Guidance & Wisdom
We are not preaching a state, but a walk. The highway of holiness is not a place, but a way.
As the will is the governing power in the man’s nature, if the will is set straight, all the rest of the nature must come into harmony.
The greatest burden we have to carry in life is self. The most difficult thing we have to manage is self.
It is the man that makes the action, not the action the man.
If our religion is really our life, and not merely something extraneous tacked on to our life, it must necessarily go into everything in which we live.
Christians are God’s witnesses necessarily, because the world will not read the Bible, but they will read our lives.
Service becomes perfect freedom, until the Christian is forced to exclaim, ‘This happy service! Who could dream earth had such liberty?’
The will is like a wise mother in a nursery; the feelings are like a set of clamoring, crying children.
Do not let there be a day nor an hour in which you are not intelligently doing His will, and following Him wholly. And this personal service to Him will give a halo to your life, and gild the most monotonous existence with a heavenly glow.
The voices may be many, the message can be but one.
Give yourself to the Lord definitely and fully, according to your present light, asking the Holy Spirit to show you all that is contrary to God.
There may be something very deceptive in our sufferings over our failures. We may seem to ourselves to be wholly occupied with the glory of God, and yet in our inmost souls it may be self alone that occasions all our trouble.
It is not what we feel, but what we are that settles the question.
To grow in grace is opposed to all self-dependence, to all self-effort, to all legality of every kind.
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