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Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.

Some books claiming to be exhaustive are only exhausting to read.

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.

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? (Gal. 3:3).

He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.

Ignoble contentment takes the place of burning zeal.

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.

Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.

But first of all we must will, for the will is master of the heart.

Love casts out fear, for when we know we are loved, we are not afraid. Whoever has God's perfect love, fear is gone out of the universe for him.

Then he should remember that this is holy business. No careless or casual dealings will suffice.

Let us believe that God is in all our simplest deeds and learn to find Him there.

You." So they said, "You'll kill our poor women. You'll kill our children." This is

Man must choose his world

We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood.

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

A loving Personality dominates the Bible, walking among the trees of the garden and breathing fragrance over every scene.

God breathed on clay and it became a man; He breathes on men and they become clay.

As all man's work is done by his mind, so the work of the Church is done by the Spirit, and by Him alone.

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

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly
has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

True worship that is pleasing to God creates within the human heart a spirit of expectation and insatiable longing.

Acquaint thyself with God.

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

Perception of ideas rather than the storing of them should be the aim of education.

His supreme purpose in making man was to have somebody capable to properly and sufficiently worship Him and satisfy His own heart.

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.

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.

Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there?

The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one.

If we truly want to follow God, we must seek to be otherworldly.

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there.

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone.

He antedates time and is wholly independent of it. Time began in Him and will end in Him.

Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one

My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. - Psa. 63:8

Wherever we are, God is here. There is no place, there can be no place, where He is not.

Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth.

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

When God plans to bless a man, he takes this poor time-cursed creature into His hand and says., My son, I breath into you eternity and immortality.

I see the time coming when all the holy men whose eyes have been opened by the Spirit will desert worldly Evangelicalism, one by one.

When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself.

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.

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.

Every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.

That I may know Him, was the goal of his heart, and to this he sacrificed everything.

The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment.

Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist.

What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends

Religion, so far as it is genuine, is in essence the response of created personalities to the Creating Personality, God.

Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning. hosea 6:3

We have been snared in the coils of spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him, we need no more seek Him.

Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.

Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us ...

When He returns is not as important as the fact that we are ready for Him when He does return.

Whatever comes into your heart and mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you.

Deity indwelling men! That, I say is Christianity!

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.

God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

Nothing on the outside compares to Thy presence on my inside.

Father, I want to know Thee, but my coward heart fears to give up its toys.

Whatever is done without heart is done in the dark, no matter how scriptural it may appear to be

Insist that the work be done in very truth and it will be done. The cross is rough, and it is deadly, but it is effective.

Religious work can be done by natural men without the gifts of the Spirit, and it can be done well and skillfully.

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.

There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.

Our thoughts are the decorations inside the sanctuary where we live.

We are right when and only when we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love.

To seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous.

The whole course of the life is upset by failure to put God where He belongs. We exalt ourselves instead of God and the curse follows.

As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God.

There is only one way to make good on an intention, and that is to turn it into action.

To think without a proper amount of good reading is to limit our thinking to our own tiny plot of ground.

Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.

Though free from all sense of possessing, they yet possess all things. Theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

[Sadly] the first thing we tell our young converts, the babes in Christ, is, 'Here is a handful of tracts- now get out and get busy!

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

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.

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

The Bible is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is NOW SPEAKING.

As long as Christ sits on the mediatorial throne, every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation. Neither

We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

Those who have truly seen Christ in His glory have eyes for nothing else.

It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table.

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God,

The great unseen reality is God