New Thread, share your favorite quotes, long, short, one's that don't fit in other categories. Also for reference is the locked topic of the first Great Quotes thread here:
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"A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God"
-Paul Washer
"WE have seen that men must be worse than insane (whatever they say) if they do not come to the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation."
-John Calvin
“We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.”
-John Calvin
I tried to pray, and you know brothers and sisters, I was in this thing for 30 years and you never get to the place where you know how to pray, it tears you apart every day!
-Gerhard Du Toit
The average Christian is so cold and contented with his wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
-A.W. Tozer
"No man is ever fully accepted until he has, first of all, been utterly rejected."
-Author unknown
The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.
-A.W.Tozer
“Preach the word purely and fully; mix nothing with it that does not belong to it, or may not evidently be inferred from its language. State every doctrine and opinion as near to the mind of the Spirit as you can ascertain. The doctrines of the word you will bring forth in their full import, without concealing them, or endeavouring to melt them down and mould them so as to suit the prejudiced and indolent depravity of the human heart. The gospel is not suited, and cannot be made to suit, the corrupt dispositions and inclinations of the carnal mind; but the faithful preaching of it is calculated to oppose and to overcome those evil prejudices so far as to excite men to attend to the doctrines it contains and the blessings it proposes. It is your duty, not to bring down the gospel into a conformity with them, but to change them into a conformity with the gospel.”
-Taken from The Works of Robert Hall, “The Substance of a Charge, Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. J. K. Hall, at Kettering,
"Oh the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him!!!"
-Duncan Campbell
"We stink more of the world than we stink of of sack cloth and ashes. Alot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on!"
-N. Cruz
"Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results."
-E.M. Bounds
"Despite the atrociousness of it, Satan really does have "little cause to fear most preaching." Most preaching in the modern church is completely devoid of unction. Pastors are too busy playing golf or racquetball to bother spending time on their knees. No wonder some pastors I've heard can more readily quote Dr. Laura then bible passages pertaining to prayer. It's disastrous. Satan need not fear under those conditions."
-A. Reavis
" Worship is the key to unshackling the future...(it).... is basic to the most rapid advancement of the the Kingdom of God."
Jack Hayford
"After all our hopes and dreams have come and gone, and children sift through all we've left behind;
May the clues that they discover, become the light that leads them to the road we each must find."
Sung by Steve Green " Find US Faithful"
" The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing." "So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!"
The Normal Christian Life
Watchman Nee
How do we worship our God Wholeheartedly? To answer the question we must respond to the command...
"If you love me, you will obey what I command." John 14:15
True Love is complete obedience ... half obedience is no obedience. If you love Jesus, you will obey what He commands. This is true love and true worship
Unknown
" Jesus defeated satan in Gethsemane and on the cross, not by directly confronting the devil, but by fulfilling the dstiny to which He has been called. The greatest battle that was ever won was accomplished by the apparent death of the victor, without ever a word of rebuke to His aversary!"
Francis Frangipane
The Spirit clothed himself,
He makes the record say,
With Gideon, so he became
As nothing in the fray,
But just a suit of working clothes
The Spirit wore that day
unknown author
How To Please God
How do you please God?
In many ways, of course. But what is the one way--a very basic way-- without which nothing else suffices?
What does it take to please you? What do you require, without which nothing else would satisfy you?
Is it not to be trusted?
What would you trade for the trust of your family, friends, peers, associates? If they wouldn't believe you--what else could they give you that would compensate?
Mistrust is alienation.
It is impossible to relate with those who will not believe you. To have your word doubted is humiliating. To have your promises refected is intolerable. Life without the trust of others would be unbearable.
What greater sin can we commit than to disbelieve God?
God deserves--and desires--our trust, our belief, our faith.
There is nothing we can do to please God if we deny Him our confidence and trust. Belief is the only possible foundation for a significant relationship with Him.
Some of us don't believe in Thee at all.
Others of us say we do, but we live as though we don't.
Some of us are too busy to give Thee much thought, except when we get into trouble; then we use Thee as a fire escape or life preserver, and forget Thee as soon as we're safe.
Some of us are secretly angry with Thee. Frankly, we feel we have been treated unjustly and we blame Thee.
Some of us see so much tragedy, so much injustice, so much pain in the world, that we cannot understand how a God of love could allow it.
Despite the fact that the Bible is filled with assurance of They unconditional love, concern and compassion, and Thou has promised never to leave us or forsake us, we choose not to believe Thee.
Forgive us, Lord. Help us to understand, to trust, to love and adore Thee.
In the name of Jesus, whose love for Thee and for us never fails. Amen.
(in the Senate, June 23, 1982)
"Make sure you are praising God on the right side of the sea." - A former pastor
Speaking of the Israelites at the Red Sea
"I believed also that nobody is more a Christian. I had read in the Bible that there will be in the last time the great apostasy, that people will leave the faith and I believed that I lived now this time. But I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again, just as Mary Magdalene sat at the tomb of Jesus and wept until Jesus showed Himself. Then when I came out of prison I saw Christianity is not dead. The number of practicing Christians in Rumania according to the figures given by the Communists themselves in 20 years of Communist dictatorship has grown 300 percent."
'Senator Dodd:...That scar on your right breast, do you remember how that was inflicted?
Reverend Wurmbrand: Yes; by knife.
Senator Dodd: By knife?
Reverend Wurmbrand: By knife. I have been in Oslo. I went to a hospital. There were several physicians. I can give their names. I spoke with them about religion. In the beginning they said, "We are atheists," and then they saw my body and I asked them what treatment do I need. They said: "About treatment, do not ask us. Ask only the one in whom we don't believe, but who has kept you alive, because according to our medical books, you are dead. A man who has what you have, with four vertebras broken, cannot live. According to our medical books, you are dead. If you are alive, then the one in whom we don't believe has kept you alive."'
"There is nothing little in God."
-C.H. Spurgeon
"I love to live on the brink of eternity."
-David Brainerd
"Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world."
-David Brainerd
"It's about loving God, not leaving a legacy."
-Author Unknown (wisdom to ministers)
"If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all."
-Ravenhill
"Altar calls are a modern convenience to get results when the Holy Ghost has not honored the truth."
-Ravenhill
"Let me never become a slave to crowds."
A.W. Tozer
"Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven?"
-Thomas Watson
For unless your hearts are free from worldly hopes and worldly fears, you never will speak boldly, as you ought to speak. The good old Puritans, I believe, never preached better than when in danger of being taken to prison as soon as they had finished their sermon. And however the church may be at peace now, yet I am persuaded, unless you go forth with the same temper, you will never preach with the same demonstration of the Spirit and of power. Study, therefore, my brethren,–I beseech you by the mercies of God in Christ Jesus,–study your hearts as well as books; ask yourselves again and again whether you would preach for Christ, if you were sure to lay down your lives for so doing?
[i]-Taken from Whitefieldiana No. 1, The Christian Treasury, 1868
"The true character of the loveliness that tells for God is always unconscious."
-taken from [i]The Ministry Of The Unnoticed
"The Moravians recognized themselves in debt to the world as the trustees of the gospel. They were taught to embrace a lifestyle of self-denial, sacrifice and prompt obedience. They followed the call of the Lamb to go anywhere and with an emphasis upon the worst and hardest places as having the first claim. No soldiers of the cross have ever been bolder as pioneers, more patient or persistent in difficulties, more heroic in suffering, or more entirely devoted to Christ and the souls of men than the Moravian Brother-hood."
-David Smithers
[b][i]I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior!-
"A man may have the soundest doctrines in his head—yet his life be worldly, inconsistent, and ungodly."
-Philpot
"Several years ago...An Uncle of mine, who was very sound, slipped in some good books into a suitcase one day...and I remember coming across a book by Ernie Reisinger called "Today's Evangelism" and I began to read it... I got half way through that book and this is no exaggeration... and I'm not speaking evangelistically... This is true. I fell out of that chair with such the fear of God upon my life, and I pressed my face into those old boards of that room in the city of Lima (third floor of an old building we were using for a church)... I pressed my face as far into those boards as they could get in fear as I could get... and cried out to God, "God, If you promise not to kill me for the way I've preached your gospel, I promise from here on out I'll never preach it that way again."
-Paul Washer (quoted from "I am under obligation")
"what will it cost me for God to break my heart?" - "it will cost you apsolutely evertyhing"
-Gerhard DuToit
Passing along the road the other day, we thought we had found a very beautiful knife. On picking it up we found it to be only a handle without a blade. So do we hear very beautiful sermons—well written and well read—but they are without a blade. They cut out no cancers of sin and carve out no models of piety. Sermons must have blades!
–Anonymous
I'm afraid from the presence of God. You know, we do little things, we criticize, we gossip and stuff.
I was memorizing the first twelve chapters of Acts few years ago, and I phoned my wife five o clock one morning, I was speaking at a bible institute, she thought that there was something wrong, and she said: "What's going on? " I said: "My darling I'm memorizing Acts Chapter 5, Ananias and Sapphira" and she said: "What about that", I said: "Yes, they kept back part of the price, and you remember what happened. God struck them and they were dead." She said: "What do you think" and I said: "Jannes(?) if we were living in Acts chapter 5 today, there will be very few christians who will be alive" I'm afraid of the presence of God.
-Gerhard DuToit
"Whoever loves earth above Heaven, and fleshly prosperity more than God, is a wicked, unconverted man!"
-Richard Baxter
from A Call To The Unconverted
"Mortification of the flesh is the true place of power in the Spirit."
-W. Kelly
“It is not hasty reading, but seriously meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that makes them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flowers that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon them and drawing out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest, and strongest Christian.” -Anonymous
'If an archangel from heaven were to come, and were to start giving me, telling me, teaching me, and giving me instruction, I'd ask him for the text. I'd say, "Where's it say that in the Bible? I want to know." And I would insist that it was according to the scriptures, because I do not believe in any extra-scriptural teachings, nor any anti-scriptural teachings, or any sub-scriptural teachings. I think we ought to put the emphasis where God puts it, and continue to put it there, and to expound the scriptures, and stay by the scriptures. I wouldn't - no matter if I saw a light above the light of the sun, I'd keep my mouth shut about it 'til I'd checked in Daniel and Revelation and the rest of the scriptures to see if it had any basis in truth. And if it didn't, I'd think I'd just eaten something I shouldn't, and I wouldn't say anything about it. Because I don't believe in anything that is unscriptural or that is anti-scriptural.' A.W Tozer
"The day that you decide to fast is the day that you’ve decided to quit hiding from whatever it is that is in you that just don’t care. That you don’t care about the naked, you don’t care about the captive, the poor, whether anyone is getting saved, whether anyone is getting healed. To even get a shred of burnt out conscience we have to show you movies of starving kids. What kind of walk is that?"
-Dave Roberson - The Basic of Fasting – Don’t Hide From Your Flesh
(Speaking on the impossibility of earning/maintaining God's favor/salvation)
"If I thought that you had to earn the favor of God, then the moment you got born again I’d just kill you."
-Andrew Wommack “Is Jesus Enough?” (War is Over Series)
"Many people in the world have not rejected Christ. They have rejected the Christ they’ve seen, projected by Christendom."
"A lot of things that are being spoken of today as the ministry of the Holy Spirit, it’s just emotional exuberance. Because people don’t know what is soul and what is spirit….Young people are so often taken up with that exuberance and say, ‘Oh, this is Holy Spirit.’ It’s not, if it were Holy Spirit it would bring holiness. “
“I’m not against noise, it’s a matter of your temperament….if your trinity is Father, Son and Noisy Spirit, mine is not….if you’re filled with the Holy Spirit, you have holiness.”
-Zac Poonen “A Renewed Soul” (Sanctification Series)
Quotations from Thomas Brooks
Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.
The lives of ministers oftentimes convince more strongly than their words; their tongues may persuade, but their lives command.
Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1.35].
Suffering times are sealing times. The primitive Christians found them so, and the suffering saints in Mary's days found them so. When the furnace is seven times hotter than ordinary, the Spirit of the Lord comes and seals up a man's pardon in his bosom, his peace with God, and his title to heaven. Blessed Bradford looked upon his sufferings as an evidence to him that he was on the right way to heaven.
It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.
God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6].
Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.
An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.
Repentance is a grace, and must have its daily operation, as well as other graces. A true penitent must go on from faith to faith, from strength to strength; he must never stand still or turn back. True repentance is a continued spring, where the waters of godly sorrow are always flowing. 'My sin is ever before me'.
It was a choice saying of Augustine, 'Every saint is God's temple, and he who carries his temple about him, may go to prayer when he pleaseth'.
Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father.
You had better be a poor man and a rich Christian, than a rich man and a poor Christian. You had better do anything, bear anything, and be anything rather than be a dwarf in grace.
Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.
A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.
'My sin is ever before me' [Psalm 51.3]. A humble soul sees that he can stay no more from sin, than the heart can from panting, and the pulse from beating. He sees his heart and life to be fuller of sin, than the firmament is of stars; and this keeps him low. He sees that sin is so bred in the bone, that till his bones, as Joseph's, be carried out of the Egypt of this world, it will not out. Though sin and grace were never born together, and though they shall not die together, yet while the believer lives, these two must live together; and this keeps him humble.
The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.
The best and sweetest flowers of Paradise God gives to his people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven, a key to let us in to Paradise.
"If you will here stop and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but because you never thoroughly intended it."
-William Law
"It is not under names, creeds, or professions that men shall be saved at the last day; those alone who were holy, who were here conformed to the image of Christ, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Those who expect it in any other way, or on any other account, will be sadly deceived."
-Adam Clarke
Are You a Worshipper? Really?
Conversation.... God: "Would you say that a person who watches 20 minutes of television a week worships the TV?"
Us: "Probably not."
Father: "Then why would you say that someone who worships ME 20 minutes a week is a worshipper of God?"
"Would that God would make hell so read to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there."
-J. Hudson Taylor
Greg,
seeing your last quote from Hudson Taylor reminded me of another one by him that has really blessed and challenged me as I have been seeking God for something more in the christian life.
"It may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our own feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success."
J. Hudson Taylor
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?-- Corrie Ten Boom
"We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so."
-J.C. Ryle
“More than 2 billion people who do not know Jesus head toward hell to perish for eternity, while the church laughs its way to hysteria, claiming this is the sign of the last days’ outpouring of the Holy Spirit…My brothers and sisters this is not Christianity”.
-K.P. Yohannan
"If you look down into a well, if it be empty it will appear to be very deep, but if there be water in it you will see its brightness. I believe that many 'deep' preachers are simply so because they are like dry wells with nothing whatever in them, except decaying leaves, a few stones, and perhaps a dead cat or two. If there be living water in your preaching it may be very deep, but the light of truth will give clearness to it."
-C.H. Spurgeon
It God gave you a thousand dollars every time you shared your faith in Jesus Christ, would you share your faith? Let's be honest: many of us would quit our day jobs and become full-time evangelists! Every one of us, including me, ought to repent of the fact that we would share Jesus for a measly dollar bill, instead of sharing Him because of the unconditional love that He has for each one
of us. Would you be more zealous for money than for God?
Would you deal with your laziness problem for the love of money when you won't deal with it for the love of God?
We can't serve both God and mammon. We can never repay Jesus for what He did for us on the cross, but what a fantastic thank-you we can give Him each time we step out and share our faith in Him with the lost!
-Mark Cahill
"There are two sorts of prayers- those expressed in words, and the unuttered longings which abide as silent meditations. Words are not the essence but the garments of prayer... There may be prevailing intercession where there are no words; and alas! there may be words where there is no true supplication. Let us cultivate the spirit of prayer, which is even better than the habit of prayer."
-C.H. Spurgeon
"If God hides our sin or lessens it, He is faulty; if He leaves it still upon us, we die. He must then take our iniquity to Himself, make it His own, and so deliver us; for thus having taken the sin upon Himself, as lawfully He may and lovingly He does, it follows that we live if He lives; and who can desire more?"
-John Bunyan
The 'flesh' is too bad to be cleansed;
it must be crucified.
-Watchman Nee [i](The Normal Christian Life)
A church with apostolic foundations is that body of people whose central impulse and principle of life, being and service is [b]one thing only,
-Art Katz ([i]Apostolic Foundations
"It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners, as it is in captive nations today. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to pay the price for the priviledge of preaching, so we excepted their terms. It was a deal: we preached and they beat us. We were happy preaching; they were happy beating us - so everyone was happy." -Richard Wurmbrand
"Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He says."
-A.W. Tozer
'...the restoration of the church will surely come only from a new type of monasticism which has nothing in common with the old but a complete lack of compromise in a life lived in accordance with the Sermon on the Mount in the discipleship of Christ. I think it is time to gather people together to do this...'
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Where the result which he desired did not attend his own ministry, he would spend days and nights almost constantly on his knees, weeping and pleading before God; and especially deploring his own inadequacy to the great work of saving souls. He was at times when he perceived no movement in the church, literally in agonies; travailing in birth for precious souls, till he saw Christ magnified in their salvation."
--Life of John Smith
"It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right."[b]A.W. Tozer
[i]I think I may already have told you about my great friend, Pastor Fjord Christensen in Denmark. A lady once came to him and said: 'My sufferings and afflictions are so heavy and they have lasted for so many years.' He only replied: 'Have you become a liberal theologian? The Bible says that afflictions are light and only last for a moment.' She spoke as a liar, but he spoke as a man of faith. Which of them was speaking the truth? He was and the lady accepted it. The truth made her free and she was brought back into contact with reality.
~ Poul Madsen
Time With God
"The fruit of the Spirit is. . .joy. . ." (Gal. 5:22).
Preached with little freedom. Weariness of body is against me; but still more want of much prayer through the previous week. God will not let me preach with power when I am not much with Him. More than ever do I feel that I should be as much an intercessor as a preacher of the word. Also I have been taught that joy in the Spirit is the frame in which God blesses us to others. Joy arises from fellowship with Him--I find that whatever sorrow or humiliation of spirit presses on us, that should give way in some measure to a fresh taste of God's love when going forth to preach.
-Andrew Bonar
"Hell is the final and eternal doom of spiritually insane, sin-deluded souls, fools who made a mock at sin (Prov. 14:9) when God had warned, 'Be sure your sin will find you out' (Num. 32:23). Hell is the eternal prison of the insane, soul-deluded religionists who had the hallucination that they could get to Heaven by morality, good works, church membership, confirmation, baptism-any way-but who rejected Christ's sure, simple directions: 'I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me' (John 14:6)."
-Fred Barlow
“If I were to go down to Hell I would shout, “Glory! Glory! Unto my blessed Jesus until I made the bottomless pit ring again, and that miserable old Satan would say, ‘Billy, Billy, this is no place for thee; get thee back.’ Then up to Heaven I would go, shouting, “Glory, glory, praise the Lord!’”
-Billy Bray
Church is all fun and games until someone gets poked in the "I".
~unknown~
the disciples didn't ask Jesus, "teach us how to preach". L.R.
"The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power. A rationalized faith, a socialized Church, and a moralized gospel may gain applause, but they awaken no conviction and win no converts."
-Samuel Chadwick
"God's grace is sufficient for us anywhere His providence places us." ... Anonymous
"So God established this painful way, this suffering way as the only way as He could recover and establish the law of values, a preciousness, to save man from his superficiality in regard to the most costly things. Anything that comes from God will sooner or later, pass into the realm of suffering, into the realm of travail to find out how much value we put upon it, how much it really means to us, how much we have seen of God in it, it will become a matter of life or death."
-T. Austin Sparks
"The most pitiful thing I have seen in this life is men without christ and have peace."
-Gary Kopfstein
from: [b]A Prayer From Hell
https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?lid=15966
[b]The Gospel of Satan - Arthur Pink
The gospel of Satan is not a system of revolutionary principles, nor yet a program of anarchy. It does not promote strife and war, but aims at peace and unity. It seeks not to set the mother against her daughter nor the father against his son, but fosters the fraternal spirit whereby the human race is regarded as one great "brotherhood." It does not seek to drag down the natural man, but to improve and uplift him. It advocates education and cultivation and appeals to the "best that is within us." It aims to make this world such a comfortable and congenial habitat that Christ's absence from it will not be felt and God will not be needed. It endeavors to occupy man so much with this world that he has no time or inclination to think of the world to come. It propagates the principles of self-sacrifice, charity and benevolence, and teaches us to live for the good of others, and to be kind to all. It appeals strongly to the carnal mind and is popular with the masses, because it ignores the solemn facts that by nature man is a fallen creature, alienated from the life of God, and dead in trespasses and sins, and that his only hope lies in being born again.
There is a common worldly kind of Christianity
in this day, which many have, and think they
have enough.
This cheap Christianity . . .
offends nobody,
requires no sacrifice,
costs nothing,
and is worth nothing!
J.C Ryle
If you feel at any time "death working in you," as doubtless you will, withering the bloom of your
religious devoutness, chilling the fervor of your devotions, and quenching the allegiance of your
faith, remember, He who first aroused you to life in Christ must keep you alive. The Spirit of God is
like the sap that flowed into your poor dry branch, because you were grafted into Christ, and by
that sap alone you can ever bring forth fruit to God.
-Spurgeon
"A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing
that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world."
~A.W. Tozer
"The Church did
the most when
the Church was
the least like the world."
G. Campbell Morgan
"Eternity to the
godly is a day
that has no sunset.
Eternity to the godless is a night
that has
no sunrise. "
Thomas Watson
"A hundred years
ago they read
less about the
bible and more
out of the old
Book itself!"
Charles L. Goodell
"Churches do
not win souls;
individual
Christians
do."
~John R. Rice
"The preacher’s task is to cry, as
did John the Baptist, “Behold
the Lamb of
God;” not to
attract attention
to himself or
to gather a clique around himself.”
~Erling C. Olsen
"At any point in all of Eternity, we can say, '[i]This is just the beginning.
- Leonard Ravenhill
:-(
"If you don't have a heart that burns for God, it's no wonder you don't care that souls burn in hell without Him"
He frequently emphasized the fact that anything which is not Christ in resurrection is not the church, and anything not done by the resurrected Christ is a [i]foreign element
-Watchman Nee quoted
To think of God "as the One Great Circumstance in Whom we live, and move, and have our being; and of all lesser, external circumstances as necessarily the kindest, wisest, best, because they are either ordered or permitted by Him." J. Hudson Taylor
Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do
not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal
to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no
miracle, but you yourself shall be a miracle. Every day you
shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has
come to you by the grace of God.
... Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
What sin is so sweet or profitable, that is
worth burning in hell for—or worth being shut
out of heaven for?
-Thomas Brooks
"It is a very sad and dangerous
thing to trifle and dally with . . .
God,
His word,
our own souls,
and eternity!"
-Thomas Brooks
"A frequent and serious consideration of hell-fire, and
of your happy deliverance from it, may very well bear and
cheer up your hearts under all your greatest sufferings."
-Thomas Brooks
For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.
... Thomas a' Kempis (1380-1471)
I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I am.
... John Newton (1725-1807)
"If there is anything in my thoughts or style to commend, the credit is due to my parents for instilling in me an early love of the Scriptures. If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity."- Daniel Webster
"The doctrinal ignorance of the evangelical church is shocking, matched only by its cowardice, I fear." - MacArthur
The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard. An increase of secret prayer with ministers will be the sure harbinger of blessing.- Andrew Murray
We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.- E.M. Bounds
Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the selfsufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than by shouting at Him all night. - Smith Wigglesworth
"The greatest failure of the church is to prepare God's people for suffering." Basilea Schlink
"What is Christianity all about? It is about a intimate relationship with God. And I HATE a christendom, a churchianity that God is not big enough and glorious enough so that we have to give them other things."
-Paul Washer
"The silkworm is like a Christian; it feeds on nothing but mulberry leaves, and spews forth silk threads - the Lord's love until its last breath before its transformation into a moth with its own heavenly life. It is able to produce vast numbers of spiritual offspring for posterity."
-John Sung
Pain is the God's gift for the spiritual progress!
I really appreciate the quote found in Greg's (SermonIndex's) signature:
"What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life—to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!
Pambus wept when he saw a harlot dressed with much care and cost—partly to see one take so much pains to go to hell; and partly because he had not been so careful to please God, as she had been to please her sluttish lovers. Ah, Christians! What great reason have you to sit down and weep bitterly—that worldlings take so much pains to make themselves miserable—and that you have taken no more pains to get more of Christ into your hearts!"
- Thomas Brooks, 1608-1680
:-(
"One of the reasons we are not as Christ-centered and cross-saturated as we should be is that we have not realized that everything---everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good of his redeemed children---was purchased by the death of Christ for us. We simply take life and breath and health and friends and everything for granted. We think it is ours by right. But the fact is that it is not ours by right. We are doubly undeserving of it."
-John Piper
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness (Romans 1:18)
"And nobody believes this, not even Christians,
because if we did we'd cry,
and when we were done crying we would go,
and when we went we would tell,
and we don't tell because we don't cry,
and we don't go because we don't care.
Do you believe that for pagan men and women there is only a fearful expectation of judgment? That it is appointed unto men once to die and after this then comes the judgment? That it is the Bible that sets the whole world into perspective. What an awesome thing says the writer to fall into the hands of the living God. And you don't need to fall into the hands of the living God in a prospect of judgment, you can be welcomed into the arms of the living God. "
-Alistair Begg
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
Many people will walk through our lives, but few will leave footprints on our hearts
"Let us be ever careful that we not pursue the Cross-centered life without returning frequently to the Cross itself."
-anonymous
Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
--Corrie ten Boom
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes
Many people will walk through our lives, but few will leave footprints on our hearts
Your friend is the one who knows all about you and still likes you
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend
A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
"Faith differs from superstition in its ground of hope. Faith rests upon character, specifically the character of God. A word is only as good as the character of the one who uttered it. Superstition counts upon a word, a text, and never thinks back of the text to the one who gave it. For the superstitious man there is a magic power in a word quite apart from the one who spoke it. The very word is magical and has only to be spoken under the right circumstances to be effective; morality or character have no place in this scheme of things. Words only count there. This in its various manifestations is a sure mark of superstition. Even in some Christian circles this ill-grounded trust in sounds and symbols is encountered all too frequently. Some believers, for instance, fear to speak the name of Jesus apart from the titles which accompany it. They dare not say Jesus, but must always say the Lord Jesus Christ, regardless of the circumstances. Obviously they believe that God is concerned with the protocol of word arrangement and will be displeased if the order is broken. Such words as amen, hallelujah, glory and others of like sacred association are repeated endlessly and meaninglessly in the apparent belief that they have in them some strange power for good. This can be no more than high-grade magic. It will pay us to search our own hearts thoroughly to discover just why we use these words."
-A.W. Tozer
When I get to heaven,
I shall see three wonders there.
The first wonder will be to see
many there whom I did not expect to see;
the second wonder will be to miss
many people who I did expect to see;
and the third and greatest of all
will be to find myself there.
John Newton.
"It is easier to speak about revival than to set about it."
-Horatius Bonar
"The devil fears the soul united with God as he does God himself"
St.John of the Cross
"The Word of God is a looking glass, to show us our spots; and the blood of Christ is a fountain to wash them away."
-Thomas Watson
'I have had a deep conviction for many years that practical holiness and entire self-consecration to God are not sufficiently attended to by modern Christians in this country. Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background. The standard of living has become painfully low in many quarters. Sound doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless: it does positive harm...it is my firm impression that we need a thorough revival about scriptural holiness'.
-J.C. Ryle
"Let us not rust out. Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly out of it without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Blessed Redeemer. At the very least, let us see to it that when the Devil gets news of our departure from the battlefield, he throws a thanksgiving party in hell."
-C.T. Studd
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
-Samuel Johnson
"He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride."
-John Bunyan
"Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset;
eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise."
"If a wicked man seems to have peace at death,
it is not from the knowledge of his happiness,
but from the ignorance of his danger."
-Thomas Watson
"A life spent in the service of God and
in communion with him, is the most
pleasant life that any one can live
in the world." - Matthew Henry
"I believe that the widespread unbelief, indifference, formalism and wickedness, which are to be seen throughout Christendom, are only what we are taught to expect in God’s Word. Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted. So far from making me doubt the truth of Christianity, they help to confirm my faith. Melancholy and sorrowful as the sight is, if I did not see it I should think the Bible was not true."
-J.C. Ryle
"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word DARKNESS on the walls of his cell."
-C.S. Lewis
"When the Son of Man shall come in His glory and assign every man his own reward, that reward will undoubtedly be proportioned (1) to our inward holiness, our likeness to God; (2) to our works; and (3) to our sufferings." - John Wesley
"God does not prosper a man's business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel. He prospers a business so that twelve percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation. " John Piper
"As I was walking in the fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming power, that every one of my flock must soon be in heaven or hell. Oh how I wished that I had a tongue like thunder, that I might make all hear."
Robert Murray McCheyne
“Worldliness is that system of values in any given culture that makes sin look normal and which makes righteousness look strange or alien.”
David Wells
In some countries today there is great concern among the large Christian bodies to make the Church popular. Every conceivable scheme is being brought into play in order to attract people to the Church. It is forgotten that the true Church can never be attractive to the world, and was never meant to be. It is something which is completely beyond the world's understanding. People are brought into the Church through the witness of the Lord's children who comprise the Church. When the life of Christ is expressed through a spiritual order, believers will maintain a witness that is spiritually effective. Others will be regenerated, and they will be added to the Church, not because they, as worldly people, were attracted to it, but because they have been subject to a divine change which enables them to enter into life on a higher plane. The Church's mission is not to fit into the world, but to see men changed so that they will fit into the Church. John W. Kennedy
The Christian soldier must avoid two evils—he must not faint or yield in the time of fight, and after a victory he must not wax insolent and secure. When he has overcome, he is so to behave himself as though he were presently again to be assaulted. For Satan's temptations, like the waves of the sea, do follow one in the neck of the other.
—George Downame
When the soul puts her danger furthest off, and lies most secure, then 'tis nearest; therefore labour to be constant in thy holy care—the want of this spoils all. Some you shall have, that after a great fall into a sin that hath bruised them sorely, will seem very careful for a time where they set their foot, how they walk, and what company they come in, but as soon as the soreness of their consciences wears off, their watch breaks up, and they are as careless as ever; like one that is very careful to shut up his shop strongly, and maybe sit up late to watch it also, for two or three nights after it hath been robbed, but then minds it no more.
—William Gurnall
"The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still." - A. W. Tozer
"Prayer is buried, and lost and Heaven weeps. If all prayed, the
wicked would flee from our midst or to the refuge." - Evan Roberts
"The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world
are those within the Church." - John R. Mott
"When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come
in contact with." – Frank Bartleman
"Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much
labor expended to little purpose." - James O. Fraser
"You must GO forward on your knees." - J. Hudson Taylor
"Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only
he can keep them from praying. When a church is truly convinced
that prayer is where the action is, that church will so construct its
corporate activities that the prayer program will have the highest
priority." - Paul E. Billheimer
"How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches
and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they
practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work
themselves." - C.T. Studd
"God is presently seeking for a humble, praying people that He
can pour His glory through. If we will not yield to the Holy Spirit in
humble obedience, He will find a people who will! Some of us may
have to visit someone else's fellowship in order to experience the
coming move of God. Let's not deceive ourselves, God is not
committed to use us, but He is committed to remember the prayer
of the humble. (Psa. 9:12). If we refuse to prescribe to the Christ
honored methods of humility and prayer, we will certainly be
refused for the Master's use in the coming revival." - David Smithers
"No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil;
not that he practices it, but he suffers from it." - Guy H. King
"At God's counter there are no "SALE DAYS," for the price of
revival is ever the same - TRAVAIL" - Leonard Ravenhill
"It seems to me that there are but few who really live with a
passion for God - especially a passion just to be with Him. Today
there is such a noise coming up before the throne of the Most High -
the clamor of so-called praise, singing, and joyful shouting. But I
wonder if the same people who love to sing and shout, loudly
exclaiming the the praises of God, really have such an intense
glory in their secret life with the Lord. When the meeting's over
and there's no one there to listen except the only One who matters,
do you still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be
alone with the Living God?" - Keith Green
"We need more men like John Knox in pulpits today; men who know the truth and are willing to risk their lives for it if need be."
-D.R. Brooker
"Workers that are strangers to knee work may work up a
temporary excitement, but never will be able to secure the copious
outpourings of genuine revival power." - Martin Wells Knapp
"It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won.
We must conquer all our circumstances there. We must first of all
bring them there. We must survey them there. We must master
them there. In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the
Presence of God and we fight them there. Have you tried that? Or
have you been satisfied to meet and fight your foes in the open
spaces of the world?" - J. H. Jowett
"The devils war is better then the devils peace."
-Samuel Rutherford
"He that leaves off prayer leaves off the fear of God. ‘You cast off
fear, and restrain prayer before God ‘ (Job 15: 4). A man that
leaves off prayer is capable of any wickedness. When Saul had
given up inquiring of God he went to the witch of Endor" - Thomas Watson
"God has a good deal more to give than most of us are getting.
"Knee-ology" is a much-neglected branch of Christian ethics. The
Church loses immeasurably in strength and accelerated power by
failing to test the wonderful promises of God in prayer. Oh, for
somebody who can really pray. Why need a church languish and
die and have no one converted the year round? Somebody
neglects to pray. Why need a community be without a revival for
years? Somebody neglects to pray. Why need the missionary
cause and current expenses of the church suffer? Somebody
neglects to pray. Why need the church resort to unscriptural
methods to raise money? Somebody neglects to pray. Oh, for a
praying church! Brother, sister, apply this directly to your own
heart. Are you neglecting to pray ?" – C. E. Cornell
"Since the days of Pentecost, has the whole church ever put aside
every other work and waited upon Him for ten days, that the
Spirit’s power might be manifested? We give too much attention to
method and machinery and resources, and too little to the source
of power." -Hudson Taylor
"If I cannot hear 'the sound of rain' long before the rain falls, and
then go out to some hilltop of the Spirit, as near to my God as I
can and have faith to wait there with my face between my knees,
though six times or sixty times I am told 'there is nothing', till at
last there arises a little cloud out of the sea, then I know nothing
of Calvary love." (Read 1 Kings 18:41-45). - Amy Carmichael
"It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe
into a prayer room, and continue in the Spirit as we go from place
to place." - George Bowen
"That, which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort."
- John Flavel
"Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my
people!" - Jeremiah 9:1
"Christ was in an agony at prayer (Luke 22: 44). Many when they
pray are rather in a lethargy, than in an agony. When they are
about the world they are all fire; when they are at prayer, they are
all Ice." - Thomas Watson
"Oh for true, unfeigned humility! I know I have cause to be humble, and yet I do not know one half of that cause. I know I am proud, and yet I do not know the half of that pride." Robert M'Cheyne
"I have never known a person sweat blood; but I have known a
person pray till the blood started from his nose. And I have known
persons to pray till they were all wet with perspiration, in the
coldest weather in winter. I have known persons pray for hours, till
their strength was all exhausted with the agony of their minds.
Such prayers prevailed with God." – Charles G. Finney
"The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it! You
want to be taught to pray. My answer is pray and never faint, and
then you shall never fail. There is no peradventure. You cannot fail....
A sense of real want is at the very root of prayer." - John Laidlaw
"Satan strikes either at the root of faith or at the root of diligence."
- John Livingstone
"A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men."
– Leonard Ravenhill
"When God is about to give His people the expected good, He
pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming
towards them in mercy. Then when you see the expected end
approaching, then you shall call upon Me. Note, promises are
given not to supersede, but to quicken and encourage prayer: and
when deliverance is coming we must by prayer go forth to meet it.
When Daniel understood the 70 years were near expiring, then he
set his face with more fervency than ever to seek the Lord
(Dan. 9:2, 3)." - Matthew Henry
"God never denied that soul anything that went as far as heaven to
ask for it." - John Trapp
"So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and
stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not
destroy it; but I found no one." - Ezekiel 22:30
"When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch
strength against him, and therefore he opposeth us all he can."
- Richard Sibbes
"It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe
into a prayer room, and continue in the Spirit as we go from place
to place." - George Bowen
"God is presently seeking for a humble, praying people that He
can pour His glory through. If we will not yield to the Holy Spirit in
humble obedience, He will find a people who will! Some of us may
have to visit someone else's fellowship in order to experience the
coming move of God. Let's not deceive ourselves, God is not
committed to use us, but He is committed to remember the prayer
of the humble. (Psa. 9:12). If we refuse to prescribe to the Christ
honored methods of humility and prayer, we will certainly be
refused for the Master's use in the coming revival." - David Smithers
"It has often been said that prayer is the greatest force in the
universe. This is no exaggeration. It will bear constant repetition.
In this atomic age when forces are being released that stagger the
thought and imagination of man, it is well to remember that prayer
transcends all other forces." - F. J. Huegel
"They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the
state of their own souls." – Adam Clarke
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