In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we’re pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker’s praise without anxiety.
If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.
Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.
One of the most popular current errors, and the one out of which springs most of the noisy, blustering religious activity in evangelical circles, is the notion that as times change the church must change with them.
To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.
We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too much faith or too much holiness.
I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they’re dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they’re enemies.
I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn’t find it out for many months.
God’s gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.
God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.
Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.
We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.
To great sections of the church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the ‘program.’ This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us.
If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, ‘I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.’
Without worship, we go about miserable.
No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.
The church that can’t worship must be entertained. And leaders who can’t lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.
We’re here to be worshipers first and workers only second.
We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ’s sufferings!