God dwells in the heart where praise is.
I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.
There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.
We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.
Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.
To me, it has always been difficult to understand those evangelical Christians who insist upon living in the crisis as if no crisis existed. They say they serve the Lord, but they divide their days so as to leave plenty of time to play and loaf and enjoy the pleasures of the world as well. They are at ease while the world burns.
The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.
Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when you are compelled to withdraw your conscious attention in order to engage in earthly affairs, there is within you a secret communion always going on.
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace?
If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty.
While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance.
At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.
Christians should be the boldest people in the world-not cocky and sure of ourselves, but sure of Him.
There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.
The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.
Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education.
The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.
A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.
As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.
There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis.
The idea of the divine-human friendship originated with God. Had not God said first 'Ye are my friends?' (John 15:14)
Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.
We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.
God doesn't need anything nevertheless He wants worshipers.
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