Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.

One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there's always so much more to know, so much more to discover. Just when we least expect it, He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions about who He is and how He works.

Depend on it, God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies.

Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the Book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years. (Tauler)

When you come to the end of all the light you know,and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly. (Edward Teller)

Worship lifts us up to see the problems and troubles we face from God's perspective instead of being trapped in an earthly, time-bound viewpoint. The higher we go, the smaller our problems seem. (Tenny)

Knowledge of God can be fully given to man only in a Person, never in a doctrine. Faith is not the holding of correct doctrine, but personal fellowship with the living God.

I can contribute nothing to my own salvation, except the sin from which I need to be redeemed.

We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped. (Tertullian)

I will not work my soul to save, For that my Lord alone has done; But I will work like any slave; Because I'm loved by God's dear Son! (William Henry Griffith Thomas)

Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing' than as it is an opportunity put into our hands, by the providence of God, of doing more good.

He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever.

Love is an action, not a feeling. Love is a choice. In fact, love is a commandment. (Mack Timberlake)

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. (Leo Tolstoy)

The really important thing in life is not the avoidance of mistakes, but the obedience of faith. By obedience, the man is led step by step to correct his errors, whereas nothing will ever happen to him if he doesn't get going. (Paul Tournier)

God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible -- what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him.

God desires and is pleased to communicate with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the souls of the redeemed men and women is the throbbing heart of the New Testament.

If faith is the gaze of the heart at God, and if this gaze is but the raising of the inward eyes to meet the all-seeing eyes of God, then it follows that it is one of the easiest things possible to do.

God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.

The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but a pure heart and a single mind. He asks no rich paneling, no rugs from the Orient, no art treasures from afar. He desires but sincerity, transparency, humility, and love. He will see to the rest.

I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire.

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.

There can be no doubt that possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the Christian life. Because it is so natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic.

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.

The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men.

God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen. For the great unseen Reality is God.

Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you can never enjoy the world. (Thomas Traherne)

The devil loves to fish in troubled waters. (John Trapp)

The greatest battles are fought in the mind. (Casey Treat)

No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality. (Elton Trueblood in "While It Is Day")

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshiped. (Evelyn Underhill)

Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love-- time is eternity. (Henry van Dyke)

Let's not drag God's standard of truth down to our level of performance. (Vendon)

He who waits on God never waits too long. (Chuck Wagner)

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. (William H. Walton)

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?' (William A. Ward)

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles. (B.B.Warfield)

God meets me everywhere, or I never meet Him. If I think I meet Him only in Bible and Sacrament, and in the Christian fellowship, then I do not know who it is I meet. (M. A. C. Warren)

You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you! ("The Purpose Driven Life")

The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, peace of mind, or even your happiness. It's far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born BY his purpose and FOR his purpose. ("The Purpose Driven Life")

Many people spend their lives trying to create a lasting legacy on earth. They want to be remembered when they're gone. Yet, what ultimately matters most will not be what others say about your life but what GOD says. What people fail to realize is that all achievements are eventually surpassed, records are broken, reputations fade, and tributes are forgotten. ("The Purpose Driven Life")

Every time you trust God's wisdom and do whatever he says, even when you don't understand it, you deepen your friendship with God. ("The Purpose Driven Life" )

If God be our God, He will give us peace in trouble. When there is a storm without, He will make peace within. The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble. (Thomas Watson)

God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to teach us to be wary that we offend not with our tongue. (Thomas Watson)

When I survey the wondrous cross, On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride. (Isaac Watts)

Be still, and in the quiet moments, listen to the voice of your heavenly Father. His words can renew your spirit. No one knows you and your needs like He does. ( Janet L. Weaver)

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. (Simone Weil)

Truth is not a virtue unless it is given with love! (Pete Welsh)

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Best of all is, God is with us.

Faith, mighty faith the promise sees And rests on that alone: Laughs at impossibilities, And says it shall be done. (Charles Wesley)

Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in They Presence. ( Susanna Wesley)

Our faith should be our steering wheel, not our spare tire. (C. L. Wheeler)

All we want in Christ, we shall find in Christ. If we want little, we shall find little. If we want much, we shall find much; but if, in utter helplessness, we cast our all on Christ, He will be to us the whole treasury of God. (Henry Benjamin Whipple)

A good witness isn't like a salesman, emphasis is on a person rather than a product. A good witness is like a signpost. It doesn't matter whether it is old, young, pretty, ugly; it has to point the right direction and be able to be understood. We are witnesses to Christ, we point to him. (John White)

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. (Alfred North Whitehead)

The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down. (George Whitefield)

Many times disillusionment comes simply because our circumstances don't fit our concept of who God is and how He works. (Mark Wiley)

We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity. (Roger Williams)

God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness. (Bruce Wilkinson)

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. (Jackie Windspear)

The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.