“Unquestionably, part of our failure today is religious activity that is not preceded by aloneness, by inactivity.”

“It requires great care and a true knowledge of ourselves to distinguish a spiritual burden from religious irritation.”

“Thomas Carlyle, following Plato, pictures a man, a deep pagan thinker, who had grown to maturity in some hidden cave and is brought out suddenly to see the sun rise. “What would his wonder be,” exclaims Carlyle, “his rapt astonishment at the sight we daily witness with indifference! With the free, open sense of a child, yet with the ripe faculty of a man, his whole heart would be kindled by that sight.... This green flowery rock-built earth, the trees, the mountains, rivers, many-sounding seas; that great deep sea of azure that swims overhead; the winds sweeping through it; the black cloud fashioning itself together, now pouring out fire, now hail and rain; what is it? Ay, what? At bottom we do not yet know; we can never know at all.”  How different are we who have grown used to it, who have become jaded with a satiety of wonder. “It is not by our superior insight that we escape the difficulty,” says Carlyle, “it is by our superior levity, our inattention, our want of insight. It is by not thinking that we cease to wonder at it.... We call that fire of the black thundercloud electricity, and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it? Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”  These penetrating, almost prophetic,”

“the sovereign right of the Holy Spirit to call whom He will.”

“Any religious experience that fails to deepen our love for our fellow Christians may safely be written off as spurious.”

“The first step down for any church is taken when it surrenders its high opinion of God.”

“The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles…. Things will get no better until we get back to the realized presence and power of the Holy Spirit.”

“we can never escape the external stimuli that cause vexation.”

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“Only when we have moral application are we in the Bible method! When we give ourselves seriously to Bible study, we discover the Holy Spirit’s method. “This is what God did, and this is what God did. Therefore, this is what you ought to do!” That is always the Bible way.”

“Sin, I repeat, in addition to anything else it may be, is always an act of wrong judgment.”

“What possible meaning can the self-existence of God have for me and others like me in a world such as this and in times such as these?” To this I reply that, because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological. Some knowledge of what kind of God it is that operates the universe is indispensable to a sound philosophy of life and a sane outlook on the world scene.”

“It is a cheering thought that Christ can adapt Himself to any race or age or people. He will give life and light to any man or woman anywhere in the world regardless of doctrinal emphasis or prevailing religious customs, provided that man or woman takes Him as”

“Therefore we conclude that whatever tends to separate us in person or in heart from our fellow Christians is not of God, but is of the flesh or of the devil.”

“Always the most revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God, just as her most significant message is what she says about Him or leaves unsaid, for her silence is often more eloquent than her speech.”

“Let us look out calmly upon the world; or better yet, let us look down upon it from above where Christ is seated and we are seated in Him.”

“Sin sees only today, or at most tomorrow; never the day after tomorrow, next month or next year.”

“We Christians must stop apologizing for our moral position and start making our voices heard, exposing sin for the enemy of the human race which it surely is and setting forth righteousness and true holiness as the only worthy pursuits for moral beings.”

“Among the sins to which the human heart is prone, hardly any other is more hateful to God than idolatry, for idolatry is at bottom a libel on His character. The”

“Divine revelation through the inspired Scriptures offers data which lie altogether outside of and above the power of the mind to discover. The mind can make its deductions after it has received these data by faith, but it cannot find them by itself.”