Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
We all need love, but we need it most when we deserve it least —
when we have sinned against someone, when we have made poor choices, when we have failed.
In these situations, ordinary love must become extra-ordinary love.
Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.
God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.
The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a
nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
God does not waste suffering; if he ploughs it is because He purposes a crop.
Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with Him who alone can deliver us from solitude.
The heart is rich when it is content, and it is always content when its desires are fixed on God.
All worry is atheism, because it is want of trust of God.
Cure yourself of the condition of bothering about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.
There is never any peace for those who resist God.
We are because He is.
A Christian is a keyhole through which other folk see God.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Oh forgive us Lord, for so often we seek the things in your hand rather than the things of your heart.
I tell you, if you are serious about wanting to be like Christ, He is going to put you in circumstances where
your only true choice is to become like Him.
Faith is believing in advance what can only be understood in reverse.
God is more disposed to move on an admitted emptiness than a presumed fullness.
Life offers many choices. Eternity offers only two.
It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence.
That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get.
If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey.
You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables, — of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and most of all, things unfair.
It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way,
but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty.
Concepts create idols, only wonder grasps anything.
The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.
Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.
The vine dresser is never nearer the vine than when He is pruning it.
When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead us to worship God, filling our inner being with a fullness we would never have thought possible. Awe prepares the way in us for the power of God to transform us and this transformation of our inner attitudes can only take place when awe leads us in turn to wonder, admiration, reverence, surrender, and obedience toward God.
Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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