Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.
Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.
The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.
We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.
Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.
Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.
Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going to do? God is responsible for our lives, and the one great keynote is reckless reliance upon Him.
Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says – I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.
It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.
Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
Prayer is God’s answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.
Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.
Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don’t deify common sense.
The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.
Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
I cannot give up my will – I must exercise it, putting it into action.
The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.
The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.