Guidance & Wisdom
To make Cities—that is what we are here for. To make good Cities—that is for the present hour the main work of Christianity. For the City is strategic.
In practising any virtue, it is well to choose that which is most according to our duty, rather than most according to our taste.
To-day is the golden opportunity, to-morrow will be the silver season.
Remember, O soul, it may be now or never with you. Let it be NOW; it would be horrible that it should be never.
A different exercise of devotion is required of each—the noble, the artisan, the servant, the prince, the maiden and the wife; and furthermore such practice must be modified according to the strength, the calling, and the duties of each individual.
Prayer makes the man; prayer makes the preacher; prayer makes the pastor.
The preacher must, by prayer, put God in the sermon. The preacher must, by prayer, move God toward the people before he can move the people to God by his words. The preacher must have had audience and ready access to God before he can have access to the people.
His immediate work was to enlist men in His enterprise, to rally them into a great company or Society for the carrying out of His plans.
The real sermon is made in the closet. The man—God’s man—is made in the closet. His life and his profoundest convictions were born in his secret communion with God.
Winning souls is converting men.
I am a servant of the God of heaven; my business is to persuade sinners to repentance.
Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please GOD, that perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.
If we are going to be successful, we have got to take our stand for God, and let the world and everyone know we are on the Lord’s side.
The glory of God is the very thing for which man was made, and to which all other ends are subordinate.
This unction is the art of preaching. The preacher who never had this unction never had the art of preaching. The preacher who has lost this unction has lost the art of preaching. This unction vitalizes God’s revealed truth, makes it living and life-giving.
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life.
God, whose pleasure brought Man into being, stands away As it were, an handbreath off, to give Room for the newly-made to live. He has made us, but we have to be.
Men are God’s method.
None but praying leaders can have praying followers. Praying apostles will beget praying saints. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews.
Therefore Yahweh says, ‘If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them.’
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
MannaScroll