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Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.

A Christian should put away all defense and make no attempt to excuse himself either in his own eyes or before the Lord. Whoever defends himself will have himself for his defense, and he will have no other. But let him come defenseless before the Lord and he will have for his defender no less than God Himself.

A church can wither as surely under the ministry of soulless Bible exposition as it can where no Bible is given. To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people. Then, and not till then, is it the prophetic word and the man himself a prophet.

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.

All great Christians have been wounded souls.

All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in the world around us His fingerprint of orderliness is evident to anybody who is honest with the facts. If you look at nature, you will discover a mathematical exactness. Without this precision, the entire world would be in utter confusion. One plus one always equals two no matter what part of the universe you happen to be in. And the laws of nature operate in beautiful harmony, a harmony that is ordered by God Himself.

All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with that overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him.

All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.

All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.

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.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children.

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.

Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.

Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is...No.

Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher.

Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is false to the cross of Christ and on the side of the devil.

Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity.

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.

Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?

Artificiality is one curse that will drop away the moment we kneel at Jesus' feet and surrender ourselves to His meekness. Then we will not care what people think of us so long as God is pleased. Then what we are will be everything; what we appear will take its place far down the scale of interest for us. Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.

As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.

A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.

As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor. It can keep a missionary actively winning lost men to the light of the gospel and thus transmute itself into heavenly values. Any temporal possession can be turned into everlasting wealth. Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality.

A scared world needs a fearless church.

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.

As long as Christ sits on the throne, every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation.

As long as we think we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.

A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God Himself is here awaiting our response to His presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon its reality.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God.

A thankful heart cannot be cynical.

A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of [circumstances]... The man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage, but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether ready to follow when the Spirit chooses another to lead.

A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of the external situation.

A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.

At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.