The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.
Anything that God has declared that we should be we can be.
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.
A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.
The author squares man’s depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.
All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.
God is trying to call us back to that for which He created us, to worship Him and to enjoy Him forever.
Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.
He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.
The Christian’s heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.
What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends.
When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner’s side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner’s side. It isn’t that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.
Christians don’t tell lies they just go to church and sing them.
The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.
If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.
Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist.
Acquaint thyself with God.
Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.
When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock.
We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.