Compare yourself only with Jesus.
God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.
To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.
If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.
What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day... It would be better to invite God now to remove every false trust, to disengage our hearts from all secret hiding places and to bring us out into the open where we can discover for ourselves whether or not we actually trust Him. That is a harsh cure for our troubles, but it is a sure one. Gentler cures may be too weak to do the work. And time is running out on us.
Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!
Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another
I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God.
Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experience? Of course the will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.
The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.
It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time we spend trying to fix up outward things were spent in getting our hearts right, we would be delighted with the result. Strange as it may seem, harmony within our hearts depends mostly upon our getting into harmony with God.
In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.
The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.
The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"
Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God.
It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.
Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.
The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one.
When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.
God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.
The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.
If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other,isn't that proof that you aren't so concerned about Him?
Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.
