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“Ah! If you have a self-will in your hearts, pray to God to uproot it. Have you self-love? Beseech the Holy Spirit to turn it out; for if you will always will to do as God wills, you must be happy. ...”
“Jesus never expected us simply to turn the other cheek, go the second mile, bless those who persecute us, give unto them that ask, and so forth. These responses, generally and rightly understood to...”
“It is also said that the sheep heed the Shepherd, because they know his voice. Is it true that men recognize Christ's call and respond to it? In one sense it must be, for he has said so; yet much i...”
“I do not know you, my friends, not individually, most of you, but this is the wonderful thing about the work of a preacher, he does not need to know his congregation. Do you know why? Because I kno...”
“You must determine your goal. What matters most? Winning arguments? Or resembling Christ? Even in the heat of an argument we should be asking ourselves if we are acting like Christ.”
“What a person has is of no consequence, whether much or little, when it comes to the deep satisfaction of the soul. Apart from Christ, the rich and beautiful, and the poor and unlovely, will all en...”
“We must be so careful that we do not refuse the cross that the Lord has given us to carry. Let us remember that our present sufferings serve to prepare us for entering into the Kingdom of the Lord ...”
“True joy comes from knowing Christ personally and from depending on His strength rather than your own.”
“The rule for J.O.Y is Jesus, Others and You. You cant have a perfect joy if all you think about is about how to groom your life!”
“Every creature thinks itself best in its own element, that is the place it thrives in, and enjoys its happiness in; now Christ is the element of a Christian.”
“Christ is the Lesson as well as the Teacher.”
“Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.”
“He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.”
“Your prayer life is the foundation of your relationship with Christ.”
“Prayer is simply a constant communion with Christ.”
“Pray without ceasing, say all you can to God and lay all your difficulties before him. Hell take away your tears and make a way where there seems to be none. Wake up and do it!”
“If you think you are unworthy to pray, that thought is not coming from Jesus Christ. More than anything, He wants us to approach Heavenly Father, to have our prayers heard and answered.”
“Hence the aim of meditation, in the context of Christian faith, is not to arrive at an objective and apparently 'scientific' knowledge of God, but to come to know him through the realization that o...”
“There is a 'movement' of meditation, expressing the basic 'paschal' rhythm of the Christian life, the passage from death to life in Christ. Sometimes prayer, meditation and contemplation are 'death...”
“The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.”
