We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.
There is nothing worse than a life filled with adversity from which nothing good ever comes.
Wisdom is the capacity to see things from God's viewpoint.
We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.
God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.
The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the Lord.
I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.
In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.
Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.
Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.
True intimacy with God always brings humility.
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
He (Jesus) became what we are that He might make us what He is.
You can't really live until you are no longer afraid to die.
You can be too big for God to use, but you can never be too small for God to use.
Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life" can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?"
Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you
If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.
Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan.
The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power.
You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you’ve got one you’re trying to argue it away. People who don’t believe in miracles shouldn’t pray for them.
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.
There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.
Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.
If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.
It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal.
God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!
If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.
There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.
We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live.
Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?
Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
God not only orders our steps, He orders our stops.
Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.
Your words can permanently influence a life.
When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.
While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.
There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says.
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
Love begins with listening.
Right now counts forever.
Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology
Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.
Go, send, or disobey.
Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.
God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.
We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.
Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
There is no wisdom but that which is focused on the fear of God.
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.
How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it...
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end
Faith is not about how much you believe in what you believe. Faith is about believing that the One you believe in is believable.
Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.
God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.
Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.
The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.
It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.