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The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.

To see what God is like, we must look at Jesus. He perfectly represents God to men in a form which they can see and know and understand.

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.

It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.

Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.

We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.

True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.

Loyalty to Christ may produce a cross on earth, but it brings a crown in eternity.

The people who get the best out of others are those who insist on seeing them at their best.

Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience.

A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.

More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.

The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.

It is characteristic of modern outlook that we want quick results.

Self-defense is a part of the law of nature;
nor can it be denied the community,
even against the king himself.

Jesus' coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.

There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.

The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.

Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.

Not even God can teach a man who comes to the Bible with his mind made up.

The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.

We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

Jesus promised his disciples three things - that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

Christianity does not look on this world as one which God very occasionally invades; it looks on it as a world from which he is never absent.

Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.

True prayer is asking God what He wants.

Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.

It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.

Strict orthodoxy can cost too much if it has to be bought at the price of love. All the orthodoxy in the world will never take the place of love.

Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.

Real repentance means that a man has come, not only to be sorry for the consequences of his sin, but to hate sin itself.

The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in.

Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

For Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.