We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
Spiritual Christians look upon the world not as a playground but as a battleground.
It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.
The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.
To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.
As mercy is God’s goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.
Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.
It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man’s lordship has cost us too much...
We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.
You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being struck by an obvious fact-the whole matter of personal holiness is highly important to God!
Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
God is more concerned with the state of people’s hearts than He is with the state of their feelings.
If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty.
Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there.
We can take whatever path in worship we choose, but not all paths will end at the feet of Jesus.
We must never allow the majority to overrule the clear teaching of the Word of God.
A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.
My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me.
God spares us because He is good, but He could not be good if He were not just.
Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God’s loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own.