The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.
Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion,
a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.
Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.
God is in the hypocrite's mouth, but the world is in his heart.
Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out
the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist.
If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.
Our Father dwells in tents as well as in temples, but His favorite abiding-place is in the hearts of mankind.
If the blind put their hand in God's they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship.
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Christianity must mean everything to us before it can mean anything to others.
Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects’.
Unless we know the difference between flowers and weeds, we are not fit to take care of a garden.
It is not enough to have truth planted in our minds. We must learn and labor to keep the ground clear of
thorns and briars, follies and perversities, which have a wicked propensity to choke the word of life.
Sanctification is glory begun. Glory is sanctification completed.
One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving.
It's an awesome thing: To be died for.
It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.
Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust
our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.
Jesus Christ is a peacemaker. So, if we want to be God's children and Christ's disciples, we must be peacemakers too.
The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves at home here on earth.
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life, but has also spoken for us by his death.
The Gospel is good news of mercy to the undeserving. The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.
Christians have to look more redeemed, if the world is to believe in our Redeemer.
Nothing under God's control is ever out of control.
Outside of Christ, I am weak; in Christ, I am strong.
Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.
I have this theory that if one person shows compassion to another then that person will start a chain reaction of the same.
The phrase "God is good" cannot be reserved for those moments when life turns out the way we had hoped.
Beware of cut-and-dried theologies that reduce the ways of God to a manageable formula that keeps life safe.
God often does the unexplainable just to keep us on our toes — and also on our knees.
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