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You can't find the answers on the bottom of a whiskey glass, but if you look hard enough you'll forget the questions.
Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.
He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.
Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians.
God deliver me from the dread asbestos of “other things.” Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.
The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.
If we are interested in Christ by faith, notwithstanding our imperfections and sins, God will be our God through grace.
There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.
Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.
I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.
Surely those who know the great passionate heart of Jehovah must deny their own loves to share in the expression of His.
I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.
A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.
I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.
God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.
Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.
He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose.
Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
If you see someone taking responsibility, give that person authority. If you see someone looking for authority, watch out!
Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none
The devil wants to convince you that dying is the worst thing. It is very much easier to do what god made you for than not.
It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.
Be merry, really merry. The life of a true Christian should be a perpetual jubilee, a prelude to the festivals of eternity.
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?
I often think that God must have been looking for someone small enough and weak enough for Him to use, and that He found me.
Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.
Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.
The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.
Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself
I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God
The word which denotes the act of baptizing, according to the usage of Greek writers, uniformly signifies or implies immersion.
When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.
Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up.
As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.
I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.
Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.
Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.
The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey God.
The simple program of Christ for winning the whole world is to make each person he touches magnetic enough with love to draw others.
There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says.
It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create.
You have been saying much about Dr. Carey and his work. When I am gone, say nothing about Dr. Carey; speak about Dr. Carey's Saviour.
The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.
Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.
I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.
Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men.