“It troubles me when I hear people talk about our doctrine and they are referring only to our belief and convictions on the new birth, the revelation of the oneness of God, and our Acts 2:38 experience. They call that our doctrine. Then they call our lifestyle “standards.” I want you to know the doctrine of seperation is not only a doctrine of the church; it is the purpose of the gospel. It is not an additional doctrine to embrance… …but I tell you (Acts 2:38) that’s only the way …

Speak when you are angry and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.

“If we want to know if we are a holy person, here is the true test of holiness: Jesus Christ. How do we measure up to that Holy One? When we are comparing ourselves to Him, there is a hunger to be more and more holy; to be more and more like Him. As we grow closer to Him, we take on His attributes. His holiness, and the world can see Christ through us.”
From the January issue of the Pentecostal Herald

“Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face.  Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.” – R. Kent Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Man, p. 139.

To get the full flavor of an herb, it must be pressed between the fingers, so it is the same with the Scriptures; the more familiar they become, the more they reveal their hidden treasures and yield their indescribable riches.

Vision… it reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Every one who knows what it is to give a lesson or an address occasionaly on Scripture is aware how the verse or paragraph on which he has had to prepare himself to speak stands out in his Bible afterwards from the rest of the text, as if its letters were embossed on the page. Something thus to awaken the mind and concentrate the attention should be devised by every one; because it is not mere reading, but meditation — “meditation all the day,” as the Psalmist says — which …

THE BIBLE contains the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of sinners and the happiness of believers.
Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding, its histories are true, and its decisions are immutable.
Read it to be wise, believe it to be safe and practice it to be holy.
It contains light to direct you, food to support you and comfort to cheer you.
It is the traveler’s map, the pilgrim’s staff, the pilot’s compass, the soldier’s sword and the Christian’s charter.
Here paradise is restored, heaven …

“Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.” The first should not exist in the absence of the second.

Glory be to God that Jesus came from throne to manger, that we might rise from manger to throne, and that all the gates are open and that the door of heaven that once swung this way to let Jesus out, now swings the other way to let us in.
From the book, ‘From Manger To Throne’, copyright 1889 by T. DeWitt Talmage