Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven’t room for ill will.
We grow small trying to be great.
An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.
If we know how to pray, we know how to live.
At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.
Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.
If you find something that gets hold of you in the Word, pass it on to somebody that very day.
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing – so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
If you don’t surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.
When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.
You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us – an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
Very often when I haven’t faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can’t. I have to rise to His faith in me.