The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

Whoever defends himself will have himself for defense, and he will have no other. But let him come defenseless before the Lord and he will have for his defender no less than God Himself.

The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the poor in spirit.

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

He is ETERNAL, which means that He antedates time and is wholly independent of it. Time began in Him and will end in Him. To it He pays no tribute and from it He suffers no change. He is IMMUTABLE, which means that He ha…

Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experience? Of course the will o…

Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very l…

To be specific, the self-sins are these: self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love and a host of others like them

Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds ove…

Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

Every man must choose his world.

If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.

God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.

The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is wh…

The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.

Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth.

He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.

The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, God. The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.

We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals... The tragic res…

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets things'with a deep and fierce passion. The pronouns my'and `mine'look innocent enough in prin…

Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.

Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one

Millions call themselves by His name, it is true, and pay some token homage to Him, but a simple test will show how little He is really honored among them. Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who o…

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love.

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts

Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one mu…