“The words of the Lord hurt and offend until there is nothing left to hurt or offend. Jesus Christ has no tenderness whatever toward anything that is ultimately going to ruin a man in the service of God.”
“Master and Lord have little place in our vocabulary, we prefer the words Saviour, Sanctifier, Healer.”
“Our Lord never enforces obedience; He does not take means to make me do what He wants.”
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it serenely with too high a spirit to be encumbered by your old nonsense.”
“The whole human race was created to glorify God and enjoy Him for ever.”
“The honor of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life.”
“Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.”
“Surrender is not the surrender of the external life, but of the will; when that is done, all is done.”
“A river touches places of which its source knows nothing, and Jesus says if we have received of His fullness, however small the visible measure of our lives, out of us will flow the rivers that will bless to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
“Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.”
“Let me say I believe God will supply all my need, and then let me run dry, with no outlook, and see whether I will go through the trial of faith, or whether I will sink back to something lower.”
“Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.”
