Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.
The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.
Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God.
Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone.
We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people. We must never get out of touch with them if we are going to use the Word of God skillfully amongst them and if the Holy Spirit is to apply the Word of God through us.
Prayer is an effort of will.
If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.
Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
God's end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now.
It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.
We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.
A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.
It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.
God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.
Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.
Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.
We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.
Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.
You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.
Jesus Christ founded His Kingdom on the weakest link of all-a Baby.
Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?
Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
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