Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.
I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.
Earth's blackest day and earth's brightest day are only three days apart.
In the ordinary church it is suppressed by respectability by a desire to appear better than we really are.
Abundant living means abundant giving.
Grace is free but when once you take it you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.
Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.
God doesn't have any grandchildren.
When Satan attacks you command him in the Name of Jesus to bend his neck. On the back of it you'll find there's a nail scarred foot print!
When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings he can always find joy in spite of them.
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.
To live by worry is to live against reality
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
The conscious mind determines the actions the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
Whatever our creed we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
When man listens God speaks; when man obeys God acts; when man prays God empowers.
When we think of the ideal we do not add virtue to virtue but think of Jesus Christ so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
We find sooner or later that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.
Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.
God to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream through heredity. Your parents can give you much but they cannot give you this.
An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.
The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it
Whatever we focus on determines what we become.
In the prayer time the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.
We grow small trying to be great.
Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We the total person co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God and God reaches down to you.
We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom - the Kingdom belongs to us.
Everybody who belongs to Christ belongs to everybody who belongs to Christ
A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe and my knees bend before him.
Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
When you pray you begin to feel the sense of being sent.
If you don't surrender to Christ you surrender to chaos.
To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear then fear rules the child.
A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.
When I met Christ I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.
The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good hate by love and the world by a cross.
When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit then the reaction is Christian.
Christianity not only saves you from sin but from cynicism.
Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.
An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost the other a corpse.
The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.
At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
When we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.
The early Christians did not say in dismay 'Look what the world has come to ' but in delight 'Look what has come to the world!â?
Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up taken care of for their own ends they are dead.
Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want except more of Him?
Be victorious in the home and you are victorious everywhere.
The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.
The BIBLE redirects my will cleanses my emotions enlightens my mind and quickens my total being
Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.
I have only to be true to the highest I know-success of failure is in the hand of God.
When prayer fades out power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more no less.
If you find something that gets hold of you in the Word pass it on to somebody that very day.
We are personalities in the making limited and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we at very best will make many mistakes but these mistakes need not be sins.
Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will.
We must be willing to be guided of God not merely now and then but as a life proposition.
You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.
Grace makes you gracious. The Giver makes you give.
The universe does not make sense without God.
The love of God invades me the peace of God pervades me the will of God persuades me and I am wholly His.
If we know how to pray we know how to live.
Jesus will meet me today in the person of someone in need-I must not miss him.
Where sin has abounded in me Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'
If you don't make up your mind your unmade mind will unmake you.
Very often when I haven't faith in my faith I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities when I simply can't. I have to rise to His faith in me.
The Indian is making an amazing discovery namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.
To talk with God no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God no time is lost. Wait on!
Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.
I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.
If you don't surrender to God don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.
Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.
Our intentions may be very good but because the intelligence is limited the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake but not necessarily a sin for sin comes out of a wrong intention.