The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know
We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.
I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.
Nothing that comes from God will minister to my pride of self-congratulation. If I am tempted to be complacent and to feel superior because I have had a remarkable vision or an advanced spiritual experience, I should go at once to my knees and repent of the whole thing. I have fallen victim to the enemy.
God is never satisfied with anything less than all.
Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.
To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.
Very few things in life matter.
Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.
Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.
We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.
If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.
A scared world needs a fearless church.
The grace of God is infinite and beyond our ability to measure. His grace has no beginning and therefore no end.
Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.
Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!
Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.
One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.
The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.
Spiritual Christians look upon the world not as a playground but as a battleground.
If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.
Anything that God has declared that we should be we can be.
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
