Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.
The atonement in Jesus Christ's blood is perfect; there isn't anything that can be added to it. It is spotless, impeccable, flawless. It is perfect as God is perfect.
Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.
True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.
God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.
He (God) may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is.
The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures.
Jesus came not to condemn, but to reclaim.
As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God.
As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor. It can keep a missionary actively winning lost men to the light of the gospel and thus transmute itself into heavenly values. Any temporal possession can be turned into everlasting wealth. Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality.
Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.
We often try to put God in a box. The God who fits in our boxes isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.
Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.
Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity.
If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.
Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.
It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right.
In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.
One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God.
When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.
Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.
[Prayer] takes no time, but it occupies all our time.
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