“There is no surrender like to submit to will of the Sovereign Lord.”
“Pray fervently with purposeful petitions.”
“The more you worship, the less you worry.”
“Salvation is man s refuge from sin.”
“Praying is a persuasive plea for mercy.”
“Confession is necessary as cleansing.”
“Forsaken sin is the grace of salvation”
“My only consolation lies in not having any here below.”
“I shall seek God s mercy with all my might.”
“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”
“A marriage which does not constantly crucify its own selfishness and self-sufficiency, which does not ‘die to itself’ that it may point beyond itself, is not a Christian marriage. The real sin of marriage today is not adultery or lack of ‘adjustment’ or ‘mental cruelty.’ It is the idolization of the family itself, the refusal to understand marriage as directed toward the Kingdom of God. This is expressed in the sentiment that one would ‘do anything’ for his family, even steal. The family has here ceased to be for the glory of God; it has ceased to be a sacramental entrance into his presence. It is not the lack of respect for the family, it is the idolization of the family that breaks the modern family so easily, making divorce its almost natural shadow. It is the identification of marriage with happiness and the refusal to accept the cross in it. In a Christian marriage, in fact, three are married; and the united loyalty of the two toward the third, who is God, keeps the two in an active unity with each other as well as with God. Yet it is the presence of God which is the death of the marriage as something only ‘natural.’ It is the cross of Christ that brings the self-sufficiency of nature to its end. But ‘by the cross, joy entered the whole world.’ Its presence is thus the real joy of marriage. It is the joyful certitude that the marriage vow, in the perspective of the eternal Kingdom, is not taken ‘until death parts,’ but until death unites us completely.”
“If I can live without that which I seek, I have errantly chosen to seek something that is not worth seeking.”
“We can wander into a wilderness so vast and entangled that it will consume us or we can plummet to depths dark beyond dark, only to discover that God was sitting there waiting for us before we ever started wandering or falling.”
“Shall I believe in a man yet doubt my Maker? No this ought not to be so.”
“I cannot walk in obedience to what I think. Rather, I must walk in obedience to Who God is.”
“Conviction comes when one meets Christ.”
“A prophet is the eye of the people.”