I want my life to look less like the world and more like Christ.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Jesus came for the sick, we are his nursing staff!
“He was not like an independent being…The Son is in full union with the Father,
does nothing without the Father, but does whatsoever He sees the Father do.”
My Savior came to trade the horror of my sin for His eternal life.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
If your God never disagrees with you, you might just be worshiping an idealized version of yourself.
Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is doing it, and right is right, even if nobody is doing it.
Don’t feel bad if people only remember you when they need you.
Feel privileged that you are like a candle that comes to their mind when they’re in
darkness.
To be right with God often means to be in trouble with men.
You are to follow no man further than he follows Christ.
I want to be a part of a church that lives out the gospel of Christ every day,
not just talks about it one day a week.
God wants all of you, not just your Sunday morning.
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense - that neither makes the hearer displeased
with himself nor with the preacher.
If Jesus feared guilt by association, he would have stayed in heaven.
Your behavior outside the church is what people will see, and it's what will draw them to Christ.
Stand at the foot of the cross, and count the purple drops by which you have been cleansed;
see the thorn-crown; mark His scourged shoulders, still gushing with encrimsoned rills…
And if you do not lie prostrate on the ground before that cross, you have never seen it.
The Church is a hospital for sinners and not a museum for Saints.
We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out,
"We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself
to be known and worshipped.
We profess that we know God, but by works we deny Him; for beatitude doth not consist in the knowledge of divine things,
but in a divine life, for the devils know them better than man.
We see in the risen Christ the end for which man was made, and the assurance that the end is within our reach.
Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another, sadness or a troubled face.
There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art.
And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.
The Church on earth is a cross-eyed church, with one eye on God in His heavenly benediction,
and one eye on the needy world of men.
It is to no purpose to boast of Christ, if we have not an evidence of His graces in our hearts and lives.
But unto whom He is the hope of future glory, unto them He is the life of present grace.
It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people; "for the kingdom of God consisteth in simplicity of faith, not in wordy contention.
A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.
The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in
our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all;
it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it.
Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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