V. Raymond Edman > Quotes

“Never doubt in the DARK what God told you in the LIGHT.”
― V. Raymond Edman

“Many a soul will turn back to accustomed marshlands of defeat rather than brave the fogs of frustration; but the mountain peaks rise high above the rain and gloom.”
― V. Raymond Edman, They Found the Secret

“The pattern [of the crisis of the deeper life] seems to be self-centeredness, self-effort, increasing inner dissatisfaction and outer discouragement, a temptation to give it all up because there is no better way, and then finding the Spirit of God to be their strength, their guide, their confidence and companion--in a word, their life.”
― V. Raymond Edman

“Climbing in the Spirit is accompanied by kneeling, and not by running; by surrender, and not by determination. Despair of self leads to utter desperation; but beyond these mists lies the sunshine of God's presence.”
― V. Raymond Edman, They Found the Secret

“But I could now see and understand what was meant by the passage, ‘Being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.’ I could see that the moment I believed, while up in the woods, all sense of condemnation had entirely dropped out of my mind; and that from that moment I could not feel a sense of guilt or condemnation by any effort that I could make. My sense of guilt was gone; my sins were gone; and I do not think I felt any more sense of guilt than if I never had sinned.”
― V. Raymond Edman, They Found the Secret: Twenty Lives That Reveal a Touch of Eternity

“When you know what God has done for you, the power and the tyranny of sin is gone and the radiant, unspeakable emancipation of the indwelling Christ has come, and when you see men and women who should be princes and princesses with God bound up by the show of things - oh, you begin to understand what the Apostle meant when he said he wished himself accursed from Christ that men might be saved!”
― V. Raymond Edman, They Found the Secret

“The human heart has no desires that God cannot satisfy.”
― V. Raymond Edman, They Found the Secret: Twenty Transformed Lives That Reveal a Touch of Eternity