Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.
What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.
Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.
You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.
An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.
Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.
We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
I wish that we might get back to worship again. Then when people come into the church they will instantly sense that they have come among holy people, God’s people. They can testify, ‘Of a truth God is in this place’
To be effective the preacher’s message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God’s present voice to a particular people.
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.
Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one.
What do we value most? What would we most hate to lose? What do our thoughts turn to most frequently when we are free to think of what we will? And finally, what affords us the greatest pleasure?
After my study of today’s church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.