The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!”
Surrender the thing you fear into the hands of God. Turn it right over to God and ask Him to solve it with you. Fear is keeping things in your own hands; faith is turning them over into the hands of God.
When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.
A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.
Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.
When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.
When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God’s idea of God, and God’s idea of God is Christ
You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.
When we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.
If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.
Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you
The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it
The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.
Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.
The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.
To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on!
If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.
Jesus will meet me today in the person of someone in need-I must not miss him.
The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being
An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.
The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.
Very often when I haven't faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can't. I have to rise to His faith in me.
