If Thou Wilt Be Perfect

Top Highlights

“We are to be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect, not by struggle and effort, but by the impartation of that which is Perfect.” (source)

“The will of God is the gladdest, brightest, most bountiful thing possible to conceive, and yet some of us talk of the will of God with a terrific sigh—‘Oh well, I suppose it is the will of God,’ as if His will were the most calamitous thing that could befall us.” (source)

“If we seek the baptism of the Holy Ghost in order that God may make us great servants of His, we shall never receive anything. God baptises us with the Holy Ghost that He may be All in all.” (source)

“The only soul Satan cannot touch is the soul whose spiritual life and rational life and physical life is hid with Christ in God; that soul is absolutely secure.” (source)

“Lust and covetousness are summed up in the phrase, ‘I must have it at once and for myself.’ It is an absolute flood in the nature of man, it overtakes his spirit, it overtakes his soul and body.” (source)