Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.
The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief.
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him.
To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.
Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.
The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons.
How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.
When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.
Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God’s presence.
The true Christian is one who is kind of sick of this world. If I find anybody who is settled down too snugly into this world, I am made to doubt whether he's ever truly been born again
So, it becomes the devil's business to keep the Christian's spirit imprisoned. He knows that the believing and justified Christian has been raised up out of the grave of his sins. From that point on, Satan works that much harder to keep us bound and gagged, in our own grave clothes. He knows that if we continue in this kind of bondage...we are not much better off than when we were spiritually dead.
People have faith in 'faith' and largely forget that our confidence is not in the power of faith but in the Person and work of the Savior, Jesus Christ.
No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.
If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.
Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.
Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.
Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. This is such a common truth that one hesitates to mention it, yet it appears to have been overlooked by the majority of Christians today.
To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.
God's mercy is boundless, free and, through Jesus Christ our Lord, available to us now in our present situation.
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.
Very few things in life matter.
I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.
Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.
God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.
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