Thomas Guthrie Quotes

God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even know it is happening.

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

Even though I be bound in the Name, I have not yet become perfected in Jesus Christ.

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.

We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?

The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow.

Good means ultimately he's producing character in me to conform me into the image of Christ.

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good, oh, 200 times, I doubt very much that it's true.

In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

God uses change to change us. He doesn’t use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

Our loving Heavenly Father wants us to become more like him. God understands that we get there not in an instant, but by taking one step at a time.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.

Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker.

Emotions are messengers that carry information. Spiritual growth depends upon receiving that information & using it.

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

A disciple is one who thinks, feels and acts like Jesus Christ. It is being conformed to the image of Christ as Romans 8:28-29 states-that God's No.1 purpose in our lives is to make us like Jesus.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

I am a nice young girl here to pick up your granddaughter for the weekend... We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her. - Bones to Cat's grandparents