People who are obsessed with Jesus aren't consumed with their personal safety and comfort above all else. Obsessed people care more about God's kingdom coming to this earth than their own lives being shielded from pain or distress.
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.
Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.
The Lord's appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and look forward to it with earnest expectation and joy.
Hang that question up in your houses, "What would Jesus do?" and then think of another, "How would Jesus do it?" for what he would do, and how he would do it, may always stand as the best guide to us.
We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.
Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit.
There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.
Leading with integrity is embracing honesty! We should always use our weaknesses to point others to Christ's strength.
Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.
They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
The Holy Spirit is a healing spirit. When the Holy Spirit is present, anything is possible.
The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.
The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.
Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our own souls, but that we might become co-workers with our Lord and Master in the conversion of the world?
The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.
How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him
The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.
Give Him your mess and let it become your message.
Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.
The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.
A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.
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