I don’t believe God is going to fill anybody with the Holy Spirit until the purpose of their heart is to glorify Jesus and to glorify God.
God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.
If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.
A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.
Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won’t get you anywhere.
I believe in the Church and in loyalty to a local church. I am not in favour of that view of the invisible church that makes one invisible at church on Sunday morning.
The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.
There are two omnipotences with Him: ‘With God all things are possible”: “All things are possible to him that believeth.
Teddy Roosevelt, during the First World War, used to talk about hyphenated Americans. He was talking about German-Americans who had a divided allegiance, and he said, “If you’re an American and something else, you’re not an American.
Nothing under the sun can be as dry and flat and tedious and exhausting as religious work without the wonder.
The Saturday Review is not a church paper. It’s a secular paper. But, the other day, it said, “The desensitization of 20th century man is more than a danger to the general safety. There are some things we have no business ever getting used to.