There is another book kept by the One who never slumbers nor forgets, and in that book the anonymous great have their names as well as their deeds recorded. After all, a deed without a name is better than a name without a deed.
The true follower of Christ will not ask, “If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?”Rather he will say, “This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!”
If we would but quickly surrender to the will of God we could the sooner begin to enjoy His blessings.
Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during the days of his sinning God kept the door of mercy open by refusing to accept any of his evil acts as final.
It is the Spirit of Christ in us that will draw Satan’s fire. The people of the world will not much care what we believe, and they will stare vacantly at our religious forms, but there is one thing they will never forgive us, the presence of God’s Spirit in our hearts.
The glory of God is the health of the universe; the essential soundness of things requires that He be honored among created intelligences.
The depths of a man’s spirituality may be known quite accurately by the quality of his public prayers.
To get to the truth I recommend a plain text Bible and the diligent application of two knees to the floor. Beware of too many footnotes. The rabbis of Israel took to appending notes to the inspired text, with the result that a great body of doctrine grew up which finally crowded out the Scriptures themselves.
The warfare of the Christian is like foreign missions, romantic to talk about but drably realistic to live through.
It is a dangerous and costly practice to consult men every time we reach a dark spot in the Scriptures. We do not overlook the importance of the gift of teaching to the Church, but we do warn against the habit of taking by blind faith the opinions of men—even good men. A few minutes of earnest prayer will often give more light than hours of reading the commentaries. The best rule is: Go to God first about the meaning of any text. Then consult the teachers. They may have found a grain of wheat you had overlooked.
We have been redeemed not by one Person of the Trinity pitting Himself against another, but by the three Persons working in the ancient and glorious harmony of the Godhead.
Most Christians, I find, help each other very little in ordinary conversation, and often do each other much harm. There are few who can talk for any length of time without descending to speech that is not only unprofitable but positively harmful.
While I have no doubt that the grace which has followed me since my boyhood will continue with me while I live on earth and for an eternity after, I have enjoyed already enough of Gods benefits to supply me with matter for constant praise for at least a thousand years to come. If God were to close my account tomorrow and refuse any longer to honor me with His favors, the circumstances of His grace to me so far would require that I should still thank Him unceasingly with tears of honest gratitude.
The glory of God is the health of the universe; the essential soundness of things requires that He be honored among created intelligences.
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