“That He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Church.”

God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit.

If it has come that far, it has come with great purpose.

He will transform you into His likeness. You do the beholding.

The higher the pinnacle of blessing, authority, and publicity he has attained by grace.

The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.

Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own soul.

We will only advance in our evangelistic work as fast and as far as we advance on our knees.

Let me say to you that truth has always lived with the minority; what the majority says at a given moment is usually wrong.

No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.

At that moment He’ll flood your Life with His presence and power.

It is an absolute declaration of the fact that within my heart I have abandoned worship at the Cross.

The help of God does not come to us when we are indifferent.

He deeper and more staggering can be his collapse. There is never a day in any man’s life but that he is dependent upon the grace of God for power and the blood of Jesus for cleansing.

As I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart.

The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.

The secret of every discord in Christian homes and communities and churches is that we seek our own way and our own glory.

But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that’s the center of it, that is it. It’s almost like there’s something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you’re a songwriter that sings your material.

That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

The only thing God is building in this world is his church.

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.