Thoughts

I seek at the beginning to get my heart into such a state that it has no will of its own in regard to a given matter. Nine-tenths of the trouble with people generally is just here ...

Do you read your Bible every day and then meditate on, and enjoy, what you read? If you do, you will be a healthy, nourished Christian with steady spiritual growth...

Do you tremble when God speaks? When was the last time you were physically affected by the reality that almighty God just spoke directly to you?..

I believe one of the chief characteristics of our sinful nature is an attitude of independence toward God...

Oh, to be ever living in a state of holy preparation, the mental eye gazing on the vista-view of an opening heaven, feeling that every moment is bringing us nearer and nearer that happy Home!...

At times we feel as if we could impress God with all we are trying to do for Him and His church. Yet God has yet to be impressed with even the most grandiose human aspirations...

The great problem you have to solve, Jesus has solved for you — to be “in the world, and yet not of it.”...

Does God's Word ever cause you discomfort? When you read the Bible, does what you read make you uneasy? You are experiencing the reality that the Word of God is alive...

How rare, and all the more beautiful because of its rarity, is a purely guileless spirit! A crystalline medium through which the transparent light of heaven comes and goes...

An exalted view of God brings a dear view of sin and a realistic view of self. A diminished view of God brings a reduced concern for sin and an inflated view of self...