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Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.

God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds.

Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.

May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears!

When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.

No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.

Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty.

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.

The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God.

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.

Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can.

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any

What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?

The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.

May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.

No one will make progress with God until our eyes are lifted to the faithfulness of God and we stop looking at ourselves!

We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come ... this is not the end.

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

What is wrong with Christians today is that we have the gifts of God but have forgotten the God of the gifts.

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.

Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.

Wherever faith has eyes to see, there is a smiling presence of the Son of God.

Only a disciple can make a disciple.

I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.

If you want to be changed, read a good book.

We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.

The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.

No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.

We operate by faith, which means that we have confidence in what God says, whether we fully understand it or not

If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.

Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.

A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

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

In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed ... We are to run it with patience.

Always God's goodness is the ground of our expectation.

Beauty is in the eye of the Creator.

It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.

We can take whatever path in worship we choose, but not all paths will end at the feet of Jesus.

Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.

The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons.

The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender.

My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me.

Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.

Maybe God is calling you to do something extraordinary that isn't on your calendar; something to revive your soul!

Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?

It is possible that we can get so busy doing work 'for' the Lord that we have no time FOR the Lord.

In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.

We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself.

Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days!

The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do ... where God is indispensable to me.

I want to live so fully in the Spirit that ... every act of my life may be an act of worship.

What I was saved to is much more important than what I was saved from.

Without worship, we go about miserable.

To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.

If you have believed but not obeyed, you have postponed your Christian life.

God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church
not just say that we do, but actually do it.

The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people.

We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.

Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian.

To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.

The great test of faith is to wait on God ... not expecting to push a button and get whatever we want now.

Refuse to be average.

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

God's plan will continue on God's schedule.

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.

God created our souls to be satisfied only with the divine everlastingness of the Word made flesh.

God expects of us only what He Himself has supplied.

The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.

Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.

Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.

Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.

When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.

Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.

It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably.

Faith never goes contrary to reason
faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

You can blame circumstances, but backsliding always begins in the heart.

Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.

His words are the essence of truth ... Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves-blessed riddance.

Christians should be the boldest people in the world-not cocky and sure of ourselves, but sure of Him.