The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.
God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.
Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at.
Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, “What comes into your mind when you think about God?” we might predict with certainty the future of that man.
Man must choose his world.
A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man’s greatest tragedy and God’s heaviest grief.
We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.
Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.
We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.
Sermonettes make Christianettes.
Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit...
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.
True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.
Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t yet come to the end of themselves. We’re still trying to give orders, and interfering with God’s work within us.
For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he is his deep heart conceives God to be like.
Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.
The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall know as we are known.
If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.