Quotes About Reflection

Never let your common sense become so prominent and forceful that it pushes the Son of God to one side.

We have not dwelt enough on the tragedy of Calvary or on the meaning of redemption.

huffed. I get huffed because I have a peculiar person to live with. Just think how disagreeable I have been to God!

The reason for prayer is intimacy of relation with our Father.

Our insistence in proving that we are right is nearly always an indication that there has been some point of disobedience.

Never live on your memories of past experiences, but let the Word of God always be living and active in you.

Staleness is an indication that something in out lives is out of step with God.

Receiving Yourself in the Fires of Sorrow

One of the reasons of stultification in prayer is that there is no imagination, no power of putting ourselves deliberately before God.

Sorrow removes a great deal of a person's shallowness, but it does not always make that person better. Suffering either gives me to myself or it destroys me. You cannot find or receive yourself through success, because you lose your head over pride. And you cannot receive yourself through the monotony of your daily life, because you give in to complaining. The only way to find yourself is in the fires of sorrow.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

When we discern that other people are not growing spiritually and allow that discernment to turn to criticism, we block our fellowship with God. God never gives us discernment so that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticise, but that we may intercede.

The mountaintop is not meant to teach us anything, it is meant to make us something. There is a terrible trap in always asking, "What's the use of this experience?" We can never measure spiritual matters in that way. The moments on the mountaintop are rare moments, and they are meant for something in God's purpose.

Jesus' instructions with regard to judging others is very simply put; He says, "Don't." The average Christian is the most piercingly critical individual known. Criticism is one of the ordinary activities of people, but in the spiritual realm nothing is accomplished by it. The effect of criticism is the dividing up of the strengths of the one being criticized.

You must constantly beware of anything that causes you to think of yourself as a superior person.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

Beware of not acting upon what you see in your moments on the mountaintop with God.

My vision of God is dependent upon the condition of my character.

Have we ever let God tell us any of His joys? Or are we continually telling God our secrets, leaving Him no time to talk to us? At the beginning of our Christian life we are full of requests to God. But then we find that God wants to get us into an intimate relationship with Himself—to get us in touch with His purposes.

When we pray, asking God to sanctify us, are we prepared to measure up to what that really means?

If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?

Have you ever heard the Master say something very difficult to you? If you haven't, I question whether you have ever heard Him say anything at all. Jesus says a tremendous amount to us that we listen to, but do not actually hear.