I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.
The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
Character is what a man is in the dark.
We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.
In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.
The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.
If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.
He who kneels the most, stands the best.
Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.
When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.
Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.
Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.
If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!
Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor.
I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.
What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out anything.
A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.
When God gave Christ to this world, He gave the best He had, and He wants us to do the same.
God will not accept a divided heart. He must be absolute monarch. There is not room in your heart for two thrones. You cannot mix the worship of the true God with the worship of any other god more than you can mix oil and water. It cannot be done. There is not room for any other throne in the heart if Christ is there. If worldliness should come in, godliness would go out.
Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.
God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without GOD he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with GOD can be a somebody.
Whatever you love more than God is your idol.
Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.
This lost world will never be reached and brought back to loyalty to God, until the children of God wake up to the fact that they have a mission in the world. If we are true Christians we should all be missionaries.
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