We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God.
I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.
God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.
Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend; some go there their time to spend. Some go there to meet a lover; some go there a fault to cover. Some go there for speculation; some go there for observation. Some go there to doze and nod; the wise go there to worship God.
Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.
Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.
There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.
The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.
Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation.
When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!
Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.
The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example?
My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah!
If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.
You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.
If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.
When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.
From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.
I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.
You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in Christ, if indeed he be in Christ at all. Young Christians may think much of themselves. Growing Christians think themselves nothing. Mature Christians know that they are less than nothing. The more holy we are, the more we mourn our infirmities, and the humbler is our estimate of ourselves.
If you cannot trust God for the temporal, how dare you trust him for the eternal?
Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.
Remember that thought is speech before God.
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