The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same – that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.
The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.
The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.
Jesus will meet me today in the person of someone in need-I must not miss him.
When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
Abundant living means abundant giving.
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
You don’t grow old. You get old by not growing.
In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action – you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?
An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.
Whatever we focus on determines what we become.
Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
Earth’s blackest day and earth’s brightest day are only three days apart.