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You can always tell when a man is a great ways from God--he is always talking about himself, how good he is. But the moment he sees God by the eye of faith, he is down on his knees, and, like Job, he cries, "Behold I am vile.
God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. Unless you humble yourself before Him in the dust, and confess before Him your iniquities and sins, the gate of heaven, which is open only for sinners, saved by grace, must be shut against you forever.
There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.
What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out anything.
We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.
Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don't want to be heavenly-minded while they live.
The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.
A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don't let us put on any cant, any assumed humility, but let us be real; that is the delight of God. God wants us to be real men and women, and if we profess to be what we are not, God knows all about us. God hates sham.
Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.
The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us.
A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.
A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
