John G. Lake Quotes - Page 2

The wonder is that Jesus purposed to make your heart and mine just as sweet and lovely and pure and holy as His own.

The invitation is not, "Give Me thine head." The invitation is, "My Son, give Me thine heart."

Science is the discovery of how God does things.

Lord, take every cursed thing out of my soul that keeps me from believing the Lord Jesus Christ

Sanctification is possessing the mind of Christ.

Take the words of Jesus and let them become the Supreme Court of the Gospel to you.

The thing that was forfeited in the garden was regained. God gave him [Adam] dominion over the works of His hand. God made him His understudy, His king to rule over everything that had life. Man was master, man lived in the realm of god. He lived on terms of equality with God. God was a faith God. All God had to do was to believe that the sun was, and the sun was. All God had to do was to believe that the planets would be, and they were. Man belonged to God's class of being - a faith man, And he lived in the creative realm of God

There is only one reality. That reality is God. The soul of man must contact God, and unless the spirit of man is truly joined to God, there is no such thing as real Christian manifestation.

If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should do, it can only be when we enter into that Divine compassion of the Son of God.

It is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner, I say in my heart, "God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is."

Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.

Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross of Jesus Christ has put more heroism in the souls of men than any other event in human history.

The Spirit of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God.

I feel that very frequently prayer is made a refuge to dodge the action of faith.

The power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion. It makes one a god.

We live that our souls may grow. The development of the soul is the purpose of existence. God Almighty is trying to obtain some decent association for Himself.

Think of Jonathan Edwards who thundered the terrors of God and what Hell was like until men grasped their seats and hung on to them, fearing they were falling into Hell itself. Men were moved by fear to escape damnation. That was believed to be Christianity. Why any coward wanted to keep out of Hell. He might not have had one idea in his soul of what was the real true earmark of Christianity.

There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has outgrown it.

A holy mind cannot repeat a vile thing, let alone be the creator of a vile suggestion.

God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is.