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- Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.
- We must hide our unholiness in the wounds of Christ as Moses hid himself in the cleft of the rock while the glory of God…
- Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in…
- Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
- If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the…
- 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 constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does not enter here,…
- Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets a wrong answer…
- What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they…
- The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess…
- Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers…
- I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any…
- What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course…
- Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.
- Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His creatures that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray…
- Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word…
- To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not…
- The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy…
- I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept…
- The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God- not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an…
- There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its…
- Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher.
- Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.
- Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us, yet if we withhold ourselves from that blood, we will be unclean forever.
- A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.
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