Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.
Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.
When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.
You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.
When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.
Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all.
Our Lord’s first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus.
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
God’s grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.
No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.
When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.
Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.
God’s end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now.