Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible spiritually to God for other people?
Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.
If your faith is in experiences, anything that happens is likely to upset that faith.
It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do – God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself.
The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.
We are here for God’s designs, not for our own.
The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.
Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.
We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.
The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a ‘happy Christian.’ Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed ‘that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.’
Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.
We must learn to live in the ordinary ‘gray’ day according to what we saw on the mountain.
Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.
Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.
Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.
We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.
The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God.
The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.
We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.