 The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos. Topics: Morality, Life, The Heart |
| Don't come down here to cry about it, go home and live it! Topics: Obedience |
| Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience. Topics: Obedience |
| Salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred Scriptures... Apart from obedience there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility. Topics: Obedience |
| The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately became to him an all-absorbing interest, an overwhelming interference. No matter what he may desire to do, there is but one thing he can do; that is, move on toward the place of crucifixion. Topics: Obedience |
| 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! Topics: Obedience, Rewards |
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| Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one. Topics: Prayer, Selfishness |
| Most men, indeed, play at religion as they play at games, religion itself being of all games the one most universally played. Topics: Religion
Source: The Divine Conquest. |
| Religion today is not transforming the people - it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society - it is descending to society's own level and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smiling accepting its surrender. Topics: Religion |
| We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's sufferings! Topics: Resurrection
Source: Renewed Day by Day, Christianity Today, v. 40, n. 4. |
| Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. Topics: Revival, Obedience |
| Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our "accepting" and "willing" are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God. Topics: Salvation, Choices |
