Here are some gleanings by a brother over the past fifty years of his life.
“An assembly gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ has His presence for competency and the Spirit’s presence for power.”
“Faith looks like pride to those who don’t have it.”
“He is above for me. Am I down here for Him?”
“We are not to rejoice so much in the deliverances when they come as with the One who delivers us.”
“The poor thief bore the fruit of his sins from man, but the Lord of glory at his side was bearing the fruit of them from God.”
“To attempt to use the Word of God without the teaching of the Spirit brings me into rationalism. To presume to have the Spirit of God without the Word leads me into fanaticism.”
“If it is a question of weakness or infirmity, Jesus comforts us. But never does He pity the flesh.”
“Holiness without love produces harshness. Love without holiness produces compromise.”
“The higher the privilege, the fiercer the conflict.”