God is more concerned with the state of people's hearts than He is with the state of their feelings.

The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men.

The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people.

God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That is where we are, even in the evangelical churches, and I don't mind telling you that most of the people we say we are trying to reach will never come to a church to see a lot of amateur actors putting on a home-talent show.

It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout the world. As a Christian minister, I have no right to preach to people I have not prayed for. That is my strong conviction.

People have faith in 'faith' and largely forget that our confidence is not in the power of faith but in the Person and work of the Savior, Jesus Christ.

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

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the yard, but that is not a guarantee of knowing the truth. Truth is not a text. Truth is in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Spirit to bring truth to a human soul.

People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own.

Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.

The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and did it. Their people followed them - sometimes to triumph, oftener to insults and public persecution - and their sufficient reward was the satisfaction of being right in a wrong world!

God works as long as His people live daringly; He ceases when they no longer need His aid.

O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen.

Spiritual Christians look upon the world not as a playground but as a battleground.

We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.

We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.

Man must choose his world

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

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.

We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come...this is not the end.

God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds.

The more fascinated we become with the toys of this world, the more we forget that there's another world to come.

God is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from.

The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.

But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of Christ and which is being spread all over the world by unspiritual men employing unscriptural methods to achieve their ends.

Christians must understand most emphatically that the world around us is in conflict with the Word within us.

The Christian is a holy rebel loose in the world with access to the throne of God.

Any doctrine that makes the world your friend is not your friend.

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world

The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind.

The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly, and the peace of God scarcely at all.

God is speaking. He is, by His nature, continuously articulate. He fills the world with His speaking voice.

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.

Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.

We tend by a secret law of the soul to move towards our mental image of God.

The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source.

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.

When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.

Maybe God is calling you to do something extraordinary that isn't on your calendar; something to revive your soul!

We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.

Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.

God desires and is pleased to communicate with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the souls of the redeemed men and women is the throbbing heart of the New Testament.

All great Christians have been wounded souls.

Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the selfsufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.