Anything less than perfect dependence upon God is a denial of Him.
Life has a language. To live holy is to have all our words and deeds to say, “Hallowed be thy name.”* (Matthew 6:9; Luke 11:2)
The rays of light that proceed from the sun are as pure as the sun. The life that flows from God must be as free from imperfections as He.
If the human soul would grow in moral stature and moral beauty and fruitfulness, it must keep open to the light of God and absorb that light as it falls upon it.
If you are not showing to the world around you that there is something better than wealth, honor, position, earthly pleasure, and the good opinions and praise of men, you are not showing forth the life of Christ.
He does not love us truly who does not love us well enough to tell us our faults. To love one another is to have an intense desire to see one another free from faults.
The man who fails to give us reproof when needed, but gives us approval instead, or holds back deserving rebuke for fear of offending, is more cruel than he who withholds bread from us when we are hungry.
He who will listen to any words of levity, jesting, foolishness, tale-bearing, tattling, and show no disapproval makes himself a partaker of the sin.
It has been arranged in the plan of redemption that God and man can be so absorbed each in the other that they would think alike, will alike, feel and love and work together. This is man at his real self.
Man is to be loved because of what he is worth to God. We get some estimate of man’s worth to Christ by the terrible woe He pronounces upon those who would injure one of those who believe in Him.
The nearer you live like Christ the nearer you live like you ought to live. The more you love Him, and love with Him, and love all things for Him, the more you will be like Him.
The trouble is not that you do not know what is right; the trouble is that you do not lay hold upon God to help you to live like you know you should.