The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God.
Have I allowed my personal human life to become a ‘Bethlehem’ for the Son of God?
God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.
I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
God is patient with the process! Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.
The great paralysis of our heart is unbelief.
Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.
A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite sincere, and yet Jesus says in reality we are frauds.
We think we understand another person’s struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives.
It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes.
We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.
The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things.
The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.
The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.
No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.
It is a great thing to see physical courage, and greater still to see moral courage, but the greatest to see of all is spiritual courage; oh, to see a person who will stand true to the integrity of Jesus Christ no matter what he or she goes through!
To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God’s will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.
Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.
Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.