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Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.
Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.
The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.
Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior
Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.
Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.
There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.
It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.
Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.
Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .
Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone.
There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises of God.
We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.
Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?
The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.
The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.
The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.
Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.
The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.
The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.
God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.
There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.
Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.
It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God’s sight than to appear lovely to man’s eyes but lame to God’s.
Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference
'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious.There's only one master of the heart-Jesus, not religion.
No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.
God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.
The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.
Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.
There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.
The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.
We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.