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Faith is the refusal to panic.
A revival means days of heaven upon earth.
Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.
Faith always shows itself in the whole personality.
The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.
If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin.
The gospel is meant to control and govern everything in our lives.
Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all.
Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.
Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.
To love to preach is one thing; to love to whom you preach is quite another.
There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.
Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.
People who think that once they are converted all will be happy, have forgotten Satan.
If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.
All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures.
The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.
The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.
If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.
Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.
This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.
The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.
Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.
If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."
A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.
The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.
The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.
There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.
The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.
What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.
The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.
Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.
You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?
People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.
We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God.
The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?
I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fullness and in Him alone.
We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.
You are either a Christian or you are not a Christian; you cannot be partly a Christian. You are either "dead" or "alive"; you are either "born" or "not born".
There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.
We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.
There is a very real danger of our putting our faith in our sermon rather than in the Spirit. Our faith should not be in the sermon, it should be in the Holy Spirit Himself.
God permits war in order that men may bear the consequences of their sins as punishment. How clearly this is shown time and time again in the story of the children of Israel!
You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.
The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.
The gospel is not something partial or piecemeal: it takes in the whole life, the whole of history, the whole world. It tells us about creation and the final judgment and everything in between.