Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame,
if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
Knowledge of God can be fully given to man only in a Person, never in a doctrine.
Faith is not the holding of correct doctrine, but personal fellowship with the living God.
The Law requires much, but offers no help in the carrying out of its requirements.
The Lord Jesus requires just as much, yea more (Matt. 5:21–48). But what He requires from us,
He Himself carries out in us. The Law makes demands and leaves us helpless to fulfill them; Christ makes demands,
but He Himself fulfills in us the very demands He makes.”
Let me say from conviction that tears are the outlet of the heart.
The glory which God had in the beginning, even the unapproachable glory of God, was also the Son's glory.
The Father and the Son exist equally and are equal in power and possession.
Whenever man touches God's delegated authority he touches God within that person; sinning against delegated authority is sinning against God.
The reason for so many defeats in the spiritual realm is because this sector of the soul has not been dealt with drastically.
From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents.
In like manner we do not need to be instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the
Living Water which Jesus Christ will give us and which alone can satisfy our souls.
The Cross bears those who bear the cross.
If indeed there had been anything better and more profitable to the health of men than to suffer,
Christ would surely have shown it by word and example.
Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul.
We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination,
but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness.
True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.
Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire,
leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what we had thought to be prayer.
It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.
It is not that we keep His commandments first, and that then He loves; but that He loves us, and then we keep His commandments.
This is that grace, which is revealed to the humble, but hidden from the proud.
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body.
How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a
person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room,
I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.
I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest and frequent in them, who gives not alms according to his ability.
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees.
If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?
Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
There remains for us only the very narrow way, often extremely difficult to find,
of living every day as though it were our last, and yet living in faith and responsibility as though there
were to be a great future.
The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.
At his ascension our Lord entered heaven, and he keeps the door open for humanity to enter.
Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist.
We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen,
will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us and to others through us.
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
It is a shame for a person to have been a Christian for years but not to have advanced beyond the knowledge of his salvation.
Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to
understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.
What are our lame praises in comparison with His love? Nothing, and less than nothing; but love will stammer rather than be dumb.
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