“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”
“One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization
do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team.”
“I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion...
I want all that God has or I don't want any.”
“Rules for Self Discovery:
1. What we want most;
2. What we think about most;
3. How we use our money;
4. What we do with our leisure time;
5. The company we enjoy;
6. Who and what we admire;
7. What we laugh at.”
“Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.”
“Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.”
“I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God,
that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.”
“Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth,
I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already.
God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums
I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me.”
“The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because
they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders,
and interfering with God's work within us. ”
“The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable,
arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep,
and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall,
the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source.”
“We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail.
The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.”
“True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.”
“We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.”
“The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.”
“O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more.
I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire.
O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing;
I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that
I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul,
‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow
Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.”
“Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.”
“The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly
has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.”
“A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God.
This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.”
“Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist.”
“An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children.
He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as
fully as if there were no others.”
“Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.”
“What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.”
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