Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.
God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.
The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time.
We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God’s indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.
Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.
It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something...
When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.
The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much.
God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself – the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone.
When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.
Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.