ‘adjustment’ to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest.
I can trust the One who has my best interest in mind.
It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God.
Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness.
Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.
Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.
We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.
The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.