[Taken from his Bible]
Some take life for granted, but others take it with gratitude.
If we have faith, we will trust God. If we are faithful, God will trust us.
We can be as near to God as we want; He’ll be as near as we allow.
2nd Samuel 14:14 We must be poured out. We cannot withhold it or retain it. Drop by drop, day by day, our lives are poured out and cannot be lived over again. But we have the choice where: inside or outside the will of God.
A man who committed suicide in an Illinois prison left a note saying “The world knows how many times I have failed, but only God knows how many times I have tried”.
Thoughts come as strangers; if we entertain them, they become guests. If we allow them to remain, they become Masters.
Pride is only for this life. Who could be proud in a lost eternity? Who could be anything but humble in the presence of God? No one yet ever choked from swallowing their pride.
The price of the eternal home is the price of making a home in our hearts here and now for the Spirit of God.
Expressions of a child: I don’t know anything; teach me. I can’t do anything; help me. I can’t live alone; abide with me.
Take time to make time while time lasts. For all time will be no time when time is past.
The Gospel brings a message that tells how we can exchange that which is limited for what God has that is unlimited.
A bell is no bell until you ring it. A song is no song until you sing it. Love is not put in your heart to stay, for love is not love until you give it away.
The heart of us is the part of us that makes us either right or wrong.
We need to be glad for those who have worn the mantle worthily, like Elijah. When some are taken from us, we who are left need to take up the mantle and wear it worthily.
It is not so hard to bring sacrifices, but what is more important is to be a sacrifice.
Man came from dust and goes back to dust and yet is so proud. Jesus came from heaven and went back to heaven, yet was so humble.
The Gospel is a fact, so it is best told simply, with all confidence. It is Good News, so it can and should be told cheerfully. It is a Trust, so it should be told faithfully. It concerns people’s eternal future, so it should be told earnestly. It is a story of the deepest kind of love, divine love, so it should be told with feeling. It is a story to many that is difficult to comprehend; so, as Jesus did, it should be told with illustration. It is all about Jesus, so we need to preach Christ.
The purpose of all Gospel preachers is to awaken interest, stir the heart, and move the will to surrender to Christ.
The dying life is still the kernel of the story of His love and way.
We could make the mistake of making friends for ourselves and not friends for our Master.
Farmers need to love the soil; we as God’s servants need to love people.
We’ve often said I am willing to go with anyone. But are we the kind of person that anyone would be happy to go with us?
The virtue of life is not in the length of life but in the quality of it.
It is so easy to defend our ways rather than amend our ways.
There is a lot of correction on the road to perfection.
We believe in unity but not in uniformity.
The Fruit of the Spirit flourishes in the soil of crucified flesh.
God looks for our affection more than our perfection.
Some people ask why God asks so much when life is so short. The real question should be: Why does God ask so little when Eternity is so long?
To dream of the person that you would like to be could waste the person that you are.
When we get to Heaven and see all He left, only then will we be able to appreciate His sacrifice.
Those who desire to be first deserve to be last.
If we face the light, all the shadows fall behind. Walk away from the light, and the shadows are there to affright. Light does not change nor demand anything, but it shows how things are and makes changes possible if we want to make changes.
Peter sometimes did not get a very good grade on the tests he faced, but he did not drop out of school, and the Master did not consider expelling him. This should encourage us as we strive to be approved one day.
A watchman knows that the danger he warns others about is also a danger to himself.
Columbus would not have been blamed if he had turned back, but no one would have remembered him.
We have nothing to do with WHERE, WHEN or HOW we die. But we have everything to do with HOW WE LIVE before we die.
We can be glad that some areas of life remain beyond man’s power to make or mar. The babbling brook has been harnessed, the mountains stripped of their garments of trees, the atom studied and split, but nothing has touched the rainbow in the sky.
The world fears guided missiles. What it needs to fear more are misguided men and women!
Jesus said I am the way. We are the clay. Now is the day.
Matthew 7 tells of the wrong kind of people trying to refresh God’s memory. Matthew 25 tells of the right kind of people, God refreshing their memories of things that they had forgotten, but God remembered forever.
Just think: some night, the stars will gleam upon a cold grey stone, and trace a name in silver beam, and Lo! ‘Twill be your own!
The Gospel is a matter of one beggar telling another beggar where to get bread.
Because the ocean is a cruel sea does not limit its usefulness. A ship that has power within it and a captain to guide it can stay on top of the water until the day its sailing is over.
Silently and imperceptibly, we grow either stronger and stronger or weaker and weaker. Until some crisis comes and we find out what we have become.
True Christianity is the seed of Divinity in the soil of Humanity.
In the heart of the bulb is the hope of the spring.
In the little blue egg is a bird that will sing.
In the heart of the seed is the hope of God.
In the heart of His child is the Kingdom of God.
Truth Archive 