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Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.
Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.
The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.
We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.
One thing the young Christian should be taught as quickly as possible after his conversion is that Jesus Christ is all he needs.
Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, yet love inflames our hearts and constrains us to speak.
Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him.
Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of God.
The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.
God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.
If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.
God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God
Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.
Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.
We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.
Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days!
I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.
The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people.
The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.
Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.
At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.
If you cannot worship the Lord in the midst of your responsibilitie s on Monday, it is not very likely that you were worshiping on Sunday!
The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.
The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God- not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice.
The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.
When a person, yielding to God and believing the truth of God, is filled with the Spirit of God, even his faintest whisper will be worship.
The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.
Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.
Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.
Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.
As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.
It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right.
For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.
To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.
Jesus our Lord is Prophet, Priest, and King. The concept is not new, yet many preachers never preach it, and many congregations never hear it.
Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.
We can seek God and find him! God is knowable, touchable, hearable, seeable, with the mind, the hands, the ears and the eyes of the inner man.
The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons.
When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.
The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.
We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.
We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too much faith or too much holiness.
Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.
Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord when we labor using His enablement for His glory.