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"Any preacher who does not tell his people the whole truth may be loved by them but does not love them." - James Macdonald

"Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it." - William Penn

"He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity,is wise for a moment, but a fool forever." - Tillotson

"Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow Thee.
Destitute, despised, forsaken, Thou from hence my all shall be.
Perish every fond ambition, all I’ve sought or hoped or known.
Yet how rich is my condition! God and Heaven are still mine own." - H.F. Lyte

“Let us remember that in the last judgment we shall not be asked how learned we were and whether we displayed our learning before the world; to what extent we enjoyed the favor of men and knew how to keep it; with what honors we were exalted and how great a reputation in the world we left behind us; or how many treasures of earthly good we amassed for our children and thereby drew a curse upon ourselves. Instead we shall be asked how faithfully and with how childlike a heart we sought to further the kingdom of God; with how pure and godly a teaching and how worthy an example we tried to edify our hearers amid the scorn of the world, denial of self, taking up of the cross, and imitation of our Savior; with what zeal we opposed not only error but also wickedness of life; or with what constancy and cheerfulness we endured the persecution or adversity thrust upon us by the manifestly godless world or by false brethren, and amid such suffering praised our God.” - Philip Spener

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

“Every hour comes with some little light regarding God's will fastened upon its back." - F.W.Faber

"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

‎"A gospel that is culturally palatable finds its origin with man; whereas, the offensive Gospel of the Cross of Jesus Christ finds its origin with God." - Derek Melton

“[Dr. J. Edwin Orr] said historical research proves that prayer precedes revival and awakening. Evangelism and social justice follow close behind.” “When de Tocqueville visited America in 1831, he said, ‘America is a nation with the soul of a church.’ However, by the 1840s, denominations were splitting and an emphasis on the Second Coming left many disillusioned. Apathy and complacency began taking a toll.” [Welsh Revival 1904] “A hundred thousand were converted cutting drunkenness in half and causing taverns to go bankrupt. Crimes were so few that judges had no cases to try. The mules in the mines had to be re-taught because the miners quit using profanity…. Church membership in America increased by two million in five years. It was common for stores to close for hours for prayer. In Los Angeles, the Grand Opera House was filled at midnight with drunks and prostitutes seeking salvation. [J. Edwin Orr, The Re-study of revival and Revivalism (Los Angeles: The Oxford Association for Research in Revival or Evangelical Awakening, 1981), p. 45]“ “We don’t have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. He’s for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer.” “We’ve learned enough to know He will come, but have we learned enough to pray until He does?” - Glenn Sheppard

"However, by the 1840s, denominations were splitting and an emphasis on the Second Coming left many disillusioned. Apathy and complacency began taking a toll.”

It wasn't the emphasis on the "Second Coming" that split the Church. It was around 1826-7 that Margaret McDonald's vision got to Darby and then Scoffield and changed the eschatology that the Church believed for almost 1800 yrs that split the Church and caused "complacency" and will continue to, until men of GOD preach the truth.

The truth brings Revival and the fear of the LORD, repentence and a striving as Paul strove, for the crown of the Overcomers.

"...Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God ..."

~ Peter - second epistle, third chapter.

"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, then you probably aren't doing anything significant." -- Israel Wayne

The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

Oswald Chambers: last line of 2nd August, My Utmost for His Highest

‎"Invertebrates have no purpose behind a pulpit." - Derek Melton

"The Gospel is the hope of this world, not our performance or repentance. Christ paid the sin dept once for all by His blood." - Greg Gordon

"The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One. While he looks at Christ the very things he has so long been trying to do will be getting done within him. It will be God working in him to will and to do." - A.W. Tozer

"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

"God is not only passionately opposed to pride; He is decisively drawn to humility" - C. J Mahaney

"One drop of Christ's blood is worth more than heaven and earth." -Martin Luther

"Why a lamb in his passion? For he underwent death with being guilty of any inequity. Why a lion in his resurrection? For in being slain, he slew death." - Augustine

"Vicit agnus noster, eum sequamur (Our Lamb has conquered, let us follow him)." - Moravian Vision

"As I have warned you before, abhor the doctrine of the universal fatherhood of God, for it is a lie, and a deep deception. It stabs at the heart, first, of the doctrine of the adoption, which is taught in Scripture, for how can God adopt men if they are all his children already? In the second place, it stabs at the heart of the doctrine of regeneration, which is certainly taught in the Word of God. Note it is by regeneration and faith that we become the children of God, but how can that be if we are the children of God already?" - C.H. Spurgeon

"The greatest goal of each day should be to practice the presence of Christ, even in the most mundane activities." - Paul Washer

"Character means living your life before God, fearing only Him and seeking to please Him alone, no matter how you feel or what others may say or do." - Warren Wiersbe

‎"The Lordship of Jesus Christ does not wane if He is rejected; He is Lord over both Heaven and Hell." - Derek Melton

"The Gospel is only Gospel when we first understand the Law and our situation under the Law." - R.C. Sproul

"We believe that the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not commence our existence at the reformation, we were reformers before Luther and Calvin were born; we never came from the Church of Rome, for we were never in it, but we have an unbroken line up to the apostles themselves. We have always existed from the days of Christ, and our principles, sometimes veiled and forgotten, like a river which may travel under ground for a little season, have always had honest and holy adherents. Persecuted alike by Romanists and Protestants of almost every sect, yet there has never existed a Government holding Baptist principles which persecuted others; nor, I believe, any body of Baptists ever held it to be right to put the consciences of others under the control of man. We have ever been ready to suffer, as our martyrologies will prove, but we are not ready to accept any help from the State, to prostitute the purity of the Bride of Christ to any alliance with Government, and we will never make the Church, although the Queen, the despot over the consciences of men." - Charles Spurgeon

"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"-H.Taylor.

"Our method of proclaiming salvation is this: to point out to every heart the loving Lamb, who died for us, and although He was the Son of God, offered Himself for our sins ... by the preaching of His blood, and of His love unto death, even the death of the cross." - Count Zinzendorf

"When God-centered leaders don't know what to do, they know what to do about not knowing what to do. Pray." - John Piper

“We honor the old prophets, we honor the Tozer’s and Spurgen’s but we don’t want to pay the price they payed, and they payed the price by being men who walked alone who lived with God and who loved his word.” - Paul Washer

(As American Christians) “We have forgotten how to blush” - Paul Washer

“Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.” - Paul Washer

‎"The sense of poverty is the very impulse that sends him to [Christ] the fountain of abundance; and the detestation he feels of the sin that dwells in him, is the best [of Christ reigning in the regenerate heart] that sin shall not have the dominion over him." Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847)

“This is serious business. Time is running out fast for all of us. The greatest revival that swept America wasn’t staged. It wasn’t advertised. It wasn’t financially backed. It didn’t have broken down film stars and ex-footballers. It was in the ordinary course of a meeting, when Jonathan Edwards preached his sermon, “Sinners in the hands of an angry God.” There was nobody advertised. There was nobody projected.”

~ Leonard Ravenhill

You're not just disobedient: there's something wrong with your heart if you're not intensely concerned for the orphan, the immigrant and the widow." - Tim Keller

"Differences between much of today's preaching and that of Jesus are not petty; they are enormous. The chief errors are not in emphasis or approach but in the heart of the Gospel message. Were there a deficiency in one of the areas mentioned in these pages, it would be serious. But to ignore all--the attributes of God, the holy law of God, repentance, a call to bow to the enthroned Christ--and to pervert the doctrine of assurance, is the most vital mistake." - Walter Chantry

‎"Our trials are God's platform to capture us with His grace." - Tullian Tchividjian

‎"Because we are the most forgiven people in the world, we should be the most forgiving people in the world." - C.J Mahaney

"Legalism denies that Christ is completely sufficient for salvation. That some additional element of self-effort, merit or faithfulness on our part is necessary to either attain or maintain a just standing before God." - John Hendryx

‎"Oh sweet soul, it is not your words that God looks at. It's not as though He will only listen to you if you come to Him with some eloquent speech. His eye is on the brokenness of your heart, and this is what makes the compassion of the Lord run over." (Psalm 51:17) - John Bunyan

“I did not commence my spiritual life—no, I rather kicked, and struggled against the things of the Spirit: when He drew me, for a time I did not run after Him: there was a natural hatred in my soul of everything holy and good. Wooings were lost upon me—warnings were cast to the wind—thunders were despised; and as for the whispers of His love, they were rejected as being less than nothing and vanity.” - C.H. Spurgeon

‎"I strive to keep the feeling of Eternity always before me!'' - Andrew Bonar

"A living Redeemer, truly mine, is joy unspeakable." - C.H. Spurgeon

"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

"Christ is the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is the meeting-place of all the waters in the world, so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet." - John Flavel

"Praise the Lord for an increasing number of theologians who are pastors! Deep theology must originate in the pulpit, not the classroom"

"You are "free indeed" when you have the desire, ability, and opportunity to do what will make you happy in 1,000 years." - John Piper

"As I was walking in the fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming power, that every one of my flock must soon be in heaven or hell. Oh how I wished that I had a tongue like thunder, that I might make all hear." - Robert Murray McCheyne

"there is something infintiely vast and glorious in the righteousness of God. When the deluge covered the earth, it covered the highest mountains. When a sinner is cast down under the righteousness of God, he is as it were lost and swallowed up in Christ." - Robert Murray Mcheyne

"You must fight and you must overcome. Fight to read the Word, fight to pray, fight to overcome sin..." - Paul Washer

"The true test of Christianity is endurance." - Paul Washer

"One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"If your heart is warm, pray! If you heart is cold, pray! Pray without ceasing (I Thessalonians 5:17)." - Paul Washer

Ask yourself two questions, "What part do you have in reaching the unreached people groups?" and "What sacrifices have you made?" - Paul Washer

"Rich were the drops of Jesus' blood,
That calm'd his frowning face,
That sprinkled o'er the burning throne
And turn'd the wrath to grace."
-Dr. Watts

"The apostles, by precept and example, powerfully enforce their Lord's doctrine and practice. Their lives are true copies of their cxliortations. Their deepest sermons are only exact descriptions of their behaviour. It is hard to say which excite men most to believe and obey, their seraphic discourses, or their angelic conduct. Their habours are crowned with general success. Judaism and heathenism are every where struck at, and fall under the thunder of their words of faith, and the shining power (might I not say the lightning) of their works of love. Thus the world is "turned upside down" before faith and works; "the times of refreshing come from the presence of the Lord ;" and earth, cursed as it is, becomes a paradise for obedient believers." - John Fletcher

"“Do you feel more loved because God makes much of you, or because, at the cost of his Son, he enables you to enjoy making much of him forever? Does your happiness hang on seeing the cross of Christ as a witness to your worth, or as a way to enjoy God’s worth forever?
Is God’s glory in Christ the foundation of your gladness?”" - John Piper

"In the Scriptures, by the power of the Holy Ghost, He makes Himself known unto our souls." - George Mueller

"We should pray for grace and strength to keep close unto him. Our deceitful hearts are apt to start aside from him. Through the corruption of them, the temptations of Satan, and the snares of the world, we are too much carried away; and are ready to depart from God at all times. How earnest then should we be in plying the throne of grace for strength to keep chose to him; to walk humbly before him, and a constant dependence upon him." - John Gill

"A calm hour with God is worth a whole lifetime with man." Excerpt from a letter written by Robert Murray M'Cheyne

"We are to imagine that; God has two hands; the one, which like a hammer beats down and breaks in pieces those who raise up themselves; and the other, which raises up the humble who willingly let down themselves, and is like a firm prop to sustain them. Were we really convinced of this, and had it deeply fixed in our minds, who of us would dare by pride to urge war with God?" - John Calvin

"As soon as ever man fell, Christ the eternal Son of God clothed himself with his mediatorial character and therein presented himself before the Father. He immediately stepped in between an holy, infinite, offended majesty and offending mankind, and was accepted in his interposition; and so wrath was prevented from going forth in the full execution of that ensuing curse that man had brought on himself. 'Tis manifest that Christ began to exercise the office of mediator between God and man as soon as man fell because mercy began to be exercised towards man immediately." - Jonathan Edwards

“Faith that is able to warm itself at the fire of God’s love, instead of having to steal love and self-acceptance from other sources, is actually the root of holiness.” - Richard Lovelace

"The big picture in Hebrews is fairly straightforward. Put simply, it is "Jesus is the greatest." -Sinclair Ferguson

“Wisdom is the ability to see with discernment, to view life as God perceives it. Understanding is the skill to respond with insight. Knowledge is the rare trait of learning with perception, discovering and growing." - Charles R. Swindoll

"We have the breezy, self-confident Christians with little affinity for christ and His cross. We have the joy-bell boys that can bounce out there and look as much like a game show host as possible. Yet, they are doing it for Jesus' sake?! The hyprocrites! They're not doing it for Jesus' sake at all; they are doing it in their own carnal flesh and are using the church as a theater because they haven't yet reached the place where the legitimate theater would take them." - A.W. Tozer

"It is now common practice in most evangelical churches to offer the people, especially the young people, a maximum of entertainment and a minimum of serious instruction. It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend meeting where the only attraction is God. One can only conclude that God's professed children are bored with Him, for they must be wooed to meeting with a stick of striped candy in the form of religious movies, games and refreshments. This has influenced the whole pattern of church life, and even brought into being a new type of church architecture designed to house the golden calf.

So we have the strange anomaly of orthodoxy in creed and heterodoxy in practice. The striped candy technique has been so fully integrated into our present religious thinking that it is simply taken for granted. Its victims never dream that is it not a part of the teachings of Christ and His apostles. Any objection to the carryings-on of our present golden calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, 'But we are winning them!' And winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To nobility of character? To a despising of the world's treasures? To hard self-discipline? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course, the answer to all these question is 'no'." - A.W. Tozer

"All we need is men who are so sold out to Christ who will preach His word and believe it at any cost. To preach the gospel till people are converted or they die. Anything else is trivial and will work little in winning souls to christ for eternity. Oh for the old gospel to be preached again 'rightly.'" - Greg Gordon

“In the cross of Christ I glory,
towering o'er the wrecks of time.
All the light of sacred story,
gathers round its head sublime.”
-John Bowring 1825

"We need more people who will not only preach the uncompromising truth and love of the Gospel, but whose lives will be a living epistle and demonstration of the love and Gospel of Jesus!" - Patrick Ersig

"What if thou hadst committed the sins of a thousand? What if thou hadst committed the sins of a million worlds? Christ's righteousness will cover, Christ's blood will cleanse thee from the guilt of all." - George Whitefield

"The God's providence working through the years will gradually strip the believer of self-righteousness and leave him with nothing but grace." - Paul Washer

Our greatest danger, I feel today, is to quench the Spirit. This is no age to advocate restraint; the church today does not need to be restrained, but to be aroused, to be awakened, to be filled with a spirit of glory, for she is failing in the modern world.

Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones, Joy Unspeakable

"A minister may fill his pews but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more." - John Owen

"If we are not our own but the Lord's, it is clear to what purpose all
our deeds must be directed. We are not our own; therefore, neither our reason nor our will should guide us in our thoughts and actions. We are not to seek what is only expedient to the flesh. We are not our own; therefore, let us forget ourselves and our own interests as far as possible. We are God's own; to Him, therefore, let His wisdom and will dominate all our actions. We are God's. Therefore, let every part of our existence be directed toward Him as our only legitimate goal." - John Calvin

"RIGHTEOUS God! whose vengeful phials All our fears and thoughts exceed, Big with woes and fiery trials, Hanging, bursting o'er our head; While thou visitest the nations, Thy selected people spare; Arm our cautioned souls with patience, Fill our humbled hearts with prayer." - Charles Wesley

"HOW weak the thoughts, and vain, Of self-deluding men! Men who, fixed to earth alone, Think their houses shall endure, Fondly call their lands their own, To their distant heirs secure." - Charles Wesley

"Everything matters. "For God will bring everything into judgment" (Eccl. 12:14) - Derek Kidner

"Do as you wish" - Satan

"If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a glass slipper on a gouty foot." - John Bunyan

"Then let us make our boast Of his redeeming power, Which saves us to the uttermost, Till we can sin no more: Let us take up the cross, Till we the crown obtain; And gladly reckon all things loss, So we may Jesus gain." - Charles Wesley

"Before the winds that blow do cease,
Teach me to dwell within Thy calm:
Before the pain has passed in peace,
Give me, my God, to sing a psalm.
Let me not lose the chance to prove
The fullness of enabling love.
Oh, love of God, do this for me:
Maintain a constant victory."
-Amy Carmichael

“I have a burden to see the Church come to maturity
through intimacy with God…” - David Ravenhill

"Fasting is powerful because the stomach needs to be reminded who is in charge." - Art Katz

"No man can resist temptation by imitating Christ. He must be a Christ-indwelt man." - G. Campbell Morgan

"Righteousness is not something learned by discipline. Righteousness is very God." -Art Katz

"And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. So the Word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily." - Acts 19:19-20 -- Where there is salvation there is the destruction of idols, no matter the value of them, for Christ is more valuable! - James Jennings

"Measure your life by loss, not by gain, not by the wine drunk but by the wine poured forth, for he who suffers most has the most to give." - Leonard Ravenhill

"You need Gods’ power to drive the Devil away and you don’t get this power unless we find out what God is concerned about. It is really a pride problem. It is a simple matter then of submitting to God and then resisting the Devil." - Bill McLeod

"Better for you to have one sleepless night on earth than millions in Hell."

"If there are a million roads into hell; there is not one road out. Hell has no exits."

- Leonard Ravenhill

"If we're truly saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, there's nothing that He can't ask of us." - Tim Keller

"Get back to the atonement, get back to the Cross the blood! Cast your net on the right side of the ship. The Church has never been full of more gimmicks attracting crowds but not converts. Get back to the cross!" - Carter Conlon

"If I refuse to be a corn of wheat that falls to the ground and dies ("is separated from all in which it lived before") then I know nothing of Calvary Love." - Amy Carmichael

"The only time you can say 'Christ is all I need' is when Christ is all you have." - Leonard Ravenhill

"Prayer is communion and communion is not just talking to God but God talking to us." - Manley Beasley

"All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

What do you compliment? “Charm is deceitful, beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” (Prov. 31:30) - John Piper

"There is a moment coming when all the willing in the world to turn back will avail nothing. Death. Now may be all you have." - John Piper

"But the black earthly spirit of the priests wounded my life; and when I heard the bell toll to call people together to the steeple-house, it struck at my life; for it was just like a market- bell.... Oh! the vast sums of money that are gotten by the trade they make of selling the Scriptures, and by their preaching.... notwithstanding the Scriptures were given forth freely, and Christ commanded His ministers to preach freely...." - Paul Washer

"Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.” - Oswald Chambers

"Humility is the gateway to the genuine Christian life." - Henry Teichrob

"Cast thy bread upon the water, ’Twill return in many days; Crumbs of truth for Jesus scatter, All along thy pilgrim ways" - Barney E. Warren

“Now the Lord says, “No servant can serve two masters.” This age and the one that is coming are two enemies…We cannot, therefore, be friends of both; we must renounce this one in order to experience that one. We think that it is better to hate what is here, because they are insignificant and transitory and perishable, and to love what is there, things which are good and imperishable. For if we do the will of Christ, we will find rest; but if we do not, if we disobey His commandments, then nothing will save us from eternal punishment. And the scripture also says in Ezekiel, “Even if Noah and Job and Daniel should rise up, they will not save their children” in the captivity.” Now if even such righteous men as these are not able, by means of their own righteous deeds, to save their children, what assurance do we have of entering the kingdom of God if we fail to keep our baptism pure and undefiled? Or who will be our advocate, if we are not found to have holy and righteous works? (Chapter 6 from ccel.org, yet J.B. Lightfoot’s translation; II Clement, 1st Century)

"We need a revival! The world – hungry, restless, sin-cursed, dying – needs a revival! God wants us to have it. Let us make every effort to meet the divine conditions and let us expect Him to answer by fire." - P.V. Jenness

"Recently heard Tim Conway say he wonders if biographies or revival accounts will be written of our generation...it's not too late. But it's not gonna come through silly boys playing with theology that isn't a reality." - Justin Trevino

"Lord, I repent of me." - Rex Andrews

"Nothing is important but Jesus and abiding in Him!" - Hans R. Waldvogel

"So skilled is error at imitating truth, that the two are constantly being mistaken for each another. It takes a sharp eye these days to know which brother is Cain and which is Abel." The Apostle Paul also speaks to the outwardly pleasing behavior of apostates and their teaching when he says, "For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:13-14). In other words, do not look for apostates to appear bad on the outside or speak dramatic words of heresy at the outset of their teaching. Rather than denying truth outright, apostates will twist it to fit their own agenda". - A.W. Tozer

"If we stop loving we fall, even in this life, into something almost equivalent to hell." - Joseph Chavady

"And now sinners what will you do? Will you dare to go on in that broad way of sin, which before long will open under you, and let you down into the horrible gulf of unquenchable burnings? Can you be contented with a portion in this life, and to receive all your good things here, when fire andbrimstone, and everlasting burnings shall be the portion of your cup hereafter? Will any pleasure of the flesh and sin for a season countervail that everlasting pain and misery, which will be the bitter fruit and consequent of them? Let me therefore exhort you without any delay to come out of the broad way of sin. It is the way of hell, and will you proceed any further in it? You that are profane and unclean, you that are swearers, Sabbath-breakers, scoffers of religion, persecutors of God's people, drunkards, covetous persons, yes, all you that are hypocrites, that are impenitent and unbelieving persons, give me leave to stop you in your course, or rather hearken unto the voice of God in his Word, who calls you to turn from your evil ways, that iniquity may not be your ruin. Come out of the broad way, and get into the narrow way. It has a strait gate, namely the gate of regeneration. This you most pass through; you must become new creatures, get new hearts, and lead new lives. You must walk in the narrow way of mortification, self-denial, new obedience, otherwise you will certainly be numbered among the damned, who will be everlastingly burned in the fire of hell. The passage is difficult, and the way narrow, but both are necessary. It is the passage from death to life, and the way from hell to heaven." - Thomas Vincent

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world.
His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages.

(Corrie Ten Boom :)

"What is the preacher's job? To prepare people for eternity." - Leonard Ravenhill

"He said something you don't hear much today. You can't build a big ministry on this verse. The Gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life. And few are those that find it. You will know it by their fruits." - Joyce Green

"Too often prayer costs us nothing and achieves nothing... We need the burden of God." - John McGregor

"Never be afraid of God's calling on your life. When He calls you He will empower you for what He wants you to do." - K.P. Yohannan

Behind the Chapel area at Bethany Fellowship hung the sign:
"Live With Eternity Values in View."

“The true saints of God, who have clear heads, and pure, warm hearts, have in all generations had to walk between the two extremes of cold formality on the one side, and wild, ranting fanaticism on the other. Dead formality and the false fire of fanaticism are both Satan’s counterfeits, and he does not care into which extreme the soul plunges, just so he can prevent it from having that scriptural type of holiness which is ‘full of faith,’ and ‘full of the Holy Spirit,’ and ‘full of wisdom,’ and of a ‘sound mind." - George D. Watson

"Oh, how jealous He is for His glory, and how jealous He is over our lives. The jealousy of the Lamb is the expression of His great love, in that He will not let us go until we have come into an unhindered union with God Himself." - Bryan Purtle

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under live robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." ~C.S. Lewis

“We have abolished the fear of God and instead we live in the constant fear of man. We have done away with the idea of hell in the future and we have succeeded in turning our lives in this world into a living hell” - Dr C.E.M. Joad

"The God of holiness and eteranal 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

"We need to realize that God can do more in one minute with His power than we can in a lifetime with our strategies!” - Roger Ellsworth

"It is a grave disservice to the heart, soul, body and spirit of a woman when she is given the subtle message that the truth of her own pain is not as important as the reputation of the ones who inflict it." Anonymous

"There is no gain but by a loss, You cannot save but by a cross; The corn of wheat to multiply Must fall into the ground and die. Wherever you ripe fields behold, Waving to God their sheaves of gold, Be sure some corn of wheat has died, Some soul there has been crucified— Someone has wrestled, wept and prayed, And fought hell’s legions undismayed." - Samuel Zwemer

"Adversity can only be faced in a godly way if we are filled with the Holy Spirit... In recognition of God's sovereignty, we are instructed to face adversity as an opportunity to demonstrate the adequacy of God's grace in out lives." - Henry Teichrob

Paul gave the Gospel “first place” in his preaching, sought to proclaim it clearly, and pronounced a curse upon all who perverted its truth. - Paul Washer

"The greatest things we can do, is to simply know the Lord more and more. Nothing else is more important than that." - K.P. Yohannan

"Leadership requires self sacrifice-the willingness to loose one's freedom to free others to reach God's full potential." - K.P. Yohannan

"Our one great hindrance to fuller blessing is something along with God in our heart" (A. Bonar). Remove every idol from my heart." - Nancy Leigh DeMoss

"O Lord, the clouds are the dust of thy feet! How near thou art in the clouds and dark day!" - C.H. Spurgeon

"God's people will be better off eternally because they suffer temporarily. "Therefore we do not lose heart" (2 Cor 4:16)." - Randy Alcorn

"In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me." (George Muller)

‎"We have watched long enough what the devil does; now we want to see what the Lord Jesus can do.” - Johann Blumhardt (1805-1880), German revivalist

‎"We have watched long enough what the devil does; now we want to see what the Lord Jesus can do.” - Johann Blumhardt (1805-1880), German revivalist

The Awakening is a great book by Johann Blumhardt.

http://healingandrevival.com/BioJBlumhardt.htm

"Do not give way to lowness while you are young. Rise up on the strength of God and resolve to conquer."
— Catherine Booth

"In our pride we often think we can master our lives alone, independent of God's help." - Basilea Schlink

“If we will allow only the refuse of our time for this duty, when we have nothing else to do, we should not expect any great success in it…………this is one pregnant reason why men are so cold and formal, so lifeless in spiritual duties – namely the times and season which people allot for spiritual mediation”. - John Owen

"There is no hope in any self-effort I can produce. The only hope is the life of Christ through me." - Carter Conlon

So short. So short. "What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes." (James 4:14) - John Piper

Years ago, I asked Jim Downing, one of the patriarchs of the Navigator work, “Why is it that so few men finish well?” His response was profound. He said, “They learn the possibility of being fruitful without being pure. . . they begin to believe that purity doesn’t matter. Eventually, they become like trees rotting inside that are eventually toppled by a storm.” - Micheal Oh

“Only if divine love burns in your heart can you awaken in a state of readiness, shaking off the paralyzing sleep that will overcome all humanity, believers and nonbelievers alike.” – Basilea Schlink

"Do not be lazy. Run each day’s race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God. Keep on running even when you have had a fall. The victory wreath is won by him who does not stay down, but always gets up again, grasps the banner of faith and keeps on running in the assurance that Jesus is Victor." – Basilea Schlink

"The proud think that their opinion alone is right. They cannot see the good points of others, as the humble do, and appreciate their opinions. That is why there is such disagreement, strife and quarrelling and even irrreconciliation in families and in other groups." – Basilea Schlink

"A Giraffe wil spend 3-4 hours with its baby. And Yet you spend 3 minutes at the altar yesterday morning asking someone to fill out a 3 by 5 card! And send them back to Hell! They weren't born-again and you know it! Yet you do it every sunday! Every card they sign will face you at the judgement seat. Why did you leave them? Why didn't you say: 'I will stay behind with you?' - Leonard Ravenhill

from: https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=17134&commentView=itemComments

"I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light." - John Keith Falconer

"But you must allow me to say gently that you are missing the best in life. If you loved Jesus Christ as I and many members of Gilcomston love Him, you would be prepared almost to crawl to Church to worship Him." - William Still

‎"I've learned the biggest manufacturer of sin is self... We look for the devil working in this place and that place and under every bush, but in reality we just need to look right at ourselves." - Ron Noble

"“What is man that Thou art mindful of him?” Has He ever stopped at your door? Has He ever knocked at the door of your heart? Has He ever spoken to your heart? Have you heard His voice? Have you heard Him plaintively ask to let Him come into your heart? Have you heard Him say to you that you’re “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,” and that you don’t need to remain like that? But if you’ll “hear His voice,” and “open the door,” He will come in. He’ll give you “gold tried in the fire.” He’ll give you reality—“beauty for ashes, the oil of joy… for the spirit of heaviness.” He will substitute Himself for your self." - Hans R. Waldvogel

"The real measure of our wealth is how much we should be worth if we lost our money." - J.H. Jowett

"Jesus' ultimate assignment was to go to the Cross. His Spirit's ultimate assignment is to finish the church. He is about to do just that." - Mark S. Case

"In spite of our waywardness from God, He still has a remnant, and I hope and believe that He has plans for a real spiritual revival in our midst - an unprecedented revival that will change Christianity as we know it!" - Mark S. Case

"You will waste your marriage if you do not believe it is ordained by God to conform you to the image of His Son. Romans 8:29, 'For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.'" - Don Currin

* one purpose - to glorify God
* one oracle - the word of God
* one teacher - the Holy Spirit
* one recourse - prayer

-Aubrey Mutch (sharing about George Muller vision).

“When sitting in meetings, I have often been astonished when the appeals for healing come. Almost everyone comes out of their seats. I have never seen such a sick Church everywhere, and I think that we will continue to be sick, both physically and spiritually, so long as we live egocentric lives. For example, what is the first question you raise when you leave the building Sunday morning? Is it, “What did you think of the speaker? Did you like him? Did you like the worship? Did you like the sermon?” Is your ‘like’ the center of your being?

If we have shifted from carnal centrality to spiritual centrality, we are still the center. No wonder we are sick; no wonder we need continually to be healed. Until we make God, His glory, His honor, His name and His eternal purposes the center, we will continue to be sick. We have a false center, and it is in ourselves.”

(By Art Katz ‘Anatomy of Deception’ )

"I was stunned by a remark that a man made not long ago, “Little of what is known to be the work or the activity of the Spirit of God is truly the Spirit of God.” What do you think of that statement? Suppose you could see as God sees. Imagine all the things that have excited and titillated your religious sensibilities—the glory of singing, the music, the instruments, the number of attendees, crowds, inspiring messages, etc. What would you say if I suggested that all of those things could be conducted in the realm of the soul? In other words, you could have it all and thereby think yourselves quite spiritual! Yet, it has neither a wit nor a grain to do with things of the Spirit! What would you say if I declared that that is the condition that prevails largely in Christendom today, especially in the charismatic world?" - Art Katz

“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

‎"It's hard for a lazy person to get saved, and if a lazy person is saved we know that he will have no reward in heaven" - D.L. Moody

"Easy-believism deforms the church from a body of true believers into a group of carnal men who profess God, but deny Him by their deeds." - Paul Washer

"Millions are convinced of their salvation because one time they prayed the sinner's prayer. However, they remain unchanged by the Gospel." - Paul Washer

"All who confess their sinful estate, and throw themselves on Christ will be pardoned, justified, and reconciled to God. This is the Gospel." - Paul Washer

"Terror accomplishes no real obedience. Suspense brings forth no fruit unto holiness. No gloomy uncertainty as to God’s favor can subdue one lust, or correct our crookedness of will. But the free pardon of the cross uproots sin, and withers all its branches. Only the certainty of love, forgiving love, can do this." - Horatius Bonar

The Word did not become a philosophy, a theology, or a concept to be discussed or debated or pondered. But the Word became a person to be followed, loved, and enjoyed.

Quote from a Christmas card.

98% Say, "God is Good!" - "The Bible. Through this single, stand-alone record of God's revelation to man, we learn as much about our utter depravity as we do about God's absolute goodness. There are many who confess God's absolute goodness, assuming that such a confession will give them His approval. To the contrary, His real favor is realized when we begin to confess our utter depravity." - Mark Case

"God's fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire!" - Frank Bartleman

‎"Oh that in me the sacred fire might now begin to glow. Burn up the dross of base desire, and make the mountains flow. Oh Thou, who at Pentecost did fall, do Thou my sins consume. Holy Ghost, on Thee I call, Spirit of burning, Come." -Charles Wesley

"Take thy first walk with God! Let Him go forth with thee; by stream, or sea, or mountain path, Seek still His company." - Horatius Bonar

"God's preachers lived and laboured and preached like men on whose lips the immortality of thousands hung." - Horatius Bonar

"When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city." - Charles Finney

"When a lesser Gospel is preached, the church fills up with carnal men. The maintenance of such men is a heavy burden upon the church." - Paul Washer

Heb 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

"If we would not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, we must remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ: "Diligently study the Scriptures." Ignorance of the Bible is the root of all error. Knowledge of the Bible is the best antidote against modern heresies."

- J.C. Ryle

"Before the world, aye, before the sleepy, lukewarm, faithless, namby-pamby christian world, we will dare to trust our God, we will venture our all for Him, We will live and we will die for Him, And we will do it with His joy unspeakable singing aloud in our hearts." - C.T. Studd

"If we habitually sin in order to get something or because we cannot have something, chances are, we're worshiping that thing" - Stuart Scott

"The Gospel should not be 'repackaged' to fit what culture deems relevant. The Gospel is relevant because it is God’s eternal Word to all men." - Paul Washer

"A believer in a hovel is happier than a worldling in a palace!...We are not of the world--we do not have our portion here." - Thomas Brooks

"Adversity is the divine sandpaper God uses to smooth out the saints."
Harold Vaughan

"Leadership requires courage to stand alone for the truth when everyone else falls away." - K.P. Yohannan

"Crucifed Messiah's did not make sense in jewish theology." - Jimmy Humphrey

‎"There is no power in prayer without purity in heart." - T.V Thomas

"Young people come to our churches and what are they seeing?) I went to a church not along ago-- they got thirty acres.They want their own football field and tennis courts. Dear God, do children go to church to learn to play tennis? God help the preachers! Why can't we get them spiritual so they want prayer and revelation and the Word of the Living God. The young people come inside the church but there's no glory." - Leonard Ravenhill

"Now is not the time for the mincing of words. It is not the time for bashful men to be behind the pulpit – men who have more fear of men than of God. Today is not the day for reminiscing about the past nor for dreaming about the future, though the hope of tomorrow should still shine in our hearts. No, now is not the time for shallow men to stand behind pulpits, when they should be sitting and listening from the back pew. It is not the time for feeding baby food to those who have called themselves by His name for decades, but who are still spiritual toddlers. We have had enough of that! Too much!" - Mark S. Case

“Great cathedrals and costly houses of worship dazzle our eyes and stir the wonder of the passerby; mighty throngs stream through their aisles every Sabbath; and yet there is a situation that chills the hearts of many of God’s wisest servants. It is a good time to inquire, ‘Where is the Lord God of Elijah?’” - Rev. E. K. Cox, 1929

"Casting off sin, setting the goal of knowing Jesus, He is my True Friend, my Liberator, and my Peace." - Chris Haley

"He gave me a great fortune, placed thousands and millions at credit, but He gave a cheque-book with this one condition, "You never can draw more than you need at the time." Every time a cheque was wanted, however, there was the name of Jesus upon it, and so it brought more glory to Him, kept His name before the heavenly world and God was glorified in His Son. " - A. B. Simpson

"It would not be a wasted life to give oneself entirely to the pursuit of knowing the glory of the Gospel and making its glory known." - Paul Washer

"Some of you don't need more light from God. You need to become serious about obeying the light he's already given you. We probably should call a moratorium on all preaching across the nation for six months, and just fast and pray. Why should God say anything new to us when we're not obeying what he's already shown us and we're not walking in the light he's given us?" - Leonard Ravenhill

"We need a fresh understanding of the lostness of men. There are few who seem to care. Millions have still never heard his name after two thousand years of church history." - Leonard Ravenhill

"Answer God all you theologians reasoning out my theology. Just answer God. Are you pure in heart?" - Keith Daniel

"A saint’s life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer...Entrust yourself to God's hands." - Oswald Chambers

"Contentment in Christ & biblical community will help keep you from the quicksand of finding your identity in what you do." - Shai Linne

"You know as much of the Truth as you are willing to practice -- and no more." - E Stanley Jones

"When people lose the guidance of God they will turn to anything for guidance." - E Stanley Jones

"I would rather you get mad at me and go to heaven."

- Carter Conlon

"This so called love gospel today, only reaches the flesh. It can't get to the heart."

- David Wilkerson

"But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his 'own' lust, and enticed."

- James

"Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee."

- David

"So then 'faith' cometh by hearing, and hearing 'by' the Word of God."

- Paul

"The world behind me, the Cross before me...O take the whole world but give me Jesus...No turning back, no turning back!" - S. Sundar Singh

‎"Be prepared for the hostility of the gates of hell. Put on the whole armor of God. The weapons of our warfare have been tried by millions of poor sinners like ourselves, and have never been found to fail. Be patient under the bitterness of the gates of hell. It is all working together for your good. It tends to sanctify. It keeps you awake. It makes you humble. It drives you nearer to the Lord Jesus Christ. It weans you from the world. It helps to make you pray more. Above all, it makes you long for heaven, and say with heart as well as lips, 'Come, Lord Jesus.' "
~ J.C. Ryle

Popular opinion does not constitute truth. "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it". (Mat 7:13-14 KJV) ~ Ann Blaha

"Preaching without FIRE is spreading death." - G.W. North

"I find one common denominator among the most devout Christians in history. The glory of the Gospel kindled their passion and drove them on." - Paul Washer

"In my opinion most Christians in the West look and sound so close to the real thing, but they are not disciples of Christ. We can discern the tree by the fruit. There is lots of worldiness, business thinking, division, lack of forgiveness and bitterness in the western church. And the prevalence of "Christian" education only adds to the lukewarmness. We need to pray that Christians in the West will first truly get saved!" - Joseph Chavady

‎"I have found in my experience that if I want revival to continue on a daily basis, on an hourly basis, I have to deal with those things that God shows me. Revival to me is a right relationship with God and with others." - Frieda Hait

"God is not looking for better methods or systems, but people who are available and say YES to His leading and will give up all for his sake." - K.P. Yohannan

"Unless we see our own failures, we will never be able to deal biblically with the failures of others. Unless we are willing to be honest about our own sins, we will always distort and over react to the sins of others. Thankfully, the Holy Spirit is with us to reveal our own needy hearts."
Ewrin Lutzer

"Let us determine that we will no longer carry offences which have hindered our walk with God. In letting God free us we discover we can free others in order that the name of Christ be honored in our churches and families." - Ewrin Lutzer

"The dearest idol I have known, whatever that idol be, help me to tear it from Thy throne, and worship only Thee." - William Cowper

"A godly leader know that if the end is to be godly, the means must be godly." - K.P. Yohannan

"Our generation is so closely connected due to technology. What does this do? Well it often hinders us from taking refuge in the Lord. When depression and loneliness start to creep in, where do you run? Do you make a call on the cell phone? Do you run to man or to God? To music? or to the one who knows the number of hairs on your head? What we need is not more socializing with man but more intimacy with God." - James Malachi Jennings

"We are not on this journey for a picnic, we are here for the glory of God and the souls of men." - Carter Conlon

"The Devil is looking for co-workers across the world - who will speak the truth in the spirit of the accuser. "- Zac Poonen

‎"Worldliness, in the eyes of the Lord, is an unwillingness to surrender to the Lordship of Jesus Christ." -David Wilkerson

The North American Church has leanness in its soul. By world standards, the church in North America is incredibly wealthy in financial things, but weak and malnourished in the “joy and manifest presence of the Lord.” - James MacDonald

"Still faithful to our God, And to our Captain true, We follow where He leads the way, The Kingdom still in view." - Horatius Bonar

"If you have ever had the vision of God, you may try as you like to be satisfied on a lower level, but God will not let you" - Oswald Chambers

"True and enduring passion comes from a personal and intimate knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit!" - Paul Washer

"Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves." - John Flavel

"Although 92% of Americans claim to believe in the Bible. Only 9% are biblical Christians." - Barna Group

"Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life." - Leonard Ravenhill

“Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?” - K.P. Yohannan

“The most crucial question for each of us is this: Are we prepared for eternity?” - K.P. Yohannan

"When the devil is attacked, he weeps and talks of love." -Martin Luther

"I want nothing for myself but everything for the Lord." - Watchman Nee (written in his bible cover)

"God will be no man's debtor." - Oswald J. Smith

"Preaching must continually show not that Jesus is the means to prosperity but that he is better than prosperity." - John Piper

"When was the last time we sought the Lord to empower us to serve Him, so we would not rely on our strength." - K.P. Yohannan

"Fall down and learn that when you are utterly helpless, God will come to work in you not only to will, but to do." - Andrew Murray

"A Christian who does not pray is like prince in beggars clothes who stands but a few inches from His father's throne and yet does not ask." - Paul Washer

"Godly leadership is more about heart than skill, more about your walk with God than knowledge, more about character than power." - K.P. Yohannan

"The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honored for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything - we have all the rest." - A.W. Tozer

"Each of us has a mission to fulfill in winning the lost world and building God’s kingdom.” - K.P. Yohannan

‎"In order to help man or solve the tremendous problems that face him, you must change his nature. None of the visionary projects of this age can do that" - William MacDonald

"There are four different planes of power - the lowest is the physical, above that is the mental, above that is the moral, and above all is the spiritual. It is only when a man moves on the Spiritual level that he has power with God. It is because too many ministers and Christian workers are content to live upon the intellectual level or upon the moral plane, that their work is impotent to touch the mighty stronghold of Satan. The first question, therefore, to put to every Christian worker is: on what level are you working; on what level are you living? For if you are speaking on anything less than the Spirit level, you should know that your life will be largely a failure." - F.B. Meyer

"The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world." - A.W. Tozer

"The world and its 'nothings' are often a sad snare to God's saints...Live for eternity! Let go your hold upon the world!" - Mary Winslow

"God tests us to the breaking point of our abilities and resources so we will learn to trust in the Lord instead of ourselves" - Chuck Smith

"A leader cannot abandon the people God has given him by just running ahead towards some vision or goal. A leader leads by bringing with him the people God has entrusted to him." - K.P. Yohannan

"Just as we believe that He saves us...so we must believe that He accepts us when we come to Him as living sacrifices." - William MacDonald

"A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story."
- K.P. Yohannan

"Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?"
- K.P. Yohannan

"Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man." - D.L. Moody

""Remember when your heart used to burn within you for God's glory?" - Derek Melton

"Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field." - Vance Havner

"Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart." - William Gurnall

"Stop waiting to hear what God's will for your life is. Instead do what's written in His word everyday. That's His will for your life." - James Miller Jr.

"Never be discouraged. Study the word. The enemy wants to take your "courage" from you. Don't let him. Keep your joy by keeping your eyes on the victory. We can't lose. See Heb. 12:11-13." - Ray Comfort

"The more worldly and distorted images we see, the less we are able to believe in Him who is unseen." - Mark Hamby

"Impassioned preaching has gone out of style. Most think it lacks the sophistication needed to be effective in this modern era." - Paul Washer

"Eliezer could not eat until he delivered Abraham's message. The preacher cannot rest until he delivers the Message entrusted to him!" - Paul Washer

"A man of God has little time for quaint stories and moral antidotes. He must preach! He cannot rest until the people have heard from God!" - Paul Washer

"God’s callings are His enablings." - Joseph S. Carroll

"the life that fears to come to the light lest any deed should be reproved, can never know the..privileges of walking in the light" Havergal

"I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept that we humans can choose to accept Christ only because we need Him as Saviour and that we have the right to postpone our obedience to Him as Lord as long as we want to... The truth is that salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred scripture... Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility."

~ The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The fullness of the Spirit: "is to be maintained under obedience and deep dependence on Him from whom it came." - Andrew Murray

"To the one who is advanced enough to hear it I would say, never let anyone become necessary to you... never attach yourself to any man as a parasite. Adopt no man as a guru... I repeat, never let any man become necessary to you. Christ alone is necessary. Apart from Him we are completely wretched; without Him we cannot live and dare not die."

From "The Warfare Of The Spirit" by A.W. Tozer

"Saints not only desire to love and speak truth with their lips, but they seek to be true within; they will not lie even in the closet of their hearts, for God is there to listen; they scorn double meanings, evasions, equivocations, white lies, flatteries, and deceptions." - Charles Spurgeon

"Anything Lord, Anything it takes to bring me down from those high places." - Paul Washer

"God is trying to educate us in inner martyrdom and we won't have it, we get tired of being educated spiritually."

~ Oswald Chambers

"All God's giants have been weak men, who did great things for
God because they believed that God would be with them." - Hudson Taylor

"To be in His presence, under His love, under His eye, is heaven wherever it is.” - Robert Murray McCheyne

"Think of God in His infinite majesty, His altogether incomprehensible glory, His unapproachable holiness, sitting on a throne of grace, waiting to be gracious, inviting, encouraging you to pray with His promise: "Call upon Me, and I will answer thee" (Jeremiah 33:3).

Think of yourself in your nothingness and helplessness as a creature; in your wretchedness and transgressions as a sinner; in your feebleness and unworthiness as a saint. But think of how you are not left to yourself, and what you can accomplish. God has united you with Christ; in Him and His Name you have your confidence."

- Andrew Murray

"Lord Jesus, make us great proficients in the school of thy cross. I have put my soul, as a blank, into the hands of Jesus Christ my Redeemer, and desired him to write upon it what he pleases. I know it will be his own image." - George Whitefield

"Be much in secret prayer. When you are about the common business of life, be much in ejaculatory prayer. Send, from time to time, short letters post to heaven, upon the wings of faith. They will reach the very heart of God, and will return to you loaded with blessings." - George Whitefield

"Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine... Heir of salvation, purchase of God, Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood." - Fanny Crosby

"To build a local church as the Body of Christ is as impossible as a virgin giving birth.It can be done only through the Holy Spirit's power." - Zac Poonen

"Be much in secret prayer." - George Whitefield

When we become 'dead to the world' we become alive in Christ, and He becomes alive in us." - Leslie Ludy

"the bottom line is that the area of worldly entertainment, for most young Christians, has an unhealthy strangle-hold upon us" - Leslie Ludy

"If we are wise, we will live for God and eternity..and will care nothing for the honor and glory of this world." - D.L. Moody

"Money can hire workers. Universities can give learning. Congregations may elect. Bishops may ordain. But the Holy Spirit alone can make ministers of the Gospel." - J.C. Ryle

"Whitewashing the pump won’t make the water pure." - D. L. Moody

"Dear friend, if the Spirit of God has regenerated your heart there will be evidence..if there's no evidence, you are not born again" - Paul Washer

"What makes men partial in religion is, that they seek themselves, and not God" - Jonathan Edwards

"Be true to Him who loved you, and washed you from your sins in His own blood...It is the least that you can do for Him." - Horatius Bonar

"So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man. ( Acts 24:16) -- We must always consider this verse. Are we 'always' taking pains to have a clear conscience? May God help us to do such, the world is watching our lives, may they be a powerful testimony of true salvation and never of hypocrisy." - James Malachi Jennings

"It is sad to us that some people have never heard the voice of the Shepherd. His voice is as tender as a lullaby and as strong as the wind and as mighty as the sound of many waters... Thank God for those in the churches who would rather hear the voice of Jesus than to hear the voice of the greatest preacher or the best singer in the world.
Thank God for those who would rather be conscious of the Divine Presence than to be in the presence of the greatest man in the world."

~ A.W. Tozer

‎"God is the God of revival but man is the human agent through whom revival is possible." - Duncan Campbell

"While the whole world was condemning One, that One was hanging on the cross for the whole world." - K.P. Yohannan

"The majority view is that we must distance ourselves from biblical preaching because it just looks foolish to the world! This is rubbish!" - Paul Washer

"The fear of the Lord is almost completely absent from American Christianity. I believe this is largely because most professing Christians have never really seen God for who He truly is." - Israel Wayne

"Apart from the Spirit, a sinner cannot appreciate the Word any more than than a pig can love pearls, or a blind man can admire a Rembrandt." - Paul Washer

"If carnal men are to be converted, we must preach to them the very message they do not want to hear, and the Spirit must work!" - Paul Washer

‎"All truth belongs to God, whether it is common to man or a special revelation from Scripture" - C.J.D.

‎"A guy preaches and gets voted Top 100 Pastors in the World. Jesus preaches and gets the Cross. Well, what does that tell you?" -W. Willimon

“At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the
sturdiest trees are found.” -Hudson Taylor.

"Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was
somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out
that without God he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years
discovering how a nobody with God can be a somebody."
~Dwight L. Moody.

"When I first became a Christian, about fourteen years ago, I thought that I could do it on my own, by retiring to my rooms and reading theology, and wouldn't go to the churches and Gospel Halls;.... I disliked very much their hymns which I considered to be fifth-rate poems set to sixth-rate music. But as I went on I saw the merit of it. I came up against different people of quite different outlooks and different education, and then gradually my conceit just began peeling off. I realized that the hymns (which were just sixth-rate music) were, nevertheless, being sung with devotion and benefit by an old saint in elastic-side boots in the opposite pew, and then you realize that you aren't fit to clean those boots. It gets you out of your solitary conceit." - C.S. Lewis

“Imitate the donkey in his love for his master" -St. Chrysostom

"We please Him most not by frantically trying to make ourselves good but by throwing ourselves into His arms with all our imperfections." - A.W. Tozer

‎"Once we realize that evangelism occurs in the realm of the miraculous, we can start praying more faithfully, trusting more wholeheartedly, and proclaiming more gently. When we relinquish trust in our ability to persuade and latch onto God’s power to save, we find hope beyond explanation." - Randy Newman

‎"Daily we must come to Him to be refreshed and restored. Just like the Israelites needed to gather the manna daily, we need spiritual refilling daily." K.P. Yohannan

"Nothing is higher than humbleness, and nothing is lower than boastfulness" - St. Chrysostom.

"We can begin each day with the deeply encouraging
realization, I’m accepted by God, not on the basis of my
personal performance, but on the basis of the infinitely
perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ." - John Owen

"Every new trend seems to chip away at our Christian heritage. Behind it all is Satan, the prince of this world. Bit by bit he is undermining Holy Scripture, including the commandments themselves, dismissing them as irrelevant. But if you discard part of the Word of God, you lose the eternal life it offers." - Basilea Schlink

"A saint’s life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer...Entrust yourself to God's hands." - Oswald Chambers

‎"I look upon all the world as my parish" - John Wesley

"Those indoctrinated with materialism find it hard to believe that perfect love casts out fear." - Bill Bathman

“Great cathedrals and costly houses of worship dazzle our eyes
and stir the wonder of the passerby; mighty throngs stream through
their aisles every Sabbath; and yet there is a situation that chills
the hearts of many of God’s wisest servants. It is a good time to
inquire, ‘Where is the Lord God of Elijah?’” - Rev. E. K. Cox, 1929

“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.

"Think what Christ could accomplish through our churches—and in our lives—if we would accept such commitment and sacrifice as the means to victory! What is the result when a church joyfully decides to be satisfied with a modest building and simply the essentials, instead of spending millions on a palace of comfort and prestige, and then uses the money to help reach those who have never heard the Gospel before? And all out of love for Christ? I believe they discover that their sacrifice brings them greater joy sitting in a simple church than they could ever experience in the most costly building." - K.P. Yohannan

"As the Apostles took the Gospel into all the world, it caused them to regard suffering, agony and even martyrdom as privileges." - K.P. Yohannan

"If God is with you, He will bless you in your new step - as He blessed Martin Luther, John Wesley, William Booth, Watchman Nee and many others in many lands, through the centuries, who left their original churches and started new ones, under the direction of God. If, however, you are acting in your own stubbornness, and God is not with you, you will find yourself following in the footsteps of Theudas and Judas of Galilee (Acts 5:36,37) and many thousands of others in these twenty centuries of Christianity, who started new movements and ended up in confusion and frustration finally." - Zac Poonen

O Breath of Life, come sweeping through us;
Revive Thy Church with Life and Power.
O Breath of Life, come cleanse, renew us,
And fit Thy Church to meet this hour.
O Wind of God, come bend us, break us,
Till humbly we confess our need;
Then in Thy tenderness remake us,
Revive, restore, for this we plead.
O Breath of Love, come breathe within us,
Renewing thought and will and heart;
Come, Love of Christ, afresh to win us,
Revive Thy Church in every part.
O Heart of Christ, once broken for us'
'Tis there we find our strength and rest;
Our broken contrite hearts now solace,
And let Thy waiting Church be blest.
Revive us, Lord! Is zeal abating
While harvest fields are vast and white?
Revive us, Lord, the world is waiting,
Equip Thy Church to spread the Light.

Mrs. B.P. Head

“Great sermons lead the people to praise the preacher. Good
preaching leads the people to praise the Saviour.” ~ Charles Finney

“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough
to forget himself entirely while doing God’s work; for He will not
give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument
the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.” - A. B. Simpson

'I walked up and down in the moonlight, praying aloud in the silence, until prayer was turned to praise. There was no longer any question. Committing myself to God for whatever might be His purpose, I decided to stay on in my field. . . I should very , very much like a wider circle of intercessors. . .I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God. I willnot, by God's grace, let anything deter me from going straight ahead in the path to which He leads, but I shall feel greatly strengthed if I know of a definite company of pray-ers holding me up. I am confident that the Lord is going to do a work, sooner or later, among the Lisu here.' - J.O. Fraser

"You grieve the Spirit when you do not follow his leadings. You remember when Christ was on earth, he said to his disciples, 'Follow me.' He would have been grieved if they had not followed him. It is so with the other Comforter; he leads us to the wilderness - he sometimes causes groanings within us. Do you resist prayer time? Then you grieve the Spirit. Do you go into temptations against the strivings of your conscience? Then you grieve the Spirit. When he sees you run into temptation, he warns you - he pricks your heart, and yet you go. Ah! in this way you grieve the Spirit." - Robert Murray Mcheyne

"God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages." - A.B. Simpson

"God never leads anyone anywhere for money." - Jack Hyles

"A fish only has liberty in the water.
A bird only has liberty in the air.
You, a child of God, only have liberty in Holiness.
You were created for it."
- Dean Taylor