 Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character. |
| Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. |
| Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. |
| Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. |
| Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ. |
| At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption. |
| To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe. |
| The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions. |
| If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be. |
| Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. |
| Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you. |
| Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. |
| Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. |
| In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are. |
| Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian. |
| When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian. |
| You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love. |
| Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this. |
| When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character. |
| The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes. |
