“A glass is only full when it overflows. Fullness can only be measured by overflow.” Bill Johnson

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever.

“The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him and of her.”

A. W. Tozer The Knowledge of the Holy

“For of all things the beholding and the loving of the Maker maketh the soul to seem less in his own sight, and most filleth him with reverent dread and true meekness; and plenty of charity for his fellow Christians. “

Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love

Psalm 89:6

For who in the heavens can be compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?

“But who shall know Thee, O! my God? He who shall seek with his whole heart to know Thee, who shall know himself with approbation no longer, and to whom all that is not Thou shall be as though it were not! The world cannot receive this saying because it is full of self, and vanity, and lies, and is empty of God; but I trust that there will always be souls hungering for God, who will relish the truth which I am about to set forth.”

Fenelon Christian Counsel

“It is because God is not known; if He were know, He would be loved. God is love, says the apostle John (1 John 4:8, 16); he who loves Him not, does not know Him, for how could we know love without loving it? “

Fenelon Christian Counsel on Divers Matters Pertaining to the Inner Life

1 John 4:8, 16

   ⁸He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

   ¹⁶And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

18May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Psalm 45:7

Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Psalm 97:10

Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

“We cannot love purity without hating impurity. We cannot love truth without hating lying and deceitfulness.”

-A. W. Tozer Jesus, Our Man In Glory

“When the Church inhales the Holy Spirit she must exhale everything that is contrary to Him.

I don’t think [one] can love righteousness unless he hates sin; for the Scripture leaves up with the belief that in order to accept there are some things you must reject. In order to affirm, there are things you have to deny; in order to say yes you have to be able to say no.”

-A. W. Tozer, Total Commitment to Christ

Wow. Do I exhale everything that’s contrary to the Holy Spirit or do I just try not to breath in His face?

Lord, show me the areas in my life where I allow sin to reside. The areas where I don’t view the sin around me as sin as a result of the hardening of my heart to Your words of truth. Show me sin as you see it, Father. Amen.

-A.B. Simpson When the Comforter Came