Quotes about Totality

I believe we should pray that God will take possession of our lives totally and completely. We should pray that we will be emptied of self— self-love, self-will, self-ambition—and be placed completely at His disposal.

Our response to Jesus Christ will be total the day we experience how total is his love for us. Instead of our self-conscious efforts to be good, we should allow ourselves the luxury of letting ourselves be loved by God. And much of his love for us will be expressed through the medium of our friends' love for us. How else could he reveal it in a way that is tangible? "You are my friends if you do what I command. . . . This is my command: Love each other" (John 15:14, 17).

in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing. In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. As a general rule, he can't amount to much in his totality.

Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.

The whole is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the totality is something besides the parts.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.

He wrote: A religion to be true must include everything from the amoeba to the milky way. Nothing must be excluded from our view and purview for any faith to be true.

If we desire to experience the totality of fellowship with Christ, we must expect to experience the fellowship of His sufferings.

God wants your life. Not one hour a week, not 10% of your income, He wants you.

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

Whoever wishes to have the half of Christ, loses   the whole.