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The idea of the divine-human friendship originated with God. Had not God said first 'Ye are my friends?' (John 15:14)
We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.
It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.
We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.
Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.
The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.
If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other,isn't that proof that you aren't so concerned about Him?
To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.
Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us
If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.
I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.
There cannot be two absolutely free beings in the universe, for sooner or later two completely free wills must collide.
Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.
When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence.
The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.
There are rare Christians whose very presence incites others to be better Christians. I want to be that rare Christian.
Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].
Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.
God sees us perfect in His Son while He disciplines and chastens and purges us that we may be partakers of His holiness.
God is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from.
No one will make progress with God until our eyes are lifted to the faithfulness of God and we stop looking at ourselves!
God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays.
Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.
Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.
The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.
Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.
God's Kingdom isn't divided into areas of important people and areas of little people. In God's sight, everyone's needful.
This is what you are here for: to glorify God and enjoy Him thoroughly and forever, telling the universe how great God is.
True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.
Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.
Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.
God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.
In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.
Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.
The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one.
We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts
As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.
We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.
All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.
Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.
To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear.
A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.
The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.
We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.