You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within....

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within....

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may...

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may...

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living...

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living...

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us....

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us....

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic...

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic...

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so...

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so...

In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor...

In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor...

Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'....

Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'....

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then...

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then...

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest...

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest...

When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think...

When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think...

Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first,...

Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first,...

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to...

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to...

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better...

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better...

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the...

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the...