Great Quotes 10

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"When our service for the Lord becomes so busy that we forget the Lord Himself, it is time to stop everything and ..seek Him." - K.P. Yohannan

"God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him." - Hudson Taylor

"The heart of a leader must be one that is continuously seeking the best for others while forgetting about himself." -K.P. Yohannan

"The simple sacrifices and sufferings we now endure will seem like only a moment when step into eternity." - K.P. Yohannan

"Oftentimes, waiting requires greater maturity than going. Our goal in all things must be obedience." - Paul Washer

"Meditate on this thought: the feeble state of your spiritual life is mainly due to the lack of time spent in daily fellowship with God. New life will dawn in many souls as a result of time spent in prayer alone with God." - Andrew Murray

"There is a false self-distrust which denies the worth of its own talent. It is not humility - it is petty pride. They would help in the work of Bible study if they were as gifted as Henry Drummond. They would strive to lead their associates into the Christian life if they had the gifts of Dwight L. Moody. But they are not ready to give what they have and do what they can." - Charles Reynolds Brown

"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

" He is not seeking a powerful people to represent HIM. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength." - Graham Cooke

"The Church in the West today presents too easy a target for Satan. We do not believe we are at war. We do not know where the battleground is located, and, in spite of our weapons, they are neither loaded nor aimed at the right target. We are unaware of how vulnerable we are. We are better fitted for a parade then a war." - Ed Silvosot

"Apart from God, nothing matters. We think that health matters, or knowledge, or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word, they would matter indeed. That word is eternity." ~A. W. Tozer

"We serve Christ:
As a slave, because we have to
As a servant, because we need to
As a son, because we want to."
Adrian Rogers

"Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste of Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes christian work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian turn away from it." J. Wilbur Chapman

"Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem, and are absolutely worthless." - Angela of Foligno

"Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'" - Vance Havner

"Many can bring the Scriptures to the mind, but the Lord alone can prepare the mind to receive the Scriptures. Our Lord Jesus differs from all other teachers; they reach the ear, but he instructs the heart; they deal with the outward letter, but he imparts an inward taste for the truth, by which we perceive its savour and spirit." - Spurgeon

"The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much." - John Chrysostom

“To you, sirs, who sin secretly, and yet make a profession: you break God’s covenants in the dark and wear a mask of goodness in the light – to you, sirs, who shut the doors and commit wickedness in secret – to you I shall speak this morning. O may God also be pleased to speak to you, and make you pray this prayer: ‘Cleanse thou me from secret faults.’ I shall endeavour to urge upon all pretenders present to give up, to renounce, to detest, to hate, to abhor all their secret sins. And, first, I shall endeavour to show the folly of secret sins, the misery of secret sins, the guilt of secret sins and the danger of secret sins. There is no hiding it from God. Thy sin is photographed in high heaven; the deed when it was done was photographed upon the sky, and there it shall remain, and thou shalt see thyself one day revealed to the gazing eyes of all men, a hypocrite, a pretender, who didst sin in fancied secret, observed in all thine acts by the all-seeing Jehovah.” (Spurgeon)

"Over 6.5 billion are on their way to hell and we are debating about doctrines!" - Greg Gordon

''Happy, if with my latest breath I may but gasp His name; Preach Him to all, and cry in death, 'Behold, behold the Lamb!' '' - Charles Wesley

"Blessed be the Lord for another day of mercy, even though I am now weary with its toils. Unto the preserver of men lift I my song of gratitude. The dove found no rest out of the ark, and therefore returned to it; and my soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things—God alone can give rest to my spirit." - Dan Biser

"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. "

Bob Dylan

"You can't offend a man that's filled with the Spirit." - Leonard Ravenhill

"It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to 'dishonor God and to flatter man.'"- C.H. Spurgeon

“The way of the world is self seeking and self-shielding. ‘Spare thyself’ is the sum of its philosophy. But the doctrine of Christ is not ‘save thyself’ but sacrifice thyself. There is no such thing as belonging to Christ and living to please self. Make no mistake on that point.” — A. W. Pink

"Prayer grasps eternity!" - Leonard Ravenhill

"The ministry of preaching is open to few;
the ministry of prayer - the highest ministry of
all human offices - is open to all."
- Leonard Ravenhill

"To abandon all, to strip one's self of all, in order to seek and follow Jesus Christ naked to Bethlehem where He was born, naked to the hall where He was scourged, and naked to Calvary where He died on the cross, is so great a mystery that neither the thing nor the knowledge of it, is given to any but through faith in the Son of God." - John Wesley

"I have but one passion: It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ." - Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

"If you fear God, you need fear nothing else." - Zac Poonen

"Pray for me, that I may be made holier and wiser--less like myself, and more like my heavenly Master; that I may not regard my life, if so be I may finish my course with joy. This day eleven years ago, I lost my loved and loving brother, and began to seek a Brother who cannot die." Robert Murray M'Cheyne

"The wars fought in this generation have not been won by conventional means; but unconventional. The conventional church will not prevail in her plight against darkness. Only a red-hot unconventional Holy Ghost empowered church will suffice." Derek Lane Melton

"The early church was acclimated to the upper room; today's cultural church is acclimated to the supper room. Our church dinners are packed, our prayer rooms are empty, but we want apostolic power. Apostolic power follows apostolic succession." - Derek Melton

“There will be no great Revival until the people of God are deeply
convicted of their need of holiness.”
-MAJOR ALLISTAIRE SMITH (Salvation Army).

"Commitment, Passion, and Perseverance, are three cardinal virtues that seem to be absent in the modern church." - Derek Melton

"The main trouble with the Christian Church today is that she is too much like a clinic, too much like a hospital. Look at the great campaign, look at it objectively, look at it from God's standpoint. Forget yourself and your temporary troubles and ills for the moment; fight in the army. You must realize that we are in a barracks, and that we are involved in a mighty campaign." - Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"Some of you pastors muzzle your people with ignorance, preaching Aristotle, Plato, and the rest instead of Christ - I say unto you, that on judgment day you will find you have sinned against God, by luring your listeners away from the truth." - John Bunyan

"I will lead a life of integrity in my own home" Ps101:2 NLT God never gives public annointing without private integrity." - Rick Warren

"Christian, stop looking for the fierce wolves and begin looking for the sly little foxes. It is not the threats from without that destroy us, but the threats from within; the maladies of the heart." - Derek Melton

"The most Holy men are always the most lowly men. The coat of humility should always be worn upon the back of Christianity." - Dyer

'In the days of the Reformation. Christendom began to accept, as a general rule, the insufficiency of man's righteousness; but, methinks it did not go far enough! When you begin to talk about the insufficiency of man's wisdom, that is another story. They refused to recognize that; but claimed that by concentration of thought and application of mind they could formulate the doctrines and dogmas of the Church. No wonder the Church is so impotent! No wonder we have such an evident lack of power, for we have not been willing in all of our ways to acknowledge Him; but have been wont to lean hard upon our own understanding! The doorway through which the Church went to the Philadelphia era was the door of "the acknowledgment of the righteousness of Jesus Christ." People were willing to put all of their hope of salvation and their faith in God on the atoning work of Jesus on Calvary's Cross; but when that same Church came to the place where it was called upon to surrender its own wisdom and look to the Lord for the wisdom which comes from above, it was not willing to do so, and went through the doorway which led from the age of Philadelphia to the Laodicean darkness. It largely repudiated the Holy Spirit, except as a doctrine, and insisted upon putting the ministry of the Holy Ghost into creed instead of into experience." - Charles S. Price

"The Bible gives us a theology which is more human than Calvinism, and more divine than Arminianism, and more Christian than either of them". - Dr. David J. Hesselgrave

"Rise up, O men of God! Have done with lesser things. Give heart and mind and soul and strength To serve the King of kings. Rise up, O men of God! The church for you doth wait, Her strength unequal to her task; Rise up and make her great! Lift high the cross of Christ! Tread where His feet have trod. As brothers of the Son of Man, Rise up, O men of God!" - William P. Merrill

"Woe to the nation that discards its unborn as refuse and exalts animal life above human." - Derek Melton

"If you watch TV more then you read your bible then you deserve to be deceived by today's false teachers." - Zac Poonen

"You can't build an new covenant church if you don't tremble at every word of God." - Zac Poonen

"The reason you love theology so much is you're probably backslidden. Who is doing the work? Start obeying what you already know!" - Greg Gordon

"An army of preachers who are free from the love of money is what God is looking for in our last days." - Greg Gordon

"None but Christ! None but Christ!" said Lambert the martyr, lifting up his hands and his flaming fingers!

"The very truth that makes men free may be and often is fashioned into chains to keep them in bondage. Never forget that there is no pride so insidious and yet so pwoerful as the pride of orthodoxy." -A.W. Tozer

"One of the biggest problems I have is see how big the sins of others is and thinking mine so small! The hypocrite is hiding in my heart and casting stones at others. What a wretch." - Kevin Turner

"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

"...Absalom might boast of the hair of his head, but that hanged him; so these may boast of the knowledge of their head, but it will destroy them. Many of the old world knew there was an ark, but were drowned, because they did not get into the ark; knowledge which is not applying, will but light a man to hell." - Watson

"It is not the Christian's duty to count one another's blemishes, but to stand in awe of Christ's perfections." - Derek Melton

"Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master." -Jim Elliot

"The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God." - Robert M. McCheyne

"If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great." — John Piper

Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living – that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo. C.H. Spurgeon

"We have to learn to trust. Worry is a sin. It is probably as great a sin as dishonesty or profanity or bad temper. Yet a good many Christian people worry--and one of the most important lessons in Christ's school, is to learn not to worry." - James Malachi Jennings

"When the devil shows the blackness of their sins, Christ shows the redness of His wounds." - Thomas Watson

"Set before each Christian are two crowns. One is the crown of man's esteem and applaud, the other is man's despite and rejection for God's glory. One crown forfeits the other. Which will we bear?" - Derek Melton

"Tolerence (regarding sin) is the arch-enemy of spiritual maturity and growth, but it seems to be the creed of the modern church." - Derek Melton

"If you can preach on hell, and then shake hands with people at the door, nodding and smiling, you haven’t preached hell, you’ve presented a oratorical performance." - Charles Finney

"This period we are in is just a dressing room for eternity, that's all it is!" - Leonard Ravenhill

"As a backslider with all thy backslidings about thee, Return, return, return! Jesus is waiting for thee! He will stretch forth his hand and “pull thee in”—in to himself, thy heart’s true home." - Dan Biser

"The hour has struck, God has opened the doors to the nations for the Gospel, but the American church is asleep, dreaming the American dream." - Derek Melton

"Work-righteous people do great and heavy work, and yet have nothing from it except in time mere worry and labour and never a cheerful conscience, and in eternity condemnation and the torments of hell." - Martin Luther

"Christian, shouldn't your battle cry be heralded in foreign lands instead of your protected camps?" - Derek Melton

God assumes full responsibility for enabling us to carry out the work He assigns. He will never leave us to accomplish a task by mere human ability.
— Charles Stanley

"The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes." - Thomas Watson

"The blood of the martyrs is not the seed of the church, but the declaration of it." - Derek Melton

"Come, then, incurable to Chrst. Leprosy was always regarded as incurabel. The leper came to Jesus, worshipping, said, 'Lord if thou wilth thou canst make me clean'. Jesus said, "I will, be thou clean.' And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Some of you feel that your heart is desperatley wicked; You are a leper- incurable; Jesus is able and willing to make you clean." - Robert Murray McCheyne

"Arise, my soul, arise; shake off thy guilty fears; The bleeding sacrifice in my behalf appears: Before the throne my surety stands, Before the throne my surety stands, My name is written on His hands." -Charles Wesley

"If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell." -Leonard Ravenhill

"What are you going to do when you get to eternity, if you can't stick in an hour with God down here? In God's name, what are you going to do in a million year s in God's presence? Expect some reports from earth about football or something?"

Mensch: bedenk die Ewigkeit, und spotte nicht der Gnadenzeit, denn das Gericht ist nicht mehr weit. - German

Man: think on eternity, and do not mock the time of grace, for judgment is not far off.

"TWELFTH ARTICLE ... always watch and wait for the Lord
that we may be worthy to enter with Him when He comes, and
to escape or flee from the evil that will come to the world. " - The Schleitheim
Confession

"Plant me in fertile soul Lord; harvest 100 fold for your glory. Oh plant me deep in the blackness and fruit will shine in the light." - Joshua Friedrick

"The sun, I know, will shine again; but while the gloom is permitted to endure, something is gained, both of comfort and safety, by remaining tranquil." - Count Zinzendorf

"Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin." "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan

"Religious idealisms that are culturally relevant can never be New Testament in nature; the true Gospel is an assault against our culture, not a friend of it." - Derek Melton

"If we do not deal with bitterness head on, it will destroy us from the inside out." - K.P. Yohannan

"There is so much joy in the simplicity of following Christ, which cannot be found in anything else." - K.P. Yohannan

"Leaders must fear the Lord, lead with courage and serve in humility." - K.P. Yohannan

"Missions is not just a program but a command by God for every believer to live their life with eternity in view." - K.P. Yohannan

"The professing church may have lost its masculine vigour; the professors of this day may be but effeminate dwarfs, the offspring of glorious fathers; but the true church, the elect out of the professing church, the remnant whom God hath chosen, are as much in love with Jesus as his saints of yore, and are as ready to suffer and to die." - C.H. Spurgeon

"God is not going to preserve sermons in heaven, He is going to preserve the prayers of the Saints in heaven." - Kevin Turner

"I have been thinking this morning about obedience and disobedience in the "small things". How easy we forget the majors for the minors." - Paul Washer

"I now understand more of our calling. The weakest instruments are chosen to do the greatest works so that the glory might go to God." - Paul Washer

"Raising godly children in a culture that has been baptized in sin is an exhaustive campaign that few Christian parents are willing to launch." - Derek Melton

"Ah! it is a deep sorrow when natural and spiritual grief come together. Affliction is easily borne if we have the smile of Jehovah's countenance. Why dry your tears? Why stop mouring? 'The Master is come' Such is the presence of the Lord Jesus to mourners still. Mourners should spread their sorrows at the feet of Christ." - Robert Murray McCheyne

"If no one is accusing you of being too legalistic, then you probably aren't living a holy life. If no one is accusing you of being a 'bleeding heart', then you probably aren't loving enough. If no one is accusing you of being too dogmatic, then you probably aren't standing for the truth. If no one is accusing you or criticizing you...you probably aren't doing anything significant." - Israel Wayne

"Some think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all." - D.L.Moody

“I am greatly persuaded that the generality of preachers talk of an unknown, unfelt Christ. And the reason why congregations have been so dead is because dead men preach to them.” - George Whitefield

"If it is life eternal to know Christ, then it is eternal damnation to be ignorant of Christ." - Flavel

"Our Christianity will never conquer heathen lands until it conquers our heathen hearts." - Derek Melton

"I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them." - David Brainerd

"Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose." - David Brainerd

"The Christian most fearful of being judged by other Christians most often finds the true accuser to be his own conscience." - Derek Melton

"The catalyst of deception is biblical illiteracy." - Derek Melton

"We modern evangelicals need to learn the truths of the sovereignty of God and the lordship of Christ. God will not play along with Adam; Christ will not be used by any of Adam's selfish brood. We had better learn these things fast if this generation of young Christians is to be spared the supreme tragedy of following a Christ who is merely a Christ of convenience and not the true Lord of glory after all." - A.W. Tozer

"Christian, you are called to be a pilgrim in this present world; not a participant. Dual citizenship is forbidden." - Derek Melton

"God’s desire is that through our failure we will allow Him to make us into useful vessels that far surpass the beauty we had before." - KP Yohannan

"The best leaders are those who lead with their life not power or position." - K.P. Yohannan

"God has given us this life as a gift to live for His glory." - K.P. Yohannan

"God does not look for the majority to accomplish His will, but the few that will follow whole heartily." - K.P. Yohannan

"The period in which we now live may well go down in history as the Eortic Age. sex love has been elevated into a cult. Eros has more worshippers among civilized men today than any other god. For millions, the erotic has completely displaced the spiritual! The motion picture and tv enable a whole population to feast their eyes on sensuous women and amorous young men locked in passtionate embrace" - A.W. Tozer

"If evangelical Christianity is to stay alive she must repudiate the weaklings who dare not speak out, and she must seek in prayer and much humility the coming again of men of the stuff prophets and martyrs are made of!" - A.W. Tozer

"The Devil's great purpose is to stop the Revival power of God, and every Revival that has been given of God to awaken His people, has ceased after a time, more or less short, because of (1) the Church's ignorance of the laws of the spirit for co-working with God; and (2) the insidious creeping on of the powers of darkness, unrecognized, and yielded to by the people of God through ignorance." - Jesse Penn-Lewis

When our service for the Lord becomes so busy that we forget the Lord Himself, it is time to stop everything and ..seek Him." - K.P. Yohannan

A pastor friend of my dad said this once, and it really challenged me personally.

"Sin not dealt with conceived will become sin dealt with committed." -Mark Bratrud

"Learn that afflicting time is trying time. Affliction is like the furnace, it discovers the dross as well as the gold. Learn to guard against unbelief. Guard against presuption, amking a Bible promise for yourself, and leaning upon a word God has never spoken. Guard against prescribing your way to Christ and limiting Him in His dealing. Guard against unbelief, believing only par of God's Word." - Robert Murray McCheyne

"Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure." - D. L. Moody

"For the Love of God is broader, Than the measure of man's mind; And the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind. But we make His love too narrow, By false limits of our own. And we magnify its strictness, with a zeal He will not own." - Frederick W. Faber

"A church ought to be seeker friendly, but the church ought to recognize there’s only one seeker, His name is God, and if you want to be friendly to someone, if you want to accommodate someone, accommodate Him and his Glory." - Paul Washer

"So let us thank God from our hearts for trials that are not removed, though brought before Him in believing prayer and praise Him for answers that seem long in coming, knowing the delay is needed to make us ready to receive them." -Hudson Taylor

"I want to recommend you to my Master. I have had many ways of pleasure in my time, and have tasted most of the delights this world can give; but I can tell you that these pleasures are as nothing compared with my present joy. I had formerly as much love for cricket as any man could have; but when the Lord Jesus came into my heart I found that I had something infinitely better. My heart was no longer set on the game: I wanted to win souls, to serve and please Him." - C.T. Studd

"A shallow and worldly leadership would modify the cross to please entertainment-mad saintlings who will have their fun even within the very sanctuary; but to do so is to court spiritual disaster and risk the anger of the Lamb turned Lion." - A.W. Tozer

"When we understand a truth and are excited about it, we are still on a sandy foundation. Only when we obey that truth will we build on rock." - Zac Poonen

"We have not been ransomed by futile and worldly things like gold and silver, and therefore we should not live for them. But we have been ransomed by the blood of a spotless Lamb, even the Son of God. Therefore, love HIM, serve HIM, and live for HIM with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength!" -Paul Washer

"Have we become too strong to of use to God? Here in the West, the circumstances of our lives lead us to independence and develope in us a spirit of self-sufficiency. However, the strength of God always comes in proportion to our weakness, and His help always comes to the degree that we recognize our need. As creatures, created and sustained by God, we cannot breathe apart from His life, and cannot turn from the least of our sins apart from His grace. How then can we think that we can 'do something for God'? Has our humanistic and self sufficient culture crept into the Church and decieved us? The Scriptures tell us that God has no need, and therefore is not served by human hands. Thus, we are not called to do 'great things' for God, but rather we have been granted the priviledge of being instruments of His grace, however, this is only to the degree that we acknowledge our absolute weakness and total inability!" -Paul Washer

"To burn a heretic is not to defend a doctrine, but
to kill a man." - J.D. King

"When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead them to hell." - Alistair Begg

"A saving relationship with Christ always produces fruit." - A.B. Simpson

"God has to look past millions and millions of Christians to find one who weeps for souls." -Keith Daniel

"Satan, Sin and Self are the three great enemies of the Christian. But only one of them you can crucify." - Greg Gordon

"You want to know who the enemies of the Lord are? Preach truth and watch who is the first to fight you. Preach a standard!" - Keith Daniel

"At first the revival is true and pure, but after a few weeks watch for counterfeits" - John Wesley.

"Paul 'reasoned', 'explaining', 'proving','proclaim', and 'preaching' God's word." Acts 17:2,3,17and 18 "Paul didn't tell any jokes." - Daniel Mac

"Israel had to choose whether they would serve Jehovah or Baal. We have to choose whether we will love Christ or Money. We cannot love both." - Zac Poonen

"Christian Movies. Let's get completely rid of the wretched things! Then we might get so bored we would actually pray." - Greg Gordon

‎"The more perfect we are, the more gentle and
quiet we become toward the defects of others." - Fenelon

‎"A little lie is like a little pregnancy-it doesn't take long before everyone knows." -C.S Lewis

"Jesus didn't die so he could follow you." - Francis Chan

“Are you following the teachings of Christ & the bible, OR are you following Christ?” - K.P. Yohannan

"I am a Bible bigot. I follow it in all things both great and small." - John Wesley

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"You will never experience the fullness of joy you were created to know until Jesus Christ has first place in every area." - James MacDonald

"Missions cannot be an afterthought, but rather a deliberate sought after passion for God to burden our hearts with." - K.P. Yohannan

"It is an open question whether or not the evangelical movement has sinned too long and departed too far from God to return again to spiritual sanity. Will they? Or are they too well satisfied with religious frolic and froth even to recognize their sad departure from the New Testament faith?" - A.W. Tozer

‎"Modern Christendom needs its piety transferred from its sleeves down to its hands and feet." - Derek Melton

‎"The gift of preaching is one of the greatest demonstrations of grace. Speaking God's Word can never be merited." - Derek Melton

‎"If Martin Luther were alive, he'd be writing another 95 Theses to condemn the church that is named after him." - Israel Wayne

"Time, how short—eternity, how long! Death, how brief—immortality, how endless!" - Charles Spurgeon

" This hilarity of our modern churches is not the joy of the Holy Ghost. In most cases it is the song of Babylon. In other words, it is an attempt of the enemy to lull the saints to sleep and to cause them to forget their heritage in the Spirit." - George Warnock

"The life you are living now will soon be over...what are you doing for Christ right now? That alone will be of any lasting good in eternity.If you were to die right now, could you honestly say that the lamp of your light burned out for Christ? Or did it burn out for some lesser cause than the cause of the High King of Heaven? What is your life? It is but a vapor that will soon be gone. Live for Jesus Christ ALONE!" - Anonymous

"Pastors & congregations must look beyond their own selfish preservation & recklessly abandon themselves to the Savior. They must live God's Word no matter the personal cost by walking in a childlike faith that simply trusts in His great & precious promises. The tremendous need of the hour is to tear down every thought, word and deed that destroys the unity of the saints and hinders the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It's time we thwart the devil's plans and reap havoc on his kingdom instead." - Glenn Meldrum

"It is dangerous and unwise to explain away New Testament commands using the guise of cultural relativity. Cultural relativity is a very dubious principle upon which to operate. It can, in fact, be used to dismiss any or every part of the NT." - Gene Long

"Set not your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. He changes not! Live nearer to Christ than to any person on this earth; so that when they are taken, you may have Him to love and lean upon." - Robert McCheyne

‎"Oh you silent Christians! Who neither by your tongue nor your pen nor by anyone way ever tell about Christ. I do know what to make of you! I wonder the seats you sit on push you of and speak instead of you. And the stones of the street cry out against you as you pass over them. Why? What can you made of to be saved to be going down to hell and not want others to be saved also too?" - C.H. Spurgeon

"Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can." - J.C. Ryle

‎"I will have the Spirit." - Evan Roberts Journal

‎"When the call of God leads you into the lion's den, or into the bottom of an empty well, or into martyrdom, you are living your best life now. Only His choicest of servants are entrusted with such weighty and glorious callings." - Derek Melton

"The secret to obtaining God's greatest gifts is not strength, but surrender. Salvation, sanctification, the Spirit-filled life - these are not earned, but embraced; not accomplished, but accepted. Let us therefore strive - to enter into rest." - Anonymous

"I often pray, Lord, make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be made." - Robert McCheyne

"That from the rising to the setting of the sun God's Name might be great among the nations" (Mal 1:11). Let this be our heart beat! - Paul Washer

"Strengthen in prayer this morning. We are frail apart from the Spirit, and unwise apart from the Word. We must avail ourselves of both." - Paul Washer

"I continued to preach on Luke 18:1-8. We must learn to push the limits of prayer. We must not faint. Apart from prayer, we can do nothing." - Paul Washer

"Much of this world’s goods does usually cause great distraction, great vexation, and great condemnation at last to the possessors of them. If God give them in his wrath, and does not sanctify them in his love, they will at last be witnesses against a man, and millstones forever to sink him in that day when God shall call men to an account, not for the use, but for the abuse of mercy." - Thomas Brooks

"A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel. His conversation should be such that all who are about him should clearly perceive whose he is, and whom he serves; and should see the image of Jesus reflected in his daily actions." - C.H. Spurgeon

"Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him." - A.W. Tozer

"Strengthen in prayer this morning. We are frail apart from the Spirit, and unwise apart from the Word. We must avail ourselves of both." - Paul Washer

"Many preachers have turned to preaching morality in place of the Gospel. Most can handle this preaching quite well as a small change here and there is palatable and The "I" of their lives still gets the throne. Gospel preaching does not merely pluck leaves from the tree of evil rather it lays an axe to the root and the 'I' must be dethroned. Come and die before you come and dine." - Kevin Turner

"It is the look that saves but the gaze that sanctifies." - Unknown

"Look around you. The world lying in wickedness is against you. 'I send you forth as sheep in th emidst of wolves.' O, look down to hell; there are crafty devils-mighty spirits of evil, all, all against you. How then, should we hope such things from? Ah! God is faithful, who also will do it." - Robert Murray McCheyne

"If we truly desire holiness, we must in the Word and in prayer. Praying in the darkness of early morning sheds great light on our hearts." - Paul Washer

‎"Between the Great Commission and the American Dream is fixed a great chasm; our hearts will be loyal to one or the other, but never both." - Derek Melton

"Asking in Christ's name includes an acknowledgment of our own unworthiness to receive any favour from God, a complacency in the method God has taken of keeping up a correspondence with us by his Son, and an entire dependence upon Christ as the Lord our Righteousness." - Matthew Henry

"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess." - Martin Luther

"I am convinced that one of the most sublime messages of the New Testament is that at Bethlehem, the Most High, became the Most Nigh." - Kevin Turner

‎"Now spiritual life consists primarily in charity, and he who does not have charity, he is regarded as spiritually nothing." - St. Thomas Aquinas, On the Perfection of the Spiritual Life (Ch. 1)

If we are supposed to be reading the Greek, then how come all of Greece isn't saved.

Milt Green, What Is True Salvation

"Measure you life by loss, not by gain! Not by the wine drunk but the wine poured forth; for He who suffers the most has the most to give." - Leonard Ravenhill

"Satan rules all men that are in his kingdom. Some he rules through lust. Some he rules through covetousness. Some he rules through appetite. Some he rules by their temper, but he rules them. And none will ever seek to be delivered until they get their eyes open and see that they have been taken captive." - D.L. Moody

We need to ask ourselves, what good is the biblically correct way of doing church if we never learned to allow the Lord to deal with us and change our inner being into His likeness? What is the church anyway, is it the result of man’s zeal and effort to do it correctly? Or is it Christ lived out and shared among believers?

Oliver Peng

"The Blood will not cover what it was meant to uncover." -Duncan Cambell

after the rain come the rainbow

"If I lead somebody to Christ on the street, which church should I send him to?" (Sending someone to church today is) like taking a newborn baby and putting it in a refrigerator. I want a place that vibrates with God, vibrates with eternity. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

"some work to live, we live to work." - Count Zinzdendorf

Lord, make me little and unknown; prized for Thee, and Thee alone.

Beware of renegades! Those without accountability or submissive to authority! Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment (Prvbs 18:1)

‎"I discovered an astonishing truth: God's attracted to weakness. He can't resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need Him. Our weakness, in fact, makes room for His power" - Jim Cymbala

"Revival is not when the top blows off, but when the bottom falls out. It is not about some ecstatic utterance but rather ecstasy in a person, the Lord Jesus Himself." - Kevin Turner

"We must live our lives like tomorrow is our last day - live each day for the glory of God." - K.P. Yohannan

Too many of today’s preachers rely on
their eloquence and presentation to weave an airtight sermon complete
with PowerPoint, dramatization, research, and high-sounding catchy
phrases designed to impress their audience. Nothing is left to the Holy
Spirit who alone can invigorate and captivate the hearts of men.

To a certain extent, Christians in general have also embarked upon this
psyche in employing high-sounding and spiritually garnished phrases in
talking to each other. Folks often want to be viewed as being spiritual.
Worse yet, those in leadership positions encourage this type of behavior to
the detriment of the proper growth of younger believers.

Oliver Peng

"Master, forgive, and inspire us anew;
Banish our worldliness, help us to ever
Live with eternity’s values in view." - Lucy Meyer

"And now, adorable Spirit, proceeding from the Father and the Son, descend upon all the Churches, renew the Pentecost in this our age, and baptize thy people generally--O baptize them yet again with tongues of fire! Crown this nineteenth century with a revival of "pure and undefiled religion" greater than that of the last century, greater than that of the first, greater than any "demonstration of the Spirit" ever yet vouchsafed to men!" - William Arthur

"The simplicity of these first generation believers is incredible. Their love for Jesus is so powerful. Their simple faith is challenging." - K.P. Yohannan

And the secret is simply this: Christ in you! ... So, naturally, we proclaim Christ! We warn everyone we meet, and we teach everyone we can, all that we know about Him, so that if possible, we may bring everyone up to full maturity in Christ. - Col. 1:27,28 (Phillips)

‎"One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God." - Andrew Bonar

"One mark of proud people is that they find it difficult to express appreciation for others, even when they see something really good in them." - Zac Poonen

"I counted dollars, while God counted crosses; I counted gains, while God counted losses. I counted my worth, my things gained in store; and He sized me up by the scars that I bore. I counted honors and sought degrees, He counted the hours I spent on my knees. I never knew until one day by the grave how vain are the things that we spend life to save." -Author Unknown

"Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!" - C.H. Spurgeon

"If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness, it is the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world." - C.H. Spurgeon

"If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for." - C.H. Spurgeon

Soren Kierkegaard observed: "O Luther, you had 95 theses... The matter is far more terrible: there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform."

"Body life is where a local group of people chooses to walk together for a bit of the journey by cultivating close friendships and learning how to listen to God together."

Wayne Jacobson

"We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with the irresponsible, amusement-mad paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of Christ and which is being spread all over the world by unspiritual men employing unscriptural methods to achieve their ends."
A.W. Tozer

"Worshipers in the temple fulfilled religious self-interests while the nations went to hell (Mk.11). Are we doing the same?" - David Platt