The law of all laws, the necessity of nature, is that God and man are one. Until they begin to be one in the reality as in the divine idea, in the flower as in the root, in the finishing as in the issuing creation, nothing can go right with the man, and God can have no rest from his labor in him...

Only when a man begins to do the thing he knows, does he begin to be able to think aright; then God comes to him in a new and higher way...

This is and has been the Father’s work from the beginning—to bring us into the home of his heart, where he shares the glories of life with the Living One. 

For him who does not see that Christ must be obeyed, he must be left to the teaching of the Father, who brings all that hear and learn of him to Christ; He will leave no man to his own way, however much the man may prefer it.

Do not deter men with worthless explanations of Christianity, but attract them by your behavior, your doing of the Lord’s will, and they will draw nigh to behold how Christians love one another... 

To let their light shine, not to force on them their interpretations of God’s designs, is the duty of Christians towards their fellows. If those who set themselves to explain their theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different would now be the condition of that portion of the world with which they came into contact! In how many a heart would the name of the Lord be loved where now it remains unknown! 

We may be sure of this, that no man will be condemned for any sin that is past; that, if he be condemned, it will be because he would not come to the light when the light came to him; because he would not cease to do evil and learn to do well; because he hid his unbelief in the garment of a false faith, and would not obey;.... 

A faith, for instance, that God does not forgive me because he loves me, but because he loves Jesus Christ, cannot save me, because it is a falsehood against God: such a gospel would be the preaching of a God that was not love, therefore in whom was no salvation.

No man can do yet what he tells him—but are you trying? Obedience is not perfection, but trying. Do you suppose he ever gave a commandment knowing it was of no use for it could not be done? 

If you do nothing that he says, it is no wonder that you cannot trust in him, and are therefore driven to seek refuge in the atonement, as if something he had done, and not he himself in his doing were the atonement...

To do his words is to enter into vital relation with him, to obey him is the only way to be one with him. There can be no truth, no reality, in any initiation of at-one-ment with him, that is not obedience...

It is the one terrible heresy of the church, that it has always been presenting something other than obedience as faith in Christ. 

Some Christians, instead of so knowing Christ that they have him in them saving them, lie wasting themselves in self-examination as to whether they are believers, whether they are really trusting in the atonement, whether they are truly sorry for their sins...

While the mind is occupied in enquiring, “Do I believe or feel this thing right?” the true question is forgotten: “Have I left all to follow him?” To the man who gives himself to the living Lord, every belief will necessarily come right; the Lord himself will see that his disciple believe aright concerning him.

For to hold a thing with the intellect is not to believe it. A man’s real belief is that which he lives by; and that which the man I mean lives by, is the love of God, and obedience to his law, so far as he has recognized it. 

And if had I to do with the writer, I would ask: if he will allow that there was a man named Jesus, who died of the truth he taught, can he believe he died for such alleged truth as these abominable dogmas? But it is to those who call themselves Christians that I would speak...

How have we learned Christ? It ought to be a startling thought, that we may have learned him wrong. That must be far worse than not to have learned him at all:...