The Gospel is not a way to get people to Heaven, it is firstly a way to get people to God.
A prayer Church is a powerful Church.
Love finds us where we are and not where we were…
Comparison is the thief of joy.
First job of leadership is to love people, without love leadership is manipulation.
If you are full of the Holy Spirit, you have everything you need.
We are born broken. We live mending. The grace of God is the glue.
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us
where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value,
but in thinking man can get them himself without grace.
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.
Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.
In the New Testament grace means God’s love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love.
Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves.
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity.
Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it,
and it is grace itself which makes this void.
Grace saves us from life without God—even more it empowers us for life with God.
God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
Before we can sing God's song, we must fill our lungs with grace.
I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.
If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly,
then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him.
If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced,
and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.
Courage is Contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffended.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely
those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other
world that they have become so ineffective in this.
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot,
without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God,
'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
The only fear I have is to fear to get out of the will of God. Outside of the will of God,
there’s nothing I want, and in the will of God there’s nothing I fear, for God has sworn to keep me in His will.
Rightly understood, faith is not a substitute for moral conduct but a means toward it.
The tree does not serve in lieu of fruit but as an agent by which fruit is secured. Fruit, not trees,
is the end God has in mind in yonder orchard; so Christ-like conduct is the end of Christian faith.
In some circles, God has been abridged, reduced, modified, edited,
changed and amended until He is no longer the God whom Isaiah saw, high and lifted up.
No matter what the circumstances, we Christians should keep our heads. God has not given us the spirit of fear,
but of power, of love and of a sound mind. It is a dismal thing to see a son of heaven cringe in terror before
the sons of earth.
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