Great Quotes 11

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‎"Many proud people have a very strong perception of themselves. They need a loving dose of reality. They need to hear, "What do you have that God
did not give you?" (1 Corinthians 4:7)." - Stuart Scott

"Does it cost you anything to say you follow Jesus? Does your reputation suffer, your life in danger or you plans disrupted because Jesus comes first over fame, fortune and your personal honor." - Kevin Turner

"People may spurn our appeals, reject our messages, oppose our arguments, despise our persons; but they are helpless against our prayers." - Thomas Lindberg.

The Reformation was undoubtedly the work of the Epistle to the Romans, as well as the epistle to the Galatians; and the probability is that every great spiritual revival in the church will be associated as effect and cause with a deeper understanding of these books.

Richard McGough
http://www.biblewheel.com/Wheel/Cloudofwitnesses.asp

"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels." - Augustine

"Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?"

"A sinning man stops praying, a praying man stops sinning."

"My main ambition in life is to be on the devil's most wanted list."

- Leonard Ravenhill.

Source: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Ravenhill
God bless,
Joel >.

"So much of popular Christianity in the West is delightful to the flesh. To walk with God in hiddenness and simplicity is rarely considered." - Paul Washer

"That God might give His people the grace to live a life of disinterest in self, disdain for the world, and a view toward eternity." - Paul Washer

from: http://twitter.com/paulwasher

"Many Christians estimate difficulty in the light of their own resources, and thus they attempt very little and they always fail. All giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence to be with them." - Hudson Taylor

‎"Jesus came not only to save me from my sin and hell, but during my life in
this pilgrimage to set me from my own self-centeredness" - K.P. Yohannan

‎"The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents." - Leonard Ravenhill

"Morality is a neat cover for foul venom, but it does not alter the fact that the heart is vile, and the man himself is under damnation. Men will be damned with good works as well as without them, if they make them their confidence (rather than Jesus Christ)". - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

‎"This life is a dressing room for eternity. That's all it is."
-Leonard Ravenhill

Make a declaration of full-out war against the sinful nature and its enticements, saying, "Wherever I find you, I'll kill you." -Renouncer

"One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed." - Leonard Ravenhill.

“We are too swept up in the culture of our day, finding the entertainment, the methods, the psychology, and the wisdom of our age more enlightened and engrossing than the crude insistence on radical purging and cleansing. We have turned away from the priestly thing of sacrfice and blood. It is another way of saying that we have turned away from ‘the offense of the Cross.’ “Art Katz

"You were created to live a Godward life, so everything you do has verticality, either in acts of submission or rebellion to God's authority." - Paul Tripp

Only the believers obey
Only the obedient belief
(Bonhoeffer - discipleship)

"If you are not broken you are a danger in ministry. You will break others."

"Will you lay down your own agenda for the sake of the many who are waiting to hear the name of Christ?" - K.P. Yohannan

"Preaching the gospel didn't make Peter or Paul materially rich. If it has made you rich, you must be preaching another gospel and another Jesus." - Zac Poonen

"False doctrine and worldliness always go hand in hand. Worldliness usually leads the way. The early modernists did not aim at destroying biblical Christianity. They simply tried to make Christianity palatable to an unbelieving world. It cannot be done. When Christianity becomes acceptable to unregenerate people--it has ceased to be Christianity!" - Kevin Turner

"Stop looking for the next thrill and living for "fun times". "Joy unspeakable and full of glory" is to be had in Jesus. Don't be content playing with trifles when eternal glories are offered to you." - Victor Wiebe

"Those inspiring for the ministry - give yourselves to the study of God's word and prayer, learn to walk by faith... All else will follow." - Paul Washer

"Learn to pray. Study the prayers of Scripture. Study the books and biographies of men of prayer. Above all, learn to pray by praying." - Paul Washer

"Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow." - Theodore Epp

"We moan with stress and self-pity when Paul would have jumped for joy and sang out loud!" - Will Graham

"I think of the love of God as a great river, pouring through us even as the waters pour through our ravine at floodtime. Nothing can keep this love from pouring through us, except of course our own blocking of the river.

Do you sometimes feel that you have got to the end of your love for someone who refuses and repulses you? Such a thought is folly, for one cannot come to the end of what one has not got. We have no store of love at all. We are not jugs, we are riverbeds."

~Amy Charmichael

"We all have the same amount of time every week - 168 hours. The only difference is what you do with it." - J.D. King

David was a godly man
and a gifted leader,
but the best of men
are but men at their best.

~Warren Wiersbe

"Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not two Christ's - an easy going one for easy going Christians, and a suffering one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are we willing to follow His lead?" - Hudson Taylor

"No matter how much good you do, you will destroy it all by allowing something in your life to remain not dealt with by the Cross." - Santosh Poonen

"The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself, and less from others. Go thou and do likewise!" - John Wesley

"I value all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity." - John Wesley

‎"If you find any extra time today, tarry in the word of God and prayer. No one has ever regreted spending too much time in these devotions." ~ Paul Washer

"One mark of growth in grace is increased humility. The man whose soul is growing feels his own sinfulness and unworthiness more every year." …"The nearer [the believer] draws to God and the more he sees of God’s holiness and perfections, the more thoroughly is he sensible of his own countless imperfections." - J.C. Ryle

"When discouragement comes. Use evry hard situation, every bad circumstance, illness, everythng as an opportunity to rely on Him." - K.P. Yohannan

‎"Many people don't have any problem with "baby Jesus" lying in the manger. But, the whole view changes when the same Jesus appears as "The Christ and The Lord." - Sonny Simak

"The Lord calls us unto Himself first beyond anything else in life." - K.P. Yohannan

"The longer I live the more I am convinced that he primary thing the enemy fights is men and women being genuinely reconciled to God. He don't care about folk being religious so long as they never come into genuine fellowship with God." - Robert Wurtz II

"The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ." - C.H. Spurgeon

"Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians" – Leonard Ravenhill

“Read the biographies of God’s men and you will discover that each one sought and obtained the endowment of power from on high. One sermon preached in the anointing is worth a thousand in the energy of the flesh.” - Oswald J. Smith

"Labor for the Kingdom's advance and the Great Commission. The Master gave us this irrevocable task. Please, please do not waste your life." - Paul Washer

"Have you thought about the Great Commission today?" - Paul Washer

"Oh to rejoice all the more in the preciousness of Jesus, and in the riches of that grace that has made us "accepted in the beloved." (Eph 1:6). Beloved He is of God; believed He ought to be of us. But oh, how short I fall here again! May God help me to love Him more and serve Him better. Do pray for me. Pray that the Lord will keep me from sin, will sanctify me wholly, will use me more largely in His service." - Hudson Taylor

"Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation, regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong. Just as what we may call holiness without love is not God's kind of holiness, so also what we may call love without holiness, is not God's kind of love...A false spirit of accommodation is sweeping the world as well as the Church, including those who claim the label of evangelical." - Francis A. Schaeffer

"I have but one passion, 'Tis He, 'Tis He, 'Tis only He!" - Count Zinzendorf

"Am I a soldier of the cross, A follower of the Lamb, And shall I fear to own His cause, Or blush to speak His Name?" -Isaac Watts

"Our enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience." - Amy Carmichael

"When we reject the authority over us, we are actually opposing God Himself. I don’t know how you feel about this, but it causes me to have a holy fear regarding delegated authority." - K.P. Yohannan

"We will never make any progress in becoming more like Jesus unless we permit God to cut us open, search our hearts, try us, know our thoughts and then change us from the inside...that reality will make us powerful witnesses for Jesus, even if we don't say a word." - K.P. Yohannan

"Only one life. It will soon be past.ONLY WHAT YOU ALLOW CHRIST TO DO THROUGH YOU will last. What you do "FOR Christ" may be uprooted-Mat.15:13" - Zac Poonen

"Generally, people love to be uplifted and praised by others … . The Lord Jesus, on the other hand, … found fishermen and enlisted those with no learning and social status as his disciples … . The Lord would have no use for the knowledgeable Saul if he had not been changed to the humble Paul. If Moses were still the prince in his palace and did not become a shepherd, the Lord would have no place for him either. O Lord, may you rid us of our towering ambitions … . May we follow You to do the things that the world hates and walk the paths where few people want to travel." - John Sung

"My main ambition in life is to be on the devil's most wanted list" - Leonard Ravenhill

“I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out.” - John Wesley

"What a desperate condition, for a soul to be left ot his own defense against legions of lusts and evils! He will be torn to pieces with no God to call them off, but Satan to urge them on. Do not let anyone deceive you. Spiritual darkness can never be expelled except by union with Christ." - William Gurnall

"Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but how much of God's money will I keep for myself." - John Wesley

"In Thy service pain is pleasure; with Thy favor loss is gain." - Henry F. Lyte

"Listen! Anyone who comes to know God they will come to the place of Nothingness and emptyness. And that is where God begins to work." - K.P. Yohannnan

"Where Christianity has room to roam under man's domain, it will eventually become man's Christianity." - Mark S. Case

"GOD'S PEOPLE ARE IN DESPERATE NEED OF BECOMING DESPERATE FOR HIM AS HE REALLY IS." - Mark S. Case

‎"Little is much, when God is in it;
Man's busiest day's not worth God's minute,
Much is little everywhere,
If God the labour do not share;
So work with God and nothing's lost,
Who works with Him does best and most:
Work on! Work on!"—A. A. Rees

“I see many knights going to the Holy Land in the expectation of conquering it by force of arms; but instead of accomplishing this object, they are in the end all swept away themselves. Therefore, it is my belief that the conquest of the Holy Land should be attempted in no other way than as Christ and his Apostles undertook to accomplish it: by love, by prayer, by tears, and by the offering up on our own lives. It seems that the possession of the Holy Sepulcher can be better secured by the force of preaching than by the force of arms. Therefore, let monks march forth as holy knights and proclaim to the infidels the truth of Thy passion.” - Raymond Lull (July, 1266)

‎"Sin is more dangerous than wild bears, more deadly than blazing forest fires. Ask Nebuchadnezzar, who lost his mind because he refused to deal with his pride. Ask Samson, who was reduced to a pathetic shred of a man because he never got control over the lusts of his flesh. Ask Achan and Ananias and Sapphira, who all lost their lives over “small,” secret sins." - Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“Give yourself a little leisure to converse with God, and take your rest awhile in him.” - St. Anselm, 10th century

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"Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands." - Elizabeth Elliot

"The two missing elements in the Christianity of most young men and women is a disdain for the world and a striving after holiness." - Paul Washer

"The closer you come to God the more of the world you must leave behind. The two are polar opposites, mutually exclusive, incompatible." - Paul Washer

"We preach and pray, and you hear; but there is no motion Christ-ward until the Spirit of God blows upon us." - John Flavel

"Greatest hindrance to spread of Gospel today may be the church's attempt to do God's work apart from power of God's Spirit." - David Platt

"Church, we can accomplish more in 1 month in dependence on the Spirit than we can in 100 yrs in dependence on ourselves." - David Platt

"To manage a life of pain, as a believer in Jesus, remember: This is all the hell you will ever bear." - Robert Murray Cheyne

“It is possible to move men, through God, by prayer alone.” Hudson Taylor

"One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there's always so much more to know, so much more to discover. Just when we least expect it, He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions about who He is and how He works." - Joni Eareckson Tada

"How differently would ministers live if they believed that their hidden life of prayer was of more value to God than their public ministry?" - Paul Washer

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." -Mother Teresa

"Pray, and let God worry." - Martin Luther

"Our God can work through means or above them. He that puts the treasure into earthen vessels, often allows the vessels to be chipped and broken, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us." - Robert M. M'Cheyne

‎"Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely." -Robert M. McCheyne

"God doesn't need our plans, programs or passion. He wants our brokenness and dependence on Him." - Greg Gordon

"The individual God uses he first calls, then he breaks, and lastly anoints. There is no other way to usability in His kingdom. We must be God's man or we will just build a fleshy kingdom in the name of Christ." - Greg Gordon

"My goal is to arrive in heaven tired." - Ron Pearce

"God calls leaders to be servants not masters. We must serve the people the Lord has given us." - K.P. Yohannan

"O Lamb of God, deliver me..."

From subtle love of softening things,

From easy choices, weakenings,

(Not thus are spirits fortified,

Not this way went the Crucified)

From all that dims Thy Calvary

O Lamb of God, deliver me.

~Amy Carmichael

"True godly leadership will lead people to a deeper walk with the Lord not just better work." - K.P. Yohannan

"It is reported that a certain man planned to poison Martin Luther, but Luther was forewarned by a fiahtful friend who sent him a picture of the would-be murderer. The Bible shows you, Christian, the faces of those lusts which Satan hires to destroy your precious soul. 'By them is thy servant warned' Psalm 19:11." - William Gurnall

"A group of soldiers cast lots for his robe and yet today many cast lots for HIS Glory." - Scott Hynds

"Missions cannot be something that we reserve for a special event or time in our life, it must be the daily result of our passion for Christ. He is the one that said "For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”" - K.P. Yohannan

"Eternity should be the lens by which we view our life, decisions, time and resources. It all must be for His Glory." - K.P. Yohannan

"The secret of our survival is fixing our eyes on Jesus and making Him alone our focus. Then our walk with God and our commitment to serve Him will no longer depend on whether or not people treat us right or circumstances are in our favor. We will no longer rely on our emotions to support us or on our successes to keep us going. Jesus alone will become our goal and motivation—our prize—and we will live for Him, run our race for Him and cross the finish line for Him." - K.P. Yohannan

"People nowadays take time far more seriously than eternity." - Thomas Kelly

"Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?" - Amy Carmichael

"It is the enduring kindness and faithfulness of God that enables a man to rest before his enemies and in the face of his own failures." - Paul Washer

"His kindness endures forever. I look back and see only weakness and faithlessness on my part, but only strength and faithfulness on His." - Paul Washer

"Jesus Christ loved the church enough to die for it yet many professing Christians don't even have time for it. Jesus Christ wanted to dwell in the church so much he died for it yet many proessing Christians don't even care enough to visit it. If God wants to commune with his people and Christians have God's spirit there should be a deep longing to fellowship with the people of God." - Josh Parsley

"Without spiritual fellowship there is no discipleship. Without discipleship the great commission is not fulfilled. How can a church with no real, intimate fellowship say they are an 'evangelistic church' concerned about the lost? To where and whom are they going to go after they get saved?" - Josh Parsley

In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
~ Paul of Tarsus

"Oh God, here's my Bible, Here's my money. Here's me. Use me, God." - Gladys Alyward

"God can take away our breath in a moment. He can take away our anointing in a moment. I fear to lose the anointing more than anything else in my life. I would rather lose all my money and all my health than lose the anointing of God upon my life. It is easy to lose the anointing by being a little careless with money or with our tongue or in some other small matter. When Ezekiel’s face was in the dust, the Spirit came into him and set him on his feet. There – in the dust before God – is where the Spirit will fall upon us. Let Him then lift us up and exalt us. Never exalt yourself." - Zac Poonen

"So many want Solomons storehouse in their hands, instead of having Golgothas hill in their hearts." - Scott Hynds

"Our knowledge of God's will is imperfect, and our strength to direct our lives according to it is weak. We are cast upon God's providence." - Paul Washer

"Henceforth, I have to examine my sins everyday. I also plead with God to show me my sins and to forgive me. Leading the whole of China to the Lord would then not be difficult. Seek your own spiritual revival and revival will come upon everyone else. Know your own shortcoming and let the Truth live in you." - John Sung

"We can overcoming by fixing our eyes on Christ and not giving in to dispair. Whatever you do, do not quit! Do not quit!" - Paul Washer

“We need one another ; are dependent on one another---not as fountains, but as channels of blessing.” - R.C. Chapman

"To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.” - Oswald Chambers

"We tend daily to forget the gospel. Be reminded today that God's pleasure in you is not based on your performance for Him." - David Platt

"We must never talk about the failure of Christianity. It is impossible for Christianity to fail. What fails is the shabby counterfeit to the real thing that we are willing to put up with." - Geoffrey King

"The world is all title page and no contents" - Young

"Remember this: God will suit your strength to your work, and in the hardest service you shall have the choicest assistance" - Thomas Brooks

"We will never be satisfied with knowing about God. We are satisfied only with our experience of God." - Charles Price

"Often in the earlier years of your Christian life you have more traumatic experiences with God than you tend to have later years; not because you grow cold, but that you have learned the lesson… You’ve learned that God is sufficient." - Charles Price

"God pre-dates time. Time is a created thing and not everlasting. And God because He is eternal, stands inside of time." - Charles Price

"As children of God we do not live for approval, but from approval. You don't live for acceptance, cause you are already accepted." - Jaeson Ma

"Character must come before gifting. Wisdom must precede war. Self control is necessary for victory in all of life. Patience in all things." - Jaeson Ma

"Not for our sake, God, no, not for our sake, but for your name’s sake, show your glory. Do it on account of your merciful love Ps 115." - Jaeson Ma

"Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living." - Kay Arthur

‎"Some of us live as if Jesus Christ is not coming back." - R.C. Sproul

"It is not the times we spend with God, but it is the times He spends with us, in regards to our relationship with Him in prayer." - Gerhard du Toit.

"The greatness of Christianity lies in its being hated by the world, not in its being convinced to it." - Ignatius

"Sometimes the highest callings are in the hidden places. Sometimes liberty comes in limitations. The world cries: Be something... The Lord cries: Be faithful in the little." - Anonymous

"From all that dims Thy Calvary, O Lamb of God, deliver me...." - Amy Wilson Carmichael

‎"Never try to prove the critics wrong because they've never mattered anyways... just please God!" - Matthew Barnett

"Christ is not only all that we need; He is all that we have. Apart from Him we have no part with God!" - Paul Washer

"Far be it from me to imagine that Zion contains none but Calvinistic
Christians within her walls, or that there are none saved who do not
hold our views."
- Spurgeon

‎"It's God's job to save people....it's your job to never give up on them." - Matthew Barnett

"Remember that Dwight L. Moody, the great evangelist, used to say; "We are leaky vessels and we need to stay under the fountain all the time." When I ask the Lord to fill me with His Holy Spirit I am, of course, relinquishing all rights to the control of my life for that day." - Bill McLeod

"check your heart. If you find that a transfer of title has indeed been made out to Christ, praise God that you are a citizen of heaven and not of hell. Mark the day of your spiritual birth on the calendar of your heart and call for a celebration! It is your marriage day." - William Gurnall

"Do you know that from the hour you come under His dominion, all the sweet fruit of the tree of life is yours? It is a perfect gift given in perfect love to the bride which He is even now perfecting." - William Gurnall

"Near the cross! O Lamb of God,
Bring its scenes before me;
Help me walk from day to day
With its shadow o'er me."
- Fanny Crosby

"There is no strategy to combat the lostness of the world or the superficiality of Evangelicalism. But God can use a holy instrument!" - Paul Washer

"Private meditation exchanged for conversation. Here is the root of the evil - Forsake God, and he forsakes us." - Robert Murray M'cheyne

"Oh blessed hardships, trials and tribulations! You continually keep me at the beautiful feet of my Master. For this reason, I shall rejoice at your persistence in my life. (James 1:2-4)." - Holly Dye

"How much less will God yield up a soul unto its enemy when it takes sanctuary in HIs name, saying, 'Lord, I am hunted with such a temptation, dogged with such a lust, either Thou must pardon it, or I am damned; mortify it, or I should be a slave to it; take me into the bosom of Thy love, for Christ's sake; castle me in the arms of Thy everlasting strength, it is in Thy power tto save me from, or give me up into, the hands of my enemy. I have no confidence in myself or anyother; into Thy hands I commit my cause, my life, and rely on Thee.' This dependence of a soul undoubtedly will awaken the Almighty pwoer of God for such as one's defence." - William Gurnall

"Above all, keep much in the presence of God." - Robert Murray M'cheyne

"There remains a rest for the people of God…in a world that’s tirelessly searching for rest, the child of God has access to constant tranquility in the finished work of Christ. No one can boast in acquiring it by human strength or effort. It is simply received and enjoyed by those who have found their expectation at the foot of the cross. Jesus’ labor has secured our peace…and He simply wants us to enjoy it!" - Brent Yim

"My heart and my flesh may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." I am discovering that God exposes our human weakness to the end that we would understand to a greater degree the matchless value of our divine inheritance. How else would we be able to sing in harmony with the words of the Psalmist? God must reveal our insufficiency before we can comprehend His absolute sufficiency!" - Brent Yim

"If you want to make the Master angry prefer land, meat, and marriage to the bounty of his banquet. (Luke 14:18-21)." - John Piper

“Ours is all theology. We get a starving man and give him a cookbook. Does it help him? He looks in the cookbook and sees there a dish with potatoes, beef, etc. What do you do? You tantalize him! You say, “Oh, I hope one day you can come to our place We’re going to have this dish, this beef, this turkey, and something else.” And yet the poor man is ravenously hungry! We give him a picture, but we don’t give him the goods! At the average church on Sunday morning, they give you the menu, but they never give you the meal. They give an outline of theology: ‘This is our precious doctrine.” So, most people will be reciting doctrine in Hell.” - Leonard Ravenhill

"A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough for the next six months, or take sufficient air into his lungs at one time to sustain life for a week. We must draw upon God’s boundless store of grace from day to day as we need it." - D.L. Moody

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