There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.
The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.
When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.
You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.
If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.
To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.
Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.
It's language as a kind of structural system. A diagram of a sentence, now that seems like a kind of architectural model. I don't know how to explain it, but it would be nice to try. Why, why this fascination?
The Holy Ghost converts [us] from carnality to spirituality. It cleanses, heals, and purifies the soul. . . . . Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, repentance, and water baptism are all preliminary and prerequisite to it, but [the baptism of fire] is the consummation. To receive [this baptism of fire] is to have one's garments washed in the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
Most men, however brave, have some anxiety or fear in them.
If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.