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"There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life." - Leonard Ravenhill
The place where God has put the wife is the husband's home. Most people have forgotten nowadays what a home can mean - it is a kingdom of its own in the midst of the world; a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary. It is not founded on the shifting sands of outward or public life, but it has its resting place in God, for God gives it its special meaning and value, its own nature and privilege, its own destiny and dignity. It is an ordinance of God in the world, the place in which - whatever may happen in the world - peace, quietness, joy, love, purity, discipline, respect, obedience, tradition, and with it all happiness may dwell. It is the wife's calling, and her happiness, to build up for her husband, this world within the world, and to do her life's work there. How happy she is if she realises how great and rich a task and destiny she has. - Dietrich Boenhoffer
“Is there any other way to come to the joy-filled life that we all long for except by dying?” - Basilea Schlink
“Whole denominations, ministries and churches bow to the Baals of productivity and power. We want bigger buildings, bigger budgets and bigger badges – all for the kingdom of course.” -David Orton
"What began as a movement in Jerusalem became a philosophy in Greece, an empire in Rome, a culture in England and an enterprise in America."
--anonymous
"Give me a love that leads the way, a faith which nothing can dismay!" Amy Carmichael
"A hundred thousand souls a day
are passing one by one away
in christless guilt and gloom
O Church of Christ, what wilt thou say,
When in that awful judgment day
They charge thee with their doom?"
-A.B. Simpson
"Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of "other things." Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be a flame. But flame is transient, often short-lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul--short life? In me there dwells the Spirit of the Great Short-Lived, whose zeal for God's house consumed Him. Make me thy fuel, Flame of God." Jim Elliot
"All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on God being with them." Hudson Taylor
“Our culture, society, government, and law are in the conditions they are in, not because of a conspiracy, but because the church has forsaken its duty to be the salt of the culture.” (Francis Schaeffer)
“The devil is a liar. Even when he tells the truth. Never believe what the devil says. (Brother Andrew)
“If you wish to know God, you must know His Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by His Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.” (Charles Spurgeon)
"What a word, what a thought, is ETERNITY! What prospects does it set before us! What inconceivable mysteries are involved in it! How does it make the things of time dwindle into insignificance! What questions of unspeakable importance, are involved in it!" Legh Richmond
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When any child of God decides to step out in absolute obedience to the will of God, there will be a frantic effort by the powers of darkness to block him. ~ Isobel Kuhn
"It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will." David Brainerd
You can ask a person if he wants to go to heaven, thats not the question; everybody wants to go to heaven, they just don't want God to be there when they get there. (PAUL WASHER ).
“Unless the Church senses her Divine resources—unseen, untapped, unlimited,--she is tempted to resort to any means,--fair, fleshly, or foul, -- to command attention. We need to remember that heresy of method can be as deadly as heresy of message.” L. E. Maxwell
"A true disciple is one that doth follow Him (Christ) in duty, and shall follow Him to glory." Matthew Henry
"This is a life of faith, for God will try the truth of our faith, so that the world may see that God has such servants as will depend upon His bare word." Richard Sibbes
"The only real life is to live in the light of eternity--to use all we possess for the promotion of God's glory and with an eye to the everlasting mansions. This, and only this is life in earnest." C. H. Mackintosh
"Never doubt in the darkness what the Lord has shown you in the light."[i]- Zac Poonen
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"...What, then, is an innocent amusement? It must be that and only that which not only might be but actually is engaged in with a single eye to God's glory and the interests of His kingdom. If this be not the ultimate and supreme design, it is not an innocent but a sinful amusement." -Charles Finney
"The brokenness of spirit which makes no resistance to the Father's hand is a main element of fertility in souls wherein He works. It is not power He seeks from us, but weakness; not resistant force, but 'yieldingness' to Him. All power is His: His strength is perfected in weakness." (author unknown)
"The real sermon is made in the closet. The man -- God's man -- is made in the closet. His life and his profoundest convictions were born in his secret communion with God. The burdened and tearful agony of his spirit, his weightiest and sweetest messages were got when alone with God. Prayer makes the man; prayer makes the preacher; prayer makes the pastor." (E.M Bounds)
"If thou shouldst lose but a limb, a child, or a friend, it would not be so much, but poor man it is THY SOUL; if it was to lie in hell but for a day, but for a year, nay, ten thousand years, it would (in comparison) be nothing. But O it is for ever! O this cutting EVER! What a soul-amazing word will that be, which saith, ‘Depart from me, ye cursed, into EVERLASTING fire’!"
(John Bunyan, quoted from his book 'The Heavenly Footman')
"Faith is trained to its supreme mission under the discipline of patience. The man who can wait God's time, knowing that He edits his prayer in wisdom and affection, will always discover that He never comes to man's aid one minute too soon or too late." Dr. Stuart Holden
"The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith. The beginning of faith is the end of anxiety." Mrs. Charles Cowman
"He answered prayer: so sweetly that I stand amid the blessing of His wondrous hand and marvel at the miracle I see, the favors that His love hath wrought for me. Pray on for the impossible, and dare upon thy banner this brave motto bear, 'My Father answers prayer.'" (unknown)
"If you don't trust where you have your money, the world stops"[i]- Warren Buffett
"Our heavenly Father delights to trust a trustworthy child with a trial." J. Hudson Taylor.
"To date our generation will be remembered in history as largely made up of those who gloried in the fact that they stood for nothing."
- Brenden Bott
"Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments after. Begin the day with God." J. Hudson Taylor
"My mistake has too often been that of too much haste. But it is not the people's way to hurry, nor is it God's way either. Hurry means worry, and worry effectually drives the peace of God from the heart." James O. Fraser
"The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth."
- John Brown
"A holy temple in the Lord. Will you pray for that vision, that revelation?"
-T Austin Sparks
"Go, send or disobey"
-John Piper
"How I long to be centered in thee - so completely centered in Thee that I do not realize it - none of self and all of Thee." Oswald Chambers
"There can be no revival in America until there is a complete collapse of the economy and the Church of Christ is forced to abandon their idols (materialism), repent and truly seek God."
-David Wilkerson
"I am a creature of God, and He has an undoubted right to do with me as seemeth good in His sight. He has my heart in His hands, and when I am called to face danger, to pass through scenes of terror and distrust, He can inspire me with fortitude, and enable me to trust in Him." Ann "Nancy" Judson
"O lonely soul, dwell deep, God plans thy life, and He plans only what is best, dwell deep, He watches thee." Oswald J. Smith
"I yield my powers to Thy command, to Thee I consecrate my days; perpetual blessings from Thine hand demand perpetual songs of praise." Isaac Watts.
“If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”
- C.T. Studd
“The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph.”
- Samuel Zwemer
"Lord, here am I. Use me, in prayer, in gift, in service, just as Thou wilt and on to the very end." Dr. & Mrs. Howard Taylor
When reproved, pay no attention to the scource. Do not ask whether it is friend or an enemy that reproves you. An enemy is often of greater value to you than a friend because he is not influenced by sympathy. A.W. Tozer
"Are the things you're living for worth Christ dying for?" Gravestone of Leonard Ravenhill
"There will never come to you any experience so dark but that God's light will pierce through." C. C. Kauffman
"The primary task of the Church is not to educate man, is not to heal him physically or psychologically.... I will go further; it is not even to make him good. These are things that accompany salvation; and when the Church performs her true task she does incidentally educate men and give them knowledge and information...she does make them good and better than they were. But my point is that those are not her primary objectives. Her primary purpose is not any of these; it is rather to put man into the right relationship with God, to reconcile man to God." Martyn Lloyd-Jones (on what the church is for)
"The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory." Richard Sibbes
"If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.” (Robert Murray McCheyne)
Who cares who frowns, if God smiles."
Catherine Booth
"Nothing is lost by boldness, and nothing is gained by fear" Marin lloyd jones (I think)
"I shall preach as if I shall ne'er preach again, as if a dying man to dying men."
Web Peoples
"If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that ‘It is not by might, but by My Spirit." Jonathan Goforth
"What is the real value of a thing but the price it will bear in eternity?" John Wesley
"A glorious band, the chosen few on whom the Spirit came; Twelve valiant saints, their hope they knew, And mocked the cross and flame. They met the tyrant’s brandished steel, The lion’s gory mane; They bowed their heads the death to feel: Who follows in their train?" Reginald Heber (The Son of God Goes Forth to War)
"Faith is trained to its supreme mission under the discipline of patience. The man who can wait God's time, knowing that He edits his prayer in wisdom and affection, will always discover that He never comes to man's aid one menute too soon or too late." Dr. Stuart
"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. God looks for men who trust Him fully; in them He will show His power." unknown
"When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set." --Lin Yutang
"A martyr is, he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not lost it but found it, for he has found freedom in submission to God. The martyr no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of martyrdom." T.S. Elliot
"We are like an ant at the base of Mt. Everest, so focused on our little anthill that we miss the bigger picture, namely God and eternity." Bart Larson
"As a large fire begins with kindling of small twigs and branches, even so a large revival is preceded by the prayers of a few hidden seemingly insignificant souls." --Gary Amirault
"As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having: but oh, how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!" David Brainerd
Chosen not for good in me, Wakened up from wrath to flee, Hidden in the Savior’s side, By the Spirit sanctified, Teach me, Lord, on earth to show, By my love, how much I owe ~McCheyne
nickstaley wrote:Who cares who frowns, if God smiles."
Catherine Booth"Nothing is lost by boldness, and nothing is gained by fear" Marin lloyd jones (I think)
"I shall preach as if I shall ne'er preach again, as if a dying man to dying men."
Web Peoples
Great quote from a great message -
Thank you.
"After the pleasures of sin are all past, After the wealth of the world is amassed When the death-angel you face at last, O what shall thy reaping be? Sowing, sowing, sowing in Satan's might; Reaping, reaping, reaping eternal night. Come to the Saviour of sinners, come home! Why will you longer so aimlessly roam? While He is pleading, O wanderer come; The Master is waiting for thee. Come home, come home, like as a weary dove; Come home, come home, unto thy Father's love." George Hopkins
"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins but are sometimes the trials resulting from God's extraordinary gifts. God uses many sharp-cutting instruments, and polishes His jewels with files that are rough. And those saints that He especially loves, and desires to make shine the most brilliantly, will often feel His tools upon them." ~ R. Leighton
"I willingly bear witness to the fact that I owe more to my Lord's fire, hammer, and file than to anything else in His workshop. Sometimes I wonder if I have ever learned anything except at the end of God's rod. When my classroom is darkest, I see best." ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
"Not called" Did you say?
"Not heard the call", I think you should say.
Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin.
- William Booth
"And so, when God brings us to an end of ourselves, hedging us in on every side and shattering our hopes, let us take heart! He is preparing us for greater usefulness by bringing us first to the place of impotence. He's equipping us to produce Isaacs." Zac Poonen
Shouldst thou nou not weep over such a people, and should not thy tears interrupt thy words? Shouldst thou not cry aloud, and show them their transgressions; and entreat and beseech them as for life and death?
- Richard Baxter
It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.
Samuel Chadwick
"Eternity is too long to be wrong about."
-Greg Gordon
"It matters little. I could not have returned to Herrnhut anyway for ten years, for the time has come to gather the pilgrim congregation and preach the Savior to the whole world. Our home will be that particular place where at the moment our Savior has the most for us to do." Count Zinzendorf after being banished from Saxony
“Every time you hear a message your responsibility increases, your condemnation increases. When you hear the highest truths of God here, you have the potential to rise much higher or to sink much lower.”
-Zac Poonen
"Painted fire never burns"
G. Campbell Morgan[i](speaking of how a preacher must have passion and zeal for God, and specifically here how a false zeal will not work)
"Secret sins, like secret conspirators, must be hunted out."
-C. H. Spurgeon
"Far more dark and terrible in this world, now, than at a time ago... Our outlook goes beyond this world to the hopeful expectation of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. Almost all the signs of the times you can read in newspapers.
Are you scared? Look at the last page!...
The moment that it (persecution) comes, the Lord will give you your train ticket and it is not only for persecution but for all our suffering..."
(Corrie Ten Boom)
isn't it amazing that you and i have the ability to take the most trivial thing and turn it into a god? ... the thing that most consumes your thoughts - is your god.
-paul washer
the trials that those men do meet withal,
that are obedient to the heavenly call,
are manifold, and suited to the flesh,
and come, and come, and come again afresh;
that now, or sometimes else, we by them may
be taken, overcome, and cast away.
o let the pilgrims, let the pilgrims then,
be vigilant, and quit themsleves like men!
john bunyan, as "faithful", the pilgrim's progress
Joyful, boundless, loving grace brings a smile upon my face! It spreads a heavenly light around! Oh, may I know the joyful sound!!! ~ Ray Hart
"Life is so brief... Every choice matters... Every moment counts... Who is sufficient for these things... Always in need of the grace of God." - Paul Washer
"A genuine rival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light."
-Charles Spurgeon
"My friends if you want a reason for not loving Christ don't turn to John. He knew Him too long. I don't believe a man can read the gospel of John without being turned to Christ."
— D. L. Moody
"Prosperity is a more refined and severe test of character than adversity, as one hour of summer sunshine produces greater corruption than the longest winter day" Eliza Cook
"I am convinced it would be devastating if U.S. came out of this economic crisis . . . without having turned to God in repentance."
-Byron Paulus
"We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep." - Spurgeon.
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Roosevelt from a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910
"We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable… Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He is that standard." -A.W. Tozer
"The preachers are the greatest problem in the United States of America." - Paul Washer
"Remember that the present moment is where we meet God. It is His moment; use it. Every moment He gives us, He gives for His glory. The present moment becomes the eternal moment of which we must give an account to God. Do not waste it! May God be all in all to you in every moment, both now and forever." Jeanne Guyon
"Professing Christ but Loving Sin." - Ryan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvDAygfVVX0
"Sin is horrible to a believer, because it crucified his Savior! He sees in every iniquity--the nails and the spear! How can a saved soul behold that cursed kill-Christ sin--without abhorrence? My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries--lest you come to smile at sin itself! Sin is your Lord's enemy, and your enemy--view it with detestation, for only so, can you evidence the possession of holiness, without which no man can see the Lord." Charles Spurgeon
"Set your mind on eternity. This life is passing. Live for the Lord. Let your zeal for Him consume you. Lavish your life on Him!" -Paul Washer
"I cannot stop thinking about all that could be done if only we would collectively turn our eyes from this world and focus on the Kingdom." - Paul Washer
"Young man or woman, do not waste your life. You will soon be old and worn. Spend your life for true riches. Give yourself to Christ's call." - Paul Washer
"It is when the tide comes in, that every pool is filled, and all the separate little pools are lost in the great ocean. It is as all believers who know or seek this blessing begin to pray as intensely for each other and all their brethren, as for themselves, that the power of the Spirit will be fully known."
- Andrew Murray
As we pass through trials, most of our wounds are self-inflicted. We are scarred by stress and anxiety because we do not believe our God.
-Paul Washer
"We can speak appropriately and please men. Or we can trust God and risk everything." - Art Katz
"He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity." (Ecc. 5:10)
"The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so. " George Whitefield
“It is a sickening thought that, while Christians frequently quarrel, we never hear of the devils doing so. The Church of God is divided, but the kingdom of darkness appears to be one. Whatever intestine strife there may be between evil spirits, we have no hint of it here; they all seem to act in complete unison. Whether hate is a more compacting principle than love, I will not venture to say; but certainly these haters of God and of his truth appear to be knit together as though they were one devil rather than a multitude of evil spirits, yet the lovers of the Lord Jesus Christ are not knit together as one man under his blessed rule.”
- Charles Spurgeon
In vain does any man pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an appetite, nor restrain a lust, nor subdue a passion, nor cross his covetousness and ambition, for the sake of it, and in hope of that eternal life, “which God, that cannot lie, hath promised.” He that refuseth to do the less, is not like to do the greater. It is very improbable, that a man will die for his religion, when he cannot be persuaded to live according to it. - John Tillotson
"Only praying men touch God!" - David Wilkerson
"A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons"
Leonard Ravenhill (said during his sermon 'God is worthy of worship)
"If you don't trust and obey then you'll rust and decay!"
Leonard Ravenhill
"As a man lives, so he prays"
- Andrew Murray
Any one that does not evangelize on a regular basis (that have the ability to), either do not believe in hell, or are on their way there. --George Alvarado
I like a pipe organ in a church, especially where the preacher is a liberal. I enjoy counting the pipes and trying to guess which frond the console is hidden behind while the preacher distills his learned doubts over the congregation. Tozer
"Begin to know Him now, and finish never." O. Chambers
"God will not judge us according to how much we endured, but how much we could love. The Christians who suffer for their faith in prisons could love. I am a witness that they could love both God and men."
Former underground church pastor who was imprisoned for his faith.
"At best, we are but clay, animated dust, mere walking hillocks; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a wonder, that the Lord Jesus should set His heart’s love upon such as we are. " C. H. Spurgeon
The early Brethren (Dunkers)—a cousin movement to the Mennonites and Amish—practiced a lively evangelistic outreach. But the typical Anabaptist emphasis on showing, not just telling, one's faith remained strong. When Brethren evangelist Rufus P. Bucher was asked by a stranger in a railway station, "Brother, are you saved?" He replied that since he might be prejudiced on the question, his interrogator should go ask his wife, children, and neighbors. "I'll be ready to let their answers stand as my own." ~http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/2004/issue84/4.02.html?start=1
“There is no offense whatsoever in going to India, into the heart of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam and declaring that we are there to talk about social justice and public policy and the concerns of poverty. There is no shame in that.All of the shame lies in going there to declare that Jesus is Sovereign Lord, He is the Savior, and He is the only way. And it is that message which is foolishness in India and foolish in America which is the message that we have been called to proclaim and to live, and the implications of which put the foot down in the realm of justice and in the concerns of poverty and so on.But I have a sneaking suspicion and an increasingly deep-seated concern that there is here in North America a growing loss of confidence in the Bible itself as the unerring word of God and an increasing willingness to play fast and loose with the uniqueness of the claims of Jesus of Nazareth, and to the extent that that is true, the cutting edge of world evangelization is radically affected.”
-Alistair Begg
Our weaknesses are not as negative as we may believe. They make us rely upon God's grace and power for greater Christlikeness and ministry.
-Paul Washer
God is an inexhaustible source of all we need. Our unbelief is discovered in how little we avail ourselves of this infinite fountain.
-Paul Washer
"I felt a bit weak in class. I should have prayed more. We are in constant need of His unction. Without it we are as powerless as a wet rag."
-Paul Washer
"Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?"
-Charles Finney
"Only a true Gospel, preached and demonstrated, by God's people can overcome the moral corruption in our country. Study! Pray! Live!"
-Paul Washer
"As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences."
(Joseph Stowell)
"God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs."
(Joseph Stowell)
"You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?" - Charles Spurgeon
"The 'flesh' is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified." -Watchman Nee
"Reproaches for Christ are ensigns of honour, badges of adoption (1 Pt. 4:14), the high honours of accusations, says Chrysostom. Let Christians bind these as a crown about their head. Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be no laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?" - Thomas Watson
“GOD IS THE TRUTH. The Bible is the truth about the Truth. The sermons are the truth about the truth about the Truth. Theology, if it is a fundamentalist one, is the truth about the truth about the truth about the Truth. And because of so much scaffolding around the Truth, because of the multitude of words, the truth is drowned. I wish you to meet God Himself, in the year which stands before us.” -Richard Wurmbrand
"Pray that we may enter into that travail of soul with Him. Nothing less is any good. Spiritual children mean travail of soul-spiritual agony." Amy Carmichael
"Christianity Has One Drawing Card-It Is Christ."
-Paul Washer
The God of holiness and eteranl majesty is hardly mentioned these days. The preachers used to declare with holy boldness to the pew dwellers, "You are lost." Today it is, "You are loved." It takes living men to deliver the living Word. Unless the preachers walk in the fear of the Lord and step out of eternity into the pulpits, the spiritual life of the nation will continue in its descent to weakness and finally apostasy.
Leonard Ravenhill[u]Revival God's Way
"Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don’t say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray now — draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God’s grace through prayer." Oswald Chambers
"The power that is in the Gospel does not lie in the eloquence of the preacher, otherwise men would be the converters of souls, nor does it lie in the preacher's learning, otherwise it would consist in the wisdom of men. We might preach until our tongues rotted, till we would exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless the Holy Spirit be with the Word of God to give it the power to convert."
-Kevin Turner
"A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing."
-Martin Luther
"In our meditation we ponder the chosen text on the strength of the promise that it has something utterly personal to say to us for this day and for our Christian life." Dietrich Bonhoeffer from "Life Together"
"Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it, or neglected to fill up each part of it with duty to the utmost of my ability and capacity" - David Brainerd
They will be shocked that their self created fantasy of what an acceptable walk with God so utterly deceived themselves." - Unknown Author
"If someone offers you pleasure for 10,000 years, say, "No thanks...at HIS right hand are pleasures for EVERMORE" (Ps 16:11)."
-John Piper
The Christian life is a life of paradox's. We must give to receive, realize we are blind to see, become simple to be wise, suffer for gain, and die to live.
"The success of a church should not be judged by its seating capacity but by its sending capacity." -Ralph Winter
"If you don't plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and walking in obedience to Him, then don't begin; for this is what Christianity is all about. It is a change of citizanship, a change of governments, a change of allegiance. If you have no intention of letting Christ rule your life, then forget Christianity; It's not for you." -Kay Arthur
"Live near to God, and all things will appear little to you in comparison with eternal realities." -Robert Murray McCheyne
"My roots are in Adam, but my fruits are in Christ" [i]- Alan Martin
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today. -- A. W. Tozer
When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything! -Oswald Chambers
"Uneasy is the heart until it rests in thee." -Augustine
“God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.” -Jim Elliot (martyred missionary to the indigenous of Ecuador)
"The more I advance in the knowledge and grace of God, the less my desire is to be in some sort of ministry God hasn't ordained. If God hasn't built the house, I don't want to live in it. If the blueprints aren't from God, I don't even want to seem them rolled out. I'd rather be a poor, unknown tenant living in a frugal hut built by God, than a wealthy socialite living in mansion built by my own religious effort." - Paul West
Wherefore, forsaking the vanity of many, and their false doctrines, let us return to the word - Polycarp
Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy - Spurgeon
"A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: ‘I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts.’ The workman answered: ‘Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees." A. T. Pierson
"The most radical treatment for the fear of man is the fear of the Lord. God must be bigger to you than people are.... Regarding other people, our problem is that we need them (for ourselves) more than we love them (for the glory of God). The task God sets for us is to need them less and love them more." --Ed Welch
Ah! what a poor vain thing is the world! I hope you will make good use of the Bible, and the throne of grace, to preserve you from being infected by the spirit of the world. (John Newton - in a letter to his wife)
"Stab us my God with Truth, things the way you see and perceive them to be, however much they are at variance with our own, we desire yours." Art Katz.
"The wisdom of this world, by which the whole world lives its life is predicated on that which comes from below, and has as its progenitor the prince of darkness." Art Katz
We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism...To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist! -CT Studd
"We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame their epitaphs, and build their monuments. We will do anything except imitate them. We cherish the last drop of their blood, but watch carefully over the first drop of our own." A. W. Tozer
In the meantime let us re-emphasize that the thing that matters is that no 'truth', 'doctrine', theory or teaching, whether it be good or doubtful, must ever be allowed to become either an end in itself, or a sidetrack. It must never be taken out of the essential context of God's full purpose. - Sparks
"The great lesson we have to learn, is to love and trust the Lord Jesus." John Newton
"Much talk about Reformed Theology, but what about a Transformed Ethic? Are we being conformed to Christ's image by what we say we believe?" - Paul Washer
whereby He upholds His saints, their graces, their comforts in life, without which they would run to ruin. - William Gurnall
A deep love and commitment to Jesus Christ brings an overflow of grace and power into a life. - Denny Kenaston
“If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence...? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!”
Keith Green
"O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!" Although a thousand particulars of "his judgments and of his ways are unsearchable" to us, and past our finding our; yet may we discern the general scheme running through time into eternity. "According to the counsel of his own will," the plan he had laid before the foundation of the world, he created the parent of all mankind in his own image; and he permitted all men to be made sinners, by the disobedience of that one man, that, by the obedience of one, all who receive the free gift may be infinitely holier and happier to all eternity. John Wesley
"He can do all things who prays well. All soul-winners have conquered on their knees. Wherever the secret of prevailing prayer is found, something supernatural will come to pass." - G. F. Oliver
"Um homem estuda, pois seu cérebro tem fome de conhecimento bíblico. Mas ele só ora quando sua alma tem fome de Deus." -Leonard Ravenhill
"Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master!" - Jim Elliot
“Tie a rope round my body, pull me out of bed, and lay me in ashes, that I may die with repentant prayers to an offended God. O! I in vain wish for that time I lost with you and others in vain recreations.”
Henry, Prince of Whales (last words before death)
"In the books Christians buy today you will find little mention of brokenness. We are not interested in a life that might require suffering, patience, purging or the discipline of the Lord. We want our blessings … and we want them now! So we look for the Christian brand of spiritualized self-help that is quick and painless." - Lee Grady
"You can have all of your doctrines right, yet still not have the presence of God." - Leonard Ravenhill
"Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves." - Randy Alcorn
"The vigour of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts."--George Mueller
"The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine; and at the right time, and in the right way, is the right fruit found on it. Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus."
(Hudson Taylor)
"Since tomorrow is none of ours, we must make the best improvement of today." Matthew Henry
He dies so he can live; forsakes in order to have; gives away so he can keep; sees the invisible; hears the inaudible; and knows that which passeth understanding." - A.W. Tozer
We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again.
G. Campbell Morgan
Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honored in being given the opportunity to participate in his good deeds. Remember how He asked for help in performing his miracles: Fill the water pots, stretch out your hand, distribute the loaves.
-Elizabeth Elliot
"The friends of God are always grieved when they see a church asleep and doing nothing for the salvation of sinners. Those who have other objectives in view may think things are going on very well. They are not grieved when they see professed people of God going after show and folly." - Charles Finney
Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image. -- A. W. Tozer
"Don't be afraid to sell out to Jesus." Brother Maurice Sklar at a concert on July 26 in Fredericksburg Virginia...
"In few countries is the failure of Christian humanism more apparent than in Thailand. There, after 150 years of missionaries showing marvelous social compassion, Christians still make up only two percent of the entire population. Self-sacrificing missionaries probably have done more to modernize the country than any other single force. Thailand owes to missionaries its widespread literacy, first printing press, first university, first hospital, first doctor, and almost every other benefit of education and science. In every area, including trade and diplomacy, Christian missionaries put the needs of the host nation first and helped usher in the 20th century. Meanwhile, millions have slipped into eternity without the Lord. They died more educated, better governed, and healthier—but they died without Christ and are bound for Hell."
- K.P. Yohannan
“If I had my way, I would declare a moratorium on public preaching of ‘the plan of salvation’ in America for one to two years. Then I would call on everyone who has use of the airways and the pulpits to preach the holiness of God, the righteousness of God and the law of God, until sinners would cry out, ‘What must we do to be saved?’ Then I would take them off in a corner and whisper the gospel to them. Such drastic action is needed because we have gospel-hardened a generation of sinners by telling them how to be saved before they have any understanding why they need to be saved.”
-Paris Reidhead, Getting Evangelicals Saved
There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all.
-C.H. Spurgeon
I was reading today from Ravenhill's quotes and I came across one that was so true, just another reason why I don't subscribe to that fairy tale. But that's another topic.
That spoke volumes.Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility. Leonard Ravenhill
The Apostles say: 'We believe we have salvation through the grace of Jesus Christ ....' If I can only teach a person that catechism I have made him a divinity scholar for all time.
-Count Zinzendorf
"Christianity is Christ plus nothing." - Leonard Ravenhill
"Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage pagans of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in Thy service, and to promote Thy kingdom." -Prayer of David Brainerd (missionary to the Native American Indians in the 1700's who died of tuberculosis in the field of duty after seeing tremendous revivals)
"Tearless hearts can never be the heralds of the Passion." -J.H. Jowett
The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
Soren Kierkegaard
When a person fell asleep when wesley was preaching he yelled out:
fire ! fire ! fire!
and the man stated "where? ? as he awoke"
"Hell fire! for those that sleep under the preaching of God's word!" -john welsey
"When the devil gets influence in a church, up go the candles and down goes preaching." Bishop Latimer
"Oh! The vast sums of money that are gotten by the trade they make of selling the Scriptures, and by their preaching." -George Fox
"Oh, if souls had courage enough to resign themselves to the work of purification, without having any weak and foolish pity on themselves, what a noble, rapid and happy progress would they make! -Madame Guyon
"I was taught that Bible stories were about a moral lesson - but now I realize that's not true. They are about ordinary people who encountered a living God and learned to walk with Him, and that I can too"
-a guy at home church tonight
" I hear people ask, 'why do bad things happen to good people?' but lately I've been thinking, 'why did the best thing happen to the worst people? that Jesus Christ died for even me."
“Tis God’s manner to make men sensible of their misery and unworthiness before He appears in His mercy and love to them.”
Jonathan Edwards
"The primary reason for this cooperation in prayer was to maintain, among the people of God, that necessity of prayer for the coming of Christ’s Kingdom, which Christ directed his followers to do. We are, unfortunately, too little inclined to pray because of our laziness and immaturity, or because of the distraction of our own worldly, private affairs. We have prayed at times, but without special seasons for prayer, we are, likely, to neglect it either partially or totally. But when we set aside certain times for prayer, resolving to fulfill this commission unless extraordinarily hindered, we are less likely to neglect it."
-Jay Rogers
"I am a creature of God, and He has an undoubted right to do with me as seemeth good in His sight. He has my heart in His hands, and when I am called to face danger, to pass through scenes of terror and distrust, He can inspire me with fortitude, and enable me to trust Him." Ann "Nancy" Judson
"We honor the old prophets, we honor the Tozers and Spurgeons but we don’t want to pay the price they paid, and they paid the price by being men who walked alone who lived with God and who loved his word."
-Paul Washer
"Never rule the Scripture by your mind; let the Scripture rule your mind."
- Smith Wigglesworth
"Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you Damned?" -Ravenhill
"Wickedness is always excused as anything but the moral degeneracy that has resulted from each one of us becoming the god of God." - Ravi Zacharias
"The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight."
(E. M. Bounds)
'This is the gospel.' It is not some extra, detached, advanced teaching. It is not an 'ology'; that is 'Christ-ology', 'Church-ology', 'Theology', etc.; it is the gospel! It is all gathered into and based upon resurrection, beginning with Christ and expanding and advancing until all believers are in a state of immortal glory for all eternity.~Sparks
"Love is real, love will bleed."
"When love is used like money it turns into our greed. When love is more like water, then everyone will drink."
- lyrics to a contemporary song
Psalm 22:14
Our mistake is that we want God to send revival on our terms. We want to get the power of God into our hands, to call it to us that it may work for us in promoting and furthering our kind of Christianity. We want still to be in charge, guiding the chariot through the religious sky in the direction we want it to go, shouting "Glory to God," but modestly accepting a share of the glory for ourselves in a nice inoffensive sort of way. We are calling on God to send fire on our altars, completely ignoring the fact that they are OUR altars and not God's....
A. W. Tozer
Difficulties, dangers, disease, death, or divisions don’t deter any but Chocolate Soldiers from executing God’s Will.
When someone says there is a lion in the way, the real Christian promptly replies, “That’s hardly enough inducement for me; I want a bear or two besides to make it worth my while to go.”
C.T. Studd
Oh, I know from our fundamentalist standpoint, this is nothing very much. I do not suppose there is one here who does not believe that Jesus was the Son of God, God manifest in the flesh. You all believe that as a bit of your faith; but what is the effect of it? What was the effect of that at the beginning? The witnessing, the representation, is not just attesting historical facts, nor doctrinal facts. When they went out as witnesses unto Him, it wasn’t just to say things which, while they were true, were only truths. They went out in the power of having seen, having had their eyes opened to the Lord Jesus. It was as though they had been men moving in the shadows during those years, groping, sometimes feeling an assurance, a certain amount of certainty, but then questionings, uncertainties coming in, shadows all the time. But at last the heavens were rent, the blaze broke through, and they saw. It was in the light of that they were constituted witnesses, representatives. It was in the light of that the Church was born. It was in the light of that the Church went on its way so effectively. The fact was that, wherever they came, it was the impact of God in Christ by their presence. Their presence stirred hell, because hell felt anew - God is here!
TA Sparks
You may be an ambassador to England or France,
You may like to gamble, you might like to dance,
You may be the heavyweight champion of the world,
You may be a socialite with a long string of pearls
But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You're gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.
You might be a rock 'n' roll addict prancing on the stage,
You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage,
You may be a business man or some high degree thief,
They may call you Doctor or they may call you Chief
But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You're gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.
You may be a state trooper, you might be a young Turk,
You may be the head of some big TV network,
You may be rich or poor, you may be blind or lame,
You may be living in another country under another name
But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You're gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.
You may be a construction worker working on a home,
You may be living in a mansion or you might live in a dome,
You might own guns and you might even own tanks,
You might be somebody's landlord, you might even own banks
But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You're gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.
You may be a preacher with your spiritual pride,
You may be a city councilman taking bribes on the side,
You may be workin' in a barbershop, you may know how to cut hair,
You may be somebody's mistress, may be somebody's heir
But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You're gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.
Might like to wear cotton, might like to wear silk,
Might like to drink whiskey, might like to drink milk,
You might like to eat caviar, you might like to eat bread,
You may be sleeping on the floor, sleeping in a king-sized bed
But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You're gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.
You may call me Terry, you may call me Timmy,
You may call me Bobby, you may call me Zimmy,
You may call me R.J., you may call me Ray,
You may call me anything but no matter what you say
You're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You're gonna have to serve somebody.
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.
Bob dylan
"Give me the love that leads the way, the faith that nothing can dismay. The hope no disappointments tire, the passion that will burn like fire. Let me not sink to be a clod: make me Thy fuel, Flame of God." Amy Carmichael
“Cheap grace is the enemy of the church. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth . . . an intellectual assent to that idea is held to be sufficient to secure remission of sins. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without repentance. . . grace without discipleship, grace without a cross..." D. Bonhoeffer
"His mercies are new every hour!" -Greg Gordon
"We are always cast upon God whether we know it or not. It is good to be weak, to have no footing except the grace of God." -Paul Washer
"The Spirit in the heart never contradicts the Spirit in the Word. Those desires that are contrary to the will of God do not come from the Spirit. The Spirit interceding in us evermore melts our wills into the will of God." Matthew Henry
I glory in that which at the present day is so much spoken against-sectarianism, for “sectarianism” is the jargon phrase which our enemies use for all firm religious belief. I find it applied to all sorts of Christians; no matter what views he may hold, if a man is earnest, he is quickly labeled a sectarian. Success to sectarianism, let it live and flourish, for the day it ceases then we can say farewell to the power of godliness.
Spurgeon
"Jesus settled our sin problem once and for all at Calvary. He doesn’t constantly harp on us, “This time you’ve crossed the line.” No, never! His attitude toward us is just the opposite. His Spirit is constantly wooing us, reminding us of the Father’s loving kindness even in the midst of our failures."
(David Wilkerson)
"How easily we equate our purpose/meaning/usefulness with things we physically do, and how little emphasis we place on things of the Spirit and acts of encouragement which require little or nothing of us physically." Joni Eareckson Tada
"Paul reckoned his great trial to be a gift. It is well put. He does not say, "there was inflicted on me a thorn in the flesh", but "there was given to me". This is holy reckoning. Child of God, among all the goods of your house, you have not one single article that is a better token of divine love to you than your daily cross." Charles Spurgeon (2 Cor 12:7)
"If a bird is flying for pleasure it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger, it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher." Corrie ten Boom
"If a bird is flying for pleasure it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger, it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher." Corrie ten Boom
"There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be."
— Fulton J. Sheen
"The goodness of God is most evident in His enduring mercies to His people. No record of deeds will stand on that Great Day, but Christ's." - Paul Washer
"No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once." -- Oswald J. Smith
"Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist." -- Oswald J. Smith
"The mission of the church is missions" -- Oswald J. Smith
"We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first." -- Oswald J. Smith
"Every preacher ought to be pleading with God: 'Give me, Lord, a new sense of the urgency of repentance, so that I can preach it with vigor and power, and the Holy Spirit can use it to change my congregation.'" -Richard Owen Roberts
"In times of extraordinary crisis ordinary measures will not suffice. The world lives in such a time of crisis. Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were “normal.” Nothing is normal while sin and lust and death roam the world, pouncing upon one another and till the whole population has been destroyed." - A.W. Tozer
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Sir Winston Churchill
"Oh God, come feelingly near!" - A.W. Tozer
"With all your heart, seek after those things that no one, even death, can take away from you. And above all these things, seek Jesus." -Paul Washer
"There are many who speak to men about God, but so few who speak to God about men." - Paul Washer
"But, oh, the grace of God! God through the plan of salvation in Jesus Christ will go beyond our merits, beyond that which we deserve. Even if our sins have been like a mountain, it is the grace of God that assures our forgiveness." -A.W. Tozer
"Faith's way of walking is to cast all care upon the Lord, and then to anticipate good results from the worst calamities."
[b]Morning and Evening,
March 8, Evening[i]by C.H. Spurgeon
"What a Christian sees as freedom, the world sees as bondage."
- David Wilkerson
“Preachers who have homes and cottages by the lake, a boat on that lake, and a big bank balance, still beg for more…These dear, doll-like preachers-boys no longer change their suits once a day, but two or three times a day. They preach the Jesus of the stables, but themselves live in swank hotels. For their own lusts they bleed the audience financially in the name of the One who had to borrow a penny to illustrate His sermon. They wear expensive Hollywood suits in honor of One who wore a peasant’s robe…How fearful will all this be in the judgment morning." - Leonard Ravenhill
"We stink more of the World than we stink of of Sack Cloth and
Ashes. A lot 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!" - Nick Cruz
"Paul never glamorized the gospel! It is not success, but sacrifice! It's not a glamorous gospel, but a bloody gospel, a gory gospel, and a sacrificial gospel! 5 minutes inside eternity and we will wish that we had sacrificed more!!! Wept more, bled more, grieved more, loved more, prayed more, given more!!!" - Leonard Ravenhill
Fanny Crosby is the greatest hymn writer that ever lived, writing over 9,000 songs! Before Fanny got saved, at 45 years old, she wrote many secular songs. But after she got saved -things were different...Here's what Fanny said about mixing Christian and worldly music:
"Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world."
- Fanny Crosby
"The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration." —M.R. DeHaan
"There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
"The greatest privilege God gives to you is the freedom to approach Him at any time. You are not only authorized to speak to Him; you are invited. You are not only permitted; you are expected. God waits for you to communicate with Him. You have instant, direct access to God. God loves mankind so much, and in a very special sense His children, that He has made Himself available to you at all times."
(Wesley L. Duewel)
"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
"Let no day pass by without going through the open door of prayer to God. Seek the Lord daily and He will answer you daily." - Basilea Schlink
"We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things." - Henry Ward Beecher
God will never send His fire down on anything other then a sacrifice. -dont know
"Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to Him of many." - Hudson Taylor
“The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.”
- A.W. Tozer
“If you are prepared to scold your congregation as Jesus did with the moneychangers, just remember that Jesus wept before he whipped. He wept as he approached Jerusalem saying, '[i]O Jerusalem, Jerusalem
- Leonard Ravenhill
anonymity wrote:
God will never send His fire down on anything other then a sacrifice.
Frank Bartleman maybe??:
"A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as a rule to desire innovation that might require sacrifice on their part. [b]And God's fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire!"
"The intelligent child of God must be driven to say, ' I must pray, pray, pray. I must put all my energy and all heart into prayer. Whatever else I do I must pray. '" R. A Torrey
"I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done." - Hudson Taylor
"Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men." David Brainerd
When my father preached this I trembled: “it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).
-John Piper
Satan knows that he can undermine the structure of the church by slyly
removing just one fundamental doctrine at a time. He frequently loosens
a large foundation gradually, chiseling it away bit by bit. That is why
tolerance for the sake of peace may be dangerous. One step by giving in
will lead to a next step, and will not God visit us with blindness if we
deliberately darken the truth He has graciously entrusted to us. How
shall we justify ourselves if we permit even a little of the truth to be
laid aside? Is that ours to do? When peace is injurious to the truth,
peace must give way. Peace with God is of greater value than peace with men.
Abraham Kuyper
"Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians" - Leonard Ravenhill
"Lost for the lack of the help I might give! Perising, perishing! Thou wast not willing; Master, forgive, and inspire us anew: Banish our worldliness, help us to ever Live with eternity's values in view." - Lucy Meyer
"Once it was the blessing, Now it is the Lord;
Once it was the feeling, Now it is His Word.
Once His gifts I wanted, Now the Giver own;
Once I sought for healing, Now Himself alone.
Once 'twas painful trying, Now 'tis perfect trust;
Once a half salvation, Now the uttermost.
Once 'twas ceaseless holding, Now He holds me fast;
Once 'twas constant drifting, Now my anchor's cast.
Once 'twas busy planning, Now 'tis trustful prayer;
Once 'twas anxious caring, Now He has the care.
Once 'twas what I wanted, Now what Jesus says;
Once 'twas constant asking, Now 'tis ceaseless praise.
Once it was my working, His it hence shall be;
Once I tried to use Him, Now He uses me.
Once the power I wanted, Now the Mighty One;
Once for self I labored, Now for Him alone.
Once I hoped in Jesus, Now I know He's mine;
Once my lamps were dying, Now they brightly shine.
Once for death I waited, Now His coming hail;
And my hopes are anchored, Safe within the veil."
— A.B. Simpson
"The only apostle who came out of Bible School, had to spend 3 years in the Arabian desert unlearning everything he learned there."
-Zac Poonen
“I have been sinking my bucket down into the well full often, but now my thirst after Jesus has become so insatiable, that I long to put the well itself to my lips, and drink right on.” Is this the feeling of thine heart now, believer? - Spurgeon
"I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in hand living wires with their fiery current, than speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies."
-A.B. Simpson
"The Holy Spirit does not seek to hurt us, but he does seek to make us Christlike, and this can be painful."- Francis Chan
Patrick
www.jonahproject.org
"I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in hand living wires with their fiery current, than speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies."
-A.B. Simpson
WOW! Powerful quote brother - Lord forgive me!
Patrick
www.jonahproject.org
"The inability to pray is punishment for refusal to pray" - P.T. Forsyth
"Is there any reason why the Church today cannot [b]everywhere equal
"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment."
A.W.Tozer, The Root of The Righteous
“Some people claim that we can be Christians without necessarily becoming disciples. I wonder, then, why the last thing Jesus told us was to go into all the world, making disciples of all nations, teaching them to OBEY ALL that He commanded? You’ll notice that He did not add, ‘But hey, if that’s too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians–you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything.’ Pray. Then read the Gospels for yourself. Put this book down and pick up your Bible. My prayer for you is that you will understand the Scriptures not as I see them, but as God intends them.” Francis Chan - Crazy Love, pg 87
Patrick
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"I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians."
– Samuel M. Zwemer
"It would be ten thousand times better never to have been born once than never to be born again." - John Piper
"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." C.S. Lewis
"To follow Christ first means that something else must be left behind."
- Carter Conlon
You Have to Love Jesus to Follow Him[i] by Carter Conlon
"Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell." - Thomas Watson
"The greatest need of our missionary forces are fresh outpourings of the Holy Spirit. The flesh profits nothing..." - Paul Washer
"We cannot love that which we do not know." - Thomas Watson
"stop looking at your bank statement and start learning from your Bible." anon
"Evangelical Christians gave a higher percentage of income to world missions during the Great Depression than they do now. Devastating." - Albert Mohler
"If we want to see the fire of God in our day we must have a baptism of fire in the pulpit. Will it be business as usual, or the unusual business of revival? " - Harold Vaughan
MY COMMITMENT AS A CHRISTIAN
Written by a young African pastor and tacked on the wall of his house.
I am a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have Holy Spirit Power. The dye is cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I’m a disciple of His. I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be still. My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, my future is secure. I’m finished and done with low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tamed visions, mundane talking, cheap living, and dwarfed goals. I no longer need pre-eminence, prosperity, position, promotions, plaudits, or popularity. I don’t have to be right. First, tops, recognized, praised, regarded, or rewarded. I now live by faith, lean on His presence, walk by patience, lift by prayer, and labor by power. My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is heaven, my road is narrow, my way rough, my companions few, my Guide reliable, my mission clear. I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, deluded or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of adversary, negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in the maze of mediocrity.
I want give up, shut up, let up, until I have stayed up, stored up, prayed up, paid up, and preached up for the cause of Christ. I am a disciple of Jesus. I must go till He comes, give till I drop, preach till all know , and work till He stops me. And when He comes for His own, He will have no problems recognizing me---my banner will be clear.
“If I can’t fly I’ll run. If I can’t run I’ll walk, I’ll crawl, but I WILL NOT QUIT!”
"What is the highest attainment of Christianity? That of complete union with God and total loss of self." - Watchman Nee
"If you won't die, you're already dead." - A.W. Tozer
"God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves." - Dwight L. Moody
"When men stand high their heads do not grow dizzy till they look down; when men look down upon those that are worse than themselves, or less holy than themselves, then their heads turn round; looking up would cure this disease. The most holy men, when once they have fixed their eyes awhile upon God's holiness, and then looked upon themselves, have been quite out of love with themselves." - William Gurnall
"And the point we made was that the law – there were commands under the Old Covenant – are going to become promises under the New Covenant. He fulfills them. When it used to say, “You shall not steal” as a command, it now says, “You shall not steal” as a promise. It used to say, “You shall not commit adultery” as a command. It says, “You shall not commit adultery” as a promise, because the Spirit of God living in us never steals, is never covetous, never is unfaithful. And the Spirit in us now fulfills the law and the commands become promises. And it’s important that we grasp that."
(Charles Price)
Hquest wrote:
"And the point we made was that the law – there were commands under the Old Covenant – are going to become promises under the New Covenant. He fulfills them. When it used to say, “You shall not steal” as a command, it now says, “You shall not steal” as a promise. It used to say, “You shall not commit adultery” as a command. It says, “You shall not commit adultery” as a promise, because the Spirit of God living in us never steals, is never covetous, never is unfaithful. And the Spirit in us now fulfills the law and the commands become promises. And it’s important that we grasp that."(Charles Price)
"Idolatry is any religious practice that gives mankind a measure of religious and emotional satisfaction, and that alleviates their conscience and requires nothing from them. Religion is the propensity of men to take the holiest things of God in all of their well-meaning intention, and so to transfigure them as to rob them of their cogency and power. Religion is nothing more than something that establishes a status quo and keeps mankind from the knowledge of the truth. You do not need God for religion, because religion has a measure of efficacy of bringing to mankind certain benevolences and a toning affect, and gives one emotional, ethical or moral inspirations that are good. But you do not need to have a God for that." - Art Katz
"Let us not be deceived by outward appearances. Satan “disguises himself as an angel of light” (2 Cor. 11:14). He keeps his deadliest diseases most sanitary. He clothes his captains in religious garments and houses his weapons in temples. Legalism is a more dangerous disease than alcoholism because it doesn't look like one. Alcoholism makes men fail; legalism helps them succeed in the world. Alcoholism makes men depend on the bottle; legalism makes them self-sufficient, depending on no one. Alcoholism destroys moral resolve; legalism gives it strength. Alcoholics don't feel welcome in the church; legalists love to hear their morality extolled in church." - John Piper
"King Saul is still living in the hearts of many Christians. They do not believe that everything from their self-life is as bad as God makes it out to be. They recognize the need for doing away with their outwards sins, but they insist that King Agag himself has some useful resources. And this is why the bleating of the old carnal nature continues to be heard in the background. Yes, these individuals can work hard through their own efforts to conform to high moral standards, as did the Pharisees, but there is still something within their inner nature that prevents Christ’s life of perfect love from being displayed." ~ Steve Bray
“Preachers who have homes and cottages by the lake, a boat on that lake, and a big bank balance, still beg for more…These dear, doll-like preachers-boys no longer change their suits once a day, but two or three times a day. They preach the Jesus of the stables, but themselves live in swank hotels. For their own lusts they bleed the audience financially in the name of the One who had to borrow a penny to illustrate His sermon. They wear expensive Hollywood suits in honor of One who wore a peasant’s robe…How fearful will all this be in the judgment morning?” - Leonard Ravenhill
"I think nothing is more confusing for new Christians in the day and age in which we live, and even unbelievers, than how believers fight in the local church, how they bicker, how they all seem not to be saying the same thing but saying different things altogether!" - David Legge
"Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their image on men’s souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
" - Blaise Pascal
The Christianized skeptic of today will soon give place to the Christianized infidel, whose disciples and successors in their turn will be infidels without any gloss of Christianity about them. - "The Coming Prince" - Sir Robert Anderson 1841-1918
"The most urgent need in the Christian Church today is true preaching; and as it is the greatest and most urgent need in the Church, it is obviously the greatest need of the world also." - Martyn Lloyd-Jones
"There is only one thing God wants of us, and that is our unconditional surrender." - Oswald Chamber
"I dare not fret any more than I dare curse and swear." - John Wesley
"The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him . . ." - Proverbs 10:24
"I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch the enemy had risen up and done me the greatest injury." - David Brainerd
Declaration of the Presbyterian Church in the US General Assembly in 1899: "There is no warrant in Scripture for the observance of Christmas and Easter as holy days, rather the contrary (see Gal. 4:9-11; Col. 2:16-21), and such observance is contrary to the principles of the Reformed Faith, conducive to... will worship, and not in harmony with the simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
"Unless we are holy, unless we are doing things right with God in holiness, forget about praying for revival! | Holiness is the opposite of sin. Not merely the absence of sin, not even the hatred of sin, but a total otherness from sin. It is an uncompromising purity. A terrifying dedication to what is right. | Holiness: The sheer, terrible perfection and majestic essence that is God." Yorrie Richards
"The way to Jesus is not by Cambridge and Oxford, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Socrates, Plato, Shakespeare or the poets—It is over an old-fashioned hill called Calvary." - Gypsy Smith
"My mind being now more open and enlarged I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees,laying aside all other books and praying over,if possible,every line and word.This proved meat indeed & drink indeed to my soul.I daily received fresh life, light & power from above. I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men." - George Whitefield
In few countries is the failure of Christian humanism more apparent than in Thailand. There, after 150 years of missionaries showing marvelous social compassion, Christians still make up only two percent of the entire population. Self-sacrificing missionaries probably have done more to modernize the country than any other single force. Thailand owes to missionaries its widespread literacy, first printing press, first university, first hospital, first doctor, and almost every other benefit of education and science. In every area, including trade and diplomacy, Christian missionaries put the needs of the host nation first and helped usher in the 20th century. Meanwhile, millions have slipped into eternity without the Lord. They died more educated, better governed, and healthier—but they died without Christ and are bound for Hell.
- K.P. Yohannan
"The Church Jesus called out of this world to be separated unto Himself has, to a great extent, forgotten her reason for existence. Her loss of balance is seen in the current absence of holiness, spiritual reality and concern for the lost. Substituted for the life she once knew are teaching and reaching for prosperity, pleasure, politics and social involvement.” - K.P. Yohannan
"Whoever you are and whatever you have to glory in - even if you seem to be the saintliest person on earth - know that there is no salvation from the flood of death but Christ. Hanging on to the outside of the ark by a false profession of faith will not save. Imagine how those in Noah's day ran for their lives, some to this hill and others to that high tree; but the waves pursued them until at last they were swept into the devouring flood. Such will your end be if you turn to any other way for help than Christ. Yet the ark waits for you, comes up close to your gate to take you in. Noah did not put forth his hand more willingly to take in the dove, than Christ does to receive those who fly to Him for refuge." - William Gurnall
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