God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.

Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian.

We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.

Most Christians would rather be happy than feel the wounds of other peoples' sorrows.

Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.

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.

One thing the young Christian should be taught as quickly as possible after his conversion is that Jesus Christ is all he needs.

We must never edit God.

We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.

Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.

Nothing should so occupy the mind of the Christian than discovering God each day.

We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.

If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.

God loves you not because you are worthy, but because He is God and you are a fixture in His mind.

Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.

To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

There are rare Christians whose very presence incites others to be better Christians. I want to be that rare Christian.

It is doubtful we can be Christian in anything unless we are Christian in everything.

Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.

In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.

It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity.

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 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.