Confidence that one’s impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.
Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God’s sovereignty.
Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.
The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.
Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.
He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.
What we often feel in ecstatic moments in this world – ‘I don’t ever want this to stop’ – will be the constant thought of our hearts in that world. We shall think it, knowing that in fact it never WILL stop.
Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.
Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.
Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.
Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life’s problems fall into place of their own accord.