 The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love. Topics: God, Prayer, Love |
| The greatest test of whether the holiness we profess to seek or to attain is truth and life will be whether it produces an increasing humility in us. In man, humility is the one thing needed to allow God's holiness to dwell in him and shine through him. The chief mark of counterfeit holiness is lack of humility. The holiest will be the humblest. Topics: Holiness, Humility |
| Men ought to seek with their whole hearts to be filled with the Spirit of God. Without being filled with the Spirit, it is utterly impossible that an individual Christian or a church can ever live or work as God desires. Topics: Holy Spirit |
| We had long known the Lord without realizing that meekness and lowliness of heart should be the distinguishing feature of the disciple. Topics: Humility, Meekness, The Heart |
| Just as a servant knows that he must first obey his master in all things, so the surrender to an implicit and unquestionable obedience must become the essential characteristic of our lives. Topics: Obedience, Holiness, Surrender |
| God has no more precious gift to a church or an age than a man who lives as an embodiment of his will, and inspires those around him with the faith of what grace can do. Topics: Obedience |
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| Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Topics: Prayer, Unbelief |
| Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God. Topics: Prayer, Fasting, Sacrifice |
| Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue. Gods voice in response to mine is its most essential part. Topics: Prayer |
| We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God. Topics: Prayer, God |
| Abiding fully means praying much. Topics: Prayer |
| When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love. Topics: Prayer, Weakness, Victory |
