You have taken a long step toward holy living when you have learned to do much and say little. Holiness is seen in what you do and not in what you say.
Many seek God and find Him not because they seek Him for what He has to give, rather than for what He is Himself. There are those who would like very much to live like God, but are not willing to pay the price to become like God.
A man may discourse very beautifully about God, and pray in public with great fervor and enthusiasm, but if he is negligent of secret prayer, his religion is toward men and not toward God.
We have obtained the true riches only when we have obtained true poverty. We have obtained true honor only when we have come to be despised. We rise to a great height only by being beaten down. We find true comfort in affliction. When you are called a fool for Christ’s sake then you have found the true knowledge. You have found true joy and happiness only when you are crucified with Christ.
If you want that peace which comes from God, if you want that fullness of joy that Christ gives, see that that seven-headed monster of self-love has every head beheaded.
If thou wouldst have thy soul to be the temple of God, see that it is kept clean of all evil, quiet from all fears, void of all earthly affection, and peaceful amid temptation.
A devoted man is one who lives solely to the will of God, who serves God in every thing, who sees God in everything, who does all in the name of Jesus, and eats and drinks and does all things to God’s glory.
If a man buys and sells with the sole thought of getting gain and bettering himself in things of this world, without any regard for the one from whom he buys or sells, he has a vain religion.
The Christian takes interest only in those things outside of Christ which he can use for Christ. If a man engages in any business he can not serve Christ in or can not use to Christ’s glory, he lives outside of Christ.
You are winging your flight over the narrow stream of time. Know you not that in your flight God holds your hand; then why do you get so restless and flutter so? Why do such little things trouble you?