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"If Almighty God has given a command, then even if it is given only once in Scripture, that is sufficient. The importance of a command is determined by the importance of the Person Who gave it." - Zac Poonen

‎"Seeing what the unregenerate heart can scheme up, we as believers should know that our own heart is deceitful and desperately wicked and will do the same for us save for the grace of God which is alive in us as we abide in Him and He in us." - Charles Audette

"How many manage to skirt the cross, thus missing out on its dynamic, its unique power, and its strange triumph? (It costs little to wear a cross on a string around your neck ... or put it in your theology book.)
How many Christians today let the cross define their lifestyles—or live lives branded with cross-wounds, if you please? And how many manage to skirt the cross, thus missing out on its dynamic, its unique power, and its strange triumph?" - Arlin Weaver

“Why do we idolise Christian singers and speakers? We go from
glorifying musicians in the world to glorifying Christian musicians.
It’s all idolatry!…Satan is getting a great victory as we seem to
worship these ministers on tapes and records and clammer to get their
autographs in churches and concert halls from coast to coast.”
- Keith Green

"Paul never glamorized the gospel! It is not success, but sacrifice!
It's not a glamous gospel ,but a bloody gospel, a gory gospel, and a
sacrificial gospel! 5 minutes inside eternity and we will wish that we
had sacrificed more!!! Wept more, bled more, grieved more, loved more,
prayed more, given more!!!" - Leonard Ravenhill

Lord, I would recenter my spiritual life as Jacob does in this portion. Instead of Beth-el, he centers his experience on El beth-el – not the house of God but the God of that house. Often I feel compassion for Thy Church, because it is visible and can be physically apprehended, but I would not have that be my concern any longer. Lord, I want to be centering my interest on Thee, the God of God’s house.

… God, I pray, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life but a full one like Yours, Lord Jesus.

….Fill me, O Spirit of Christ, with all the fullness of God.

January 29, 1948, The Journals of Jim Elliot

"Nothing like the sin of pride unfits us for divine service." - Anne Dutton

"Those who do not understand the danger of the Gospel call, have heard its demands only faintly. Those who hear them, have trembling hearts." - Paul Washer

"His management of your crosses bring greatest advantages...by a light and momentary affliction, unto a weight of glory of eternal duration." - Anne Dutton

"Worldliness: it involves love for earthly things, esteem for earthly values, and preoccupation with earthly cares. Scripture plainly labels it sin - and sin of the worst stripe. It is a spiritual form of adultery that sets one against God Himself." - John MacArthur

"Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use." - George Muller

"If Jesus Christ is not Lord of all - He is not Lord at all."
- Denny Kenaston

"All we need in Christ, we shall find in Christ. If we want little, we
shall find little. If we want much, we shall find much. But if, in
utter helplessness, we cast our all on Christ, He will be to us the
whole treasury of God." - Henry Bejamin Whipple

““Is it not sad and intolerable hypocrisy that these poor people [the Lutherans] boast of having the Word of God, of being the true, Christian church, never remembering that they have entirely lost their sign of true Christianity? Although many of them have plenty of everything, go about in silk and velvet, gold and silver, and in all manner of pomp and splendor, … they allow many of their own poor and afflicted members to ask for alms. [They force] the poor, the hungry, the suffering, the elderly, the lame, the blind, and the sick to beg for bread at their doors. Oh preachers, dear preachers, where is the power of the Gospel you preach? … Where are the fruits of the Spirit you have received?” - Anabaptist 16th century

"Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool." - R.A. Torrey

"Oh, if only more believers remembered that as it is written, we have no lasting city here, but we are waiting for the one to come, that 'God has prepared for those that love Him!'" - Brandy Leigh

"Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy
Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men."
-David Brainerd

"If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road,
I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at
all." - David Livingstone

"So fatherhood is a person who has become liberated from his own concerns and he is now contributing to the concerns of others. He knows Him that is from the beginning. God doesn’t live for Himself. God is the everlasting Servant of His own creation in infinite grace, an endless stream of Self-giving. God isn’t concerned about Himself, is He? In His infinite grace He is concerned about us. And so, to know Him that is from the beginning is to have His exact character, and to have that by nature. That is the third stage, the fatherhood out of which flows the power and the grace and the life to others." - Norman Grubb

Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way. (James 1:2-4 Msg)

‎"Are you living for the day or are you living for life eternal? Are you going to care for the opinion of men here, or for the opinion of God? The opinion of men won't avail us much when we get before the judgment throne. But the opinion of God will. Had we not, then, better take His word and implicitly obey it?" - C.T. Studd

"God's program for reviving His people is definite and clear. First Elijah repaired the altar of Jehovah that was thrown down. That is the place to begin. All the ruin that sin has wrought must be cleared away by confession. Things must be made right with God; restitution must be made where it is due. Unless this is done definitely and thoroughly, prayer for reviving is vain. Too many are praying today without repairing the altar by confession of sin, without digging a trench of separation from the world and without a surrender that is even unto death. No wonder such prayer is fruitless." - Andrew Gih

"Revival cannot be organized" - G. Campbell Morgan

"You will do more in 1 year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in 50 years apart from Him." - Smith Wigglesworth

"A true convert does not receive the Gospel as an addition to his previous life but in exchange for it. To receive one is to lose the other." - Paul Washer

"Godliness is a process that God brings about in our life as we choose His will over our own." - K.P. Yohannan

"When God puts up job postings for His Church, He doesn’t look at qualifications or experience; He looks at character." - Santosh Poonen

"It’s significant that the Church’s first martyr was someone with a hidden practical ministry – serving food to widows (Acts 6:1-5)." - Santosh Poonen

"We should lovingly and compassionately expose the unbeliever's entire life as vanity apart from Jesus Christ and His Gospel." - Paul Washer

"Jesus is not a minor accessory that we receive in order to dress up our life or improve it. He is our life; apart from Him we have nothing." - Paul Washer

"Anything is a blessing which makes us pray." - C.H. Spurgeon

"When we read the Scriptures we need to read them to obey God's commandments." - Zac Poonen

"Oh beloved, if God could be put into a box and everything uttered. God would not be God. Don't try, accept there is a reason for both doctrines." - Keith Daniel

"The more you serve Him the more reasons you have to sing amazing grace. Not for what happened back there but just grace." - Keith Daniel

"Grace is gravely misunderstood and misinterpreted if it has no capacity for men's responsibility, otherwise cut half the Bible out." - Keith Daniel

"The unbeliever must be shown that all his achievements prior to Christ are monuments to his own vanity, made of sand, and quickly passing." - Paul Washer

"The Fear of the Lord is lost when a people no longer believe what God says." - Carter Conlon

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

"I dream of a church saturated with prayer and sold out utterly to Christ and ready to leave everything for His call." - John Piper

These wounds were meant to purchase me. These drops of blood were shed to obtain me." - Count Zinzendorf

"God’s graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime, but in hell, it is." - R.C. Sproul

"We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble." - C.H. Spurgeon

"Half a dozen men on their knees for 60 minutes waiting upon the Lord
with the absolute conviction that they have no answer, that their
human ideas and programmes are ineffective and bankrupt - they will
accomplish more than 50 men around a table discussing problems for a
whole year." - Alan Redpath

"There are two reasons we don't experience victory in our Christian walk. Either we don't know the truth or we aren't following it. John 8:32" - Bill Gothard

"There is always a more efficient way to do something. The more efficient we are, the more we conquer slothfulness." - Bill Gothard

"Getting worn out can be an indication they we are accepting responsibilities that God did not intend for us to have." - Bill Gothard

"So many times we desire the power that comes from Christ's resurrection, but we are not willing to put forth the effort to know Him." - Bill Gothard

"We are so prone to complain and murmur! When you come before the Lord this morning, bring a long list of things you have to be thankful for." - Bill Gothard

"History has shown that God's way of stirring up his people to great acts of love and mission has often been to draw together a small praying band who lay themselves open to him and get a vision for service. Where will the new works of mission and charity come from in our church, if not from holy brain-storming in small groups of zealous people?" - John Piper

"It is not just about obedience to the Word, but rather obedience to the Lord through what He has revealed through the Word." - K.P. Yohannan

"Inactivity is seen as the greatest activity in the plan of God. Spending time alone with the Lord is more important than all the activities we can do." - K.P. Yohannan

" \tPerhaps our greatest present need may be the coming of a prophet to dash the stones at the foot of the mountain and call the Church out to repentance or to judgment." - A.W. Tozer

"Confidence in Christ is admirable, but not effrontery and self-confidence. I am afraid of those people who are so very sure, so very confident all of a sudden, and yet have never felt the burden of sin. Be ashamed and be confounded while you lay hold on Christ, for the more He does for you the less you must think of yourself. You may very accurately measure the reality of your Grace by the reality of your self-loathing." - C.H. Spurgeon

"It is one of the most subtle wiles of the foe to get us occupied with superficial and surface concerns (e.g. book selling, language study, running mission-stations, report writing, correspondence, account-keeping, building, repairs, buying things, reading, etc., etc.,). The enemy is delighted to have us so occupied incessantly with secondary and trivial concerns, as to keep us from attacking and resisting (the devil's efforts).” James Fraser (Missionary in China with Hudson Taylor" James Fraser (Missionary in China with Hudson Taylor

"Prayer pulls the rope below, and the bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell for they pray so languidly. Others give an occasional pluck at the rope, but he who wins with heaven is the man who grabs the rope boldly and pulls continuously with all his might." - C.H. Spurgeon

"The first part of building a Godly home is to be a Godly person." - John Schmidt

"Do not even such things as are most bitter to the flesh, tend to
awaken Christians to faith and prayer, to a sight of the emptiness of
this world, and the fadingness of the best it yield?... How then can
we be offended at things by which we reap so much good?" - John Bunyan

"He who stands upon his own strength will never stand." - Thomas Brooks

"Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages
contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer;
residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the
daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart:
these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends
to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows
them to have a tremendous fall." - J.C. Ryle

"Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity." - Robert Murray McCheyne

"The end times will be times that try men’s souls as much or even more than the suffering of Job." - Oliver W. Price

"Let no day pass by without going through the OPEN DOOR of prayer to God. Seek the Lord daily and He will answer you daily." - Mother Basilea

“What road leads to true happiness? The road of submitting yourself completely to God.” – Basilea Schlink

“The servants of God are like victorious soldiers who struggle for the kingdom of God and fight against the kingdom of Satan. A soldier must be ready to submit himself and his everything in order to notch a victory. Follow in the footsteps of committed soldiers on the battlefront if you really want to become a faithful servant of God.” – Basilea Schlink

“Jesus loves you. Therefore, love Him! Nothing can separate you from His love, which is stronger than death and the hell.” – Basilea Schlink

“If you want the glory of God to be manifested in your ministry, you must willingly let God prepare you to enter the darkness of the night.” – Basilea Schlink

"The preacher must not only denounce the unsatisfying fodder of this age, but he must also point men to the true food which is Christ." - Paul Washer

"If you will not summit to its convicting edge and to its converting edge, then you will have to submit to its condemning edge. It is indeed a two-edged sword.
I think the true child of God wants God’s Word, regardless of what it may mean, regardless of what it may cost, regardless of how deeply it may cut. If you are a branch in the vine, you lay bare your breast, knowing that faithful are the wounds of a friend, and knowing that His Word can only purge and only purify, that there shall be more fruit." - Paris Reidhead

"What is the heart of your life? What consumes you? The glory of Jesus Christ? The Sovereignty of God's Son? I think if I could listen to you talk for twenty four hours I could pretty well say the depth of reality in your experience. What do you talk about? Do you talk about Christ? Do you talk about His Word? Do you talk about His truth? You talk about what is important to you." - Pastor Reidhead

"To be conquerors at the last, we shall have to fight with that trinity of enemies—the world, the flesh, and the devil." - Charles Spurgeon

"The old covenant was temporal and based on the works of man, but the New Covenant is everlasting and fulfilled through Christ's single sacrifice on the Cross. Don't try to earn your holiness or God's acceptance through works." - Gary Wilkerson

This I say, brethren, with great confidence, "The time is short! From now on, those who have wives—should live as if they had none; those who mourn—as if they did not; those who rejoice—as though they did not rejoice; those who buy something—as if it were not theirs to keep; those who use the things of the world—as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form," in all its schemes of affairs, in all its vain parade, all the futile farce of life, "is passing away!" And away let it pass—if we may at last obtain a better country; that is, a heavenly one! Which may God grant, for Jesus' sake! Amen. - Samuel Davies (1724–1761)

"We must take care how we live, for this is the only lifetime we shall have in which to settle the life that lasts for ever." - Spurgeon

"Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!" - Dwight L Moody

"There is a great famine in the land. Yet, in spite of multitudes running about looking for spiritual food, those who truly desire God’s Word comprise only a remnant (see Micah 7:14, 18). This is certainly as true today as it was in ancient Israel. Few Christians today truly hunger to hear the pure word of the Lord. Instead, the majority fatten themselves on Sodom’s apples, feeding on the straw of perverted gospels." - David Wilkerson

‎"We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth." - Andrew Murray

"They will exchange God, Christ, the gospel, heaven, and their souls--for a lust, for a little of the world's pleasures." - Thomas Brooks

“The hope of the coming of the Lord is the paramount motive given us in the New Testament for earnest, holy service here.” - J. Hudson Taylor

"I am convinced that nothing in the whole Christian religion is so rarely attained as a praying heart." - Charles Finney

"Ought we not to be more thorough in our service, not simply doing well that which will be seen and noticed, but as our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, so to do all that we can do, as under His eye, though no other eye ever takes notice of it?" - Hudson Taylor

"The whole earth is the Lord’s; men’s souls are His; I am debtor to all." - Count Zinzendorf

"Oh, man! Oh, woman! Oh, peoples of the earth whom God has made! Oh, nations of the world! -- Prepare to meet thy God! Give attention, with all your heart, to the one essential preparation that counts! We must give account to God at the Judgment. None can be excused. No one can have a substitute to speak for him or her at that great day." - W.C. Moore

“We must determine to act on His Word rather than on our own thoughts.” -K.P. Yohannan

"When the sacrifice of Jesus on Calvary becomes as bright as the sun in our minds, all our petty sacrifices will disappear like the stars in the daytime." - Zac Poonen

"At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done." - Thomas A Kempis

"Vanity of vanities and all is vanity, except to love God and serve Him alone." - Thomas A Kempis

‎"The servant of God who fears nothing but sin, is a man of princely mold." - C.H. Spurgeon

"Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less." - Billy Sunday

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

"Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity." - Brother Lawrence

"God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly
with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful,
the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago."
- Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929)

"The New Testament is filled with the evidence that God never intended to confine the outpouring of the Spirit to one historic day." - B.H. Clendennen

"A true man of God will die ten thousand deaths before he dies one final time." - Kevin Turner

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

"“But it is not enough that they (Western churches and Pastors) do not love those in captive nations and do nothing to win them for Christ. By their complacency, by their neglect, and sometimes by acting as actual accomplices, some Western church leaders strengthen the infidels in their infidelity. They help the Communists to intrude into Western churches and to win leadership in the churches of the world. They help Christians remain unaware of the danger of Communism. Western church leaders do not love their own flocks either, if they do not allow them to participate in the spiritual battle around the world.” - Richard Wumbrand

“We must give up routine work. It is written, “Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord deceitfully” (Jeremiah 48:10). The Church must wage a frontal, spiritual attack on the principalities in captive nations. Wars are won only by offensive, never by defensive, strategy.” - Richard Wumbrand

“Christ does not belong only to America, England, and other democratic countries. When He was crucified, one of His hands was stretched out toward the west, the other towards the east. He wishes to be the King not only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles, of the Communists, and of the Western world. Jesus said, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). He gave His blood for all, and all should hear and believe the gospel.” - Richard Wumbrand

"God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill." - William Gurnall

"Meditate long upon the Lamb of God. See Him through the Word of God. Glimpse the bloodied redeemer bearing the wrath of God. Who in obedience offered Himself as a perfect sacrifice to be your covering." - Kevin Turner

"It implies that this is their only work, that the only business they have on the earth is to glorify God in the world's conversion. They are to do or say nothing, and be nothing, more or less than is conducive to this end. To this their whole being, time, influence, and possessions are to be consecrated. In that solemn parting hour, Christ doubtless meant to give them His whole mind in these few last words; Go, apply yourselves directly to the conversion of the world, and finish the great work which I have begun. I have given you the example; let your eye too be single, and your devotion unwearied and entire." - Charles Finney

"Many are discouraged by the present and past attainments of Christians. They are constantly stumbled by the consideration that holy men of former and present times have known so little of full gospel salvation. They might just as reasonably let the past and present state of the world shake their confidence in the fact that the world will ever be converted. And indeed, whether they are aware of it or not, I suppose they have as much confidence in the one as in the other. They seem not to be aware of the fact that they are full of unbelief in regard to the world's conversion, while they are sensible that they have no confidence in the attainableness of rest from all their sins in this life.--The reason why they are sensible of unbelief in the one case and not in the other is, the one is placed before them as a present duty, in attempting to perform which they experience the chilling influence of unbelief--while the other is a thing which they have never tried to do, and which they do not understand to be their duty to do. Consequently a want of confidence in respect to this, is not the object of the mind's attention. Certainly a state of mind that can be discouraged by the past or present history of the Church, would of course feel the same discouragement, and have the same reason for discouragement, in regard to the world's conversion." - Charles Finney

"Then Jeremiah said, 'Lord, I don’t know how to speak.' It is amazing how God picks up people to be prophets who are not good at public speaking." - Zac Poonen

"O ye lovers of the Lord Jesus, take time daily in the inner chamber with Him anew to drink in His heavenly love. " - Andrew Murray

O Begin! Fix some part of every day for private exercises. . . . Whether you like it or no, read and pray daily. It is for your life; there is no other way: else you will be a trifler all your days. . . .Do justice to your own soul; give it time and means to grow. Do not starve yourself any longer.” - John Wesley

"Hell moves from below to meet you when you are headed toward it. It will stir up the dead for you and its prisoners will close in with taunting reproaches: 'We are heathens but we do not have any reason to blame God for this punishment, though we never heard of such a thing as the gospel. We damned our own souls by rebelling against every tiny ray of light God sent. But you - you rejected God's Word and had to break through every one of His promises to get to this place!" - William Gurnall

"There are men of God, but there are also men who are God's men. There is a place where you take hold of God, but there is a better place where God takes hold of you." - Smith Wigglesworth

"Deity indwelling men! . . . Man, who moved out of the heart of God by sin, now moves back into the heart of God by redemption. God, who moved out of the heart of man because of sin, now enters again His ancient dwelling to drive out His enemies and once more make the place of His feet glorious." - A.W. Tozer

"In a close and final sense no one can do God’s work. Nor does He turn His work over to others to do. He works in His people and through them, but always it is He who works." - A.W. Tozer

“It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.” — Elisabeth Elliot

"Christ's call is to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; He came not to call scoffers but sinners to repentance; not to build and furnish comfortable chapels, churches, and cathedrals at home in which to rock Christian professors to sleep by means of clever essays, stereotyped prayers, and artistic musical performances, but to capture men from the devil's clutches and the very jaws of Hell. This can be accomplished only by a red-hot, unconventional, unfettered devotion, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to the Lord Jesus Christ.” - C.T. Studd

"I cannot tell you what joy it gave me to bring the first soul to the Lord Jesus Christ. I have tasted almost all the pleasures that this world can give ... but those pleasures were as nothing compared to the joy that the saving of that one soul gave me." - C.T. Studd

"The best of man’s righteousness is so full of fallen flesh that
no man is worthy to unloose the latchet of Christ’s sandals. All
the righteousness of every redeemed soul for all eternity, even
that which has been produced by God’s grace through faith,
will still fall short of God’s glory in comparison to Jesus Christ.
He is altogether lovely and in His holy presence we must cry
out as Simon Peter, “Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O
Lord” (Luke 5:8)."- JON CARDWELL

"Do you live for His glory? For Him, for Him, for Him!!" - Paul Washer

The tragedy of “average” Christianity is the tragedy of being a spiritual pauper while sitting around the table of God's truth and not digesting the bounties from God's Hand.
Ralph Sutera - Lame Christians

"The more prosperous your ministry becomes the greater the danger you are in. Beginning to like Asa, no longer trusting and relying on God but begin to rely on devices and your schemes." - Chuck Smith

“If through faith you have placed your eternal destiny in the loving hands of Jesus Christ, you can be sure that God is at work, shaping the events and circumstances of your life into a beautiful mosaic that will reveal His Son to the men and women around you. His hand is on you, as it has been since before you were born.” - Chuck Smith

“God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works." - Chuck Smith

"The Church is the Body of Christ, and the Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. He fills the Body, directs its movements, controls its members, inspires its wisdom, supplies it's strength. He guides into truth, sanctifies its agents, and empowers for witnessing. The Spirit has never abdicated His authority nor relegated His power. Neither Pope nor Parliament, neither Conference nor Council is supreme in the Church of Christ. The Church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is College-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles. The Church that multiplies committees and neglects prayer may be fussy, noisy, enterprising, but it labors in vain and spends its strength for nought. It is possible to excel in mechanics and fail in dynamic. There is a super abundance of machinery; what is wanting is power. To run an organization needs no God. Man can supply the energy, enterprise, and enthusiasm for things human. The real work of a Church depends upon the power of the Spirit. The Presence of the Spirit is vital and central to the work of the Church. Nothing else avails. Apart from Him, wisdom becomes folly, and strength weakness. The Church is called to be a "spiritual house" and a holy priesthood. Only spiritual people can be its "living stones," and only the Spirit-filled its priests." Samuel Chadwick

‎"As long as Christian life remains our life we will not understand the Christ of the New Testament. You are not your own." - K.P. Yohannan

"We must follow the path of self-renunciation." - K.P. Yohannan

"If you want to serve your race, go where no one else will go, and do what no one else will do" - Mary Lyon

“Hate Sin! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.” - J.C. Ryle

"The fastest way to go to hell is down the center isle of the average church." - Leonard Ravenhill

"Missions should be a constant on our hearts and minds - it was for God and that's why Jesus came." - K.P. Yohannan

"Some of the churches that love the Gospel, 'love' it so much they don't want to share it." - James MacDonald

"The path of real prosperity will often lie through deepest suffering; followers of CHRIST may well be content with the path which He trod." - Hudson Taylor

"God uses many people and events to break our pride and our confidence in our own abilities and to make us small in our own eyes." - Zac Poonen

"We are so busy trying to build up the Church. But Jesus said upon this rock I will build My Church." - Chuck Smith

"I believe everything is wrong till God sets it right." - A.W. Tozer

"If our teaching of grace causes us to make light of sin, or to slight the requirements of the Savior, then we have not really understood either the monstrosity of our sin or the greatness of the heart that forgives it." - Bryan Chapell

"Where the will of God leads you, the grace of God will keep you." - Author Unknown

"The devil would gladly give a Bible to every man and promote obedience to its commands if in exchange we would surrender to him the Gospel." - Paul Washer

‎"God honors the Blood of His Son." - Sarah Foulkes Moore

"Lots of people want to be free from the Devil, from the dread of hell and from the fear of punishment, but do not want to be free from sin? Do you want to be free from sin or are you sure you don't want some of it because you like it? The tragedy of sin is that people love it." - G.W. North

"Top secret for genuine intimacy with your spouse: Spend the night alone with God, and intercede on her behalf. Saturate His throne with prayer on her behalf. If you are consumed by God, she will be consumed with you." - Kevin Turner

"Obedience is better esteemed with God than acquired knowledge, it is the most important lesson -fundamental to the gaining of all spiritual knowledge from God." - G.W North

“How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.” - C.T. Studd

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

"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

"Humility allows Christ’s life to be perfected in us. But pride, the opposite of humility, works death in us. To be exalted, honored and recognized was the desire of Lucifer. He was not content with what God had chosen for him so he decided to exalt himself: “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God” (Isaiah 14: 13). Because of this Lucifer fell, rejected by God because of the pride in his heart. All sin originated in pride and self-exaltation. But our salvation originated in Christ humbling Himself by His death on the cross." - K.P. Yohannan

"The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only for their own sake. For these self- centered individuals, the most precious things in the world is their "self." Like a cancer that eats and destroys its own cells, the self-centered individual is slowly dying inwardly." - K.P. Yohannan

"The reason that so many fail to attain the BLESSED LIFE is that there is some one point in which they hold back from God, and concerning which they prefer to have their own way and will rather than His. In this one thing they will not yield their will and accept God's; and this one little thing mars the whole, robs them of peace, and compels them to wander in the desert." - F.B. Meyer

"Fill your heart with God’s Word, meditate on it and put your faith in Jesus. And then, when you pray, believe like a little child and you will see your Heavenly Father meet your need." - K.P. Yohannan

“Have we armed ourselves with the willingness to suffer – to the same extent that Christ suffered for us when He was on earth?” - K.P. Yohannan

"Prophets are foundations for the church, holy stones, as it were, able to bear the weight of all that they support and all that is put upon them. What an investment, therefore, from God's point of view, in the attention to the details of their lives, in the preparation, shaping and making of them. That formation does not lend itself to nice, clean, systematical principles on how to become a prophet. It is full of blood and vomit, sweat and agony, humiliation and failing. For if a prophet is anything, he is a 'sent' one. God will not send anything that does not authentically represent Himself. Jesus said that if you receive a prophet, you receive Him. There is an unbroken continuum between the sent one and God himself. When someone, therefore, purports to be that which is 'sent' and is not, it is a statement about God that is false. We need deeply to recognize that. We are not talking about some fluky phenomenon, but the very foundation of the faith, which is God as God." - Art Katz

"I was reminded of the rich young ruler and God‘s call on his life. It is so easy for us to get caught up in the pleasures of life. I was challenged not to let what looks like an easier path get in the way of our relationship with Jesus Christ. Our hope, our peace and our joy lies in Him alone." - K.P. Yohannan

"Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have the eyes to see. Find your Calcutta." - Mother Theresa

"When church leadership attempts to fill their churches by following the ever-changing fads of cultural Christianity, it is not Jesus they are following, but inordinate human success." - Derek Melton

“The chief danger of the 20th Century will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.” — William Booth

"The Lord spoke this to me: The birth of My Church started out with mens weakness and My power and It's going to end that way." - Jeff Colon

"Today, the temporal and the trivial are exalted among God’s people and desired as though they were actually worthy of such affection." - Paul Washer

‎"My life is as an arrow passing through the air. I hang on the edge of an unchangable eternity" - John Wesley

It is strange that when God gives his children mercies, they generally set their hearts more on the mercies than on the Giver of them. But when the night comes, and he sweeps all the mercies away, then at once they each say, “Now, my God, I have nothing to sing of but thee; I must come to thee, and to thee only.” - Charles Spurgeon

"Do you want to know if you are really a servant of God? It is how you respond when you are treated like a servant." - Brian Long

"If you must preach the wrath and judgments of God, always leave enough time to preach Jesus as the way out. If you must preach about the faults and conduct of your saints, do it first. Then preach Jesus as the way out." - Theodore Fitch

"The whole world is populated by covenant-breakers." - R.C. Sproul

"Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be better men and women. Do not
pray for tasks equal to your strength, pray for strength equal to your
tasks." - Phillips Brooks

"Could it be that because so many Christians have become so materialistic, so career-conscious, that they have lost the vision of the judgement seat of Christ?" - David Legge

"Every individual in the Bible who really came through and was approved by the Lord didn’t get there because of his or her achievements. It was because of a close, personal relationship with the Lord." - K.P. Yohannan

‎"Whom do you think will go to the most dangerous and uncomfortable places in the world to preach the gospel? Products of the prosperity Gospel? I don't think so." ~John Piper

“The battle we face is a spiritual conflict. It must be fought and won by men and women of God who are willing to intercede for missionary families as they invade enemy territory held uncontested for centuries. Satan does not meekly give up his prey. He counterattacks fiercely in many unexpected ways. The missionary must have intercessors who stand alongside, praying on a regular and systematic basis.” - David Wang

“There is a fundamental difference between fruit and work. Work is the outcome of effort; fruit the life. A bad man may do good work, but a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.” - Hudson Taylor

‎"The fact remains, God can do little with those who love their lives or reputations." - C.T. Studd

‎"None but God is responsible for us financially." - C.T. Studd (speaking of the WEC missionary movement).

"In the midst of God's manifest presence, our fear of Him is outweighed by our fear that He will withdraw and we will be left with normality." - Paul Washer

"Regular and habitual communion with the Lord Jesus, is absolutely essential to growth in grace." - J.C. Ryle

"Continuously meditating on God’s Word drives it deep into our hearts and develops faith." - K.P. Yohannan

"I've seen more Christians destroyed by ambition than any other sin -
discontent in the heart, always pushing and jockeying - moving for
some new thing, some new position . . . It's not what we do, it's that
we do what we're called to do and that in it we glorify God."
- Carter Conlon

"Without Holy Spirit boldness, the world will remain unevangelised... there can never be a substitute for the power of the Spirit working through willing men and women, and that power will bring boldness." - George Verwer

"God is seeking men and women of reckless faith today...to be reckless in your faith does not mean to be unthinking, but the reverse - concentrated, single-minded in your concern that God should be glorified and souls won." - George Verwer

"The gate into the church must never be anything other than this - have you forsaken all to follow Jesus Christ?" - Santoosh Poonen

"We must learn to believe promises better than possessions." - J. C. Ryle

"Godly leadership is not fearful of people leaving, but rather it has a reverence and fear of God and His Holiness above all things." - K.P. Yohannan

“Alas, many false, delusive, disappointing christs; so I have to show that there are many make-believe, mock salvations, which only deceive, disappoint, and damn those who trust in them. As I walk about the world, and as I look at professing Christians, my soul cries: O God, make haste to help us raise up a holy people, in order to show the world what salvation really means, for they do not know. They are utterly befogged and bewildered, and I do not wonder.” - Catherine Booth

"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?" - David Livingstone

"We are all more influenced by the course of this age than we recognize. What once was black and white, has now conveniently faded to gray." - Paul Washer

"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

"Who starts a revolution with come and die, Jesus! The entry point is death and the exit point is a fulfilled life that is eternal. Grab it hear but lose it there. Your best life is yet to come and true faith sees it in the distance and counts everything else, as but dung." - Kevin Turner

"If we stand or sit,we may fall. But never when we are flat on our face. So keep your face in the dust before God ALWAYS and be a WORSHIPPER." - Zac Poonen

"The making of peace is sometimes a thankless office, and it is the lot of him who parts a fray, to have blows on both sides; yet it is a good office, and we must be forward to it. Some think that this is intended especially as a lesson for ministers, who should do all they can to reconcile those who are at variance, and to promote Christian love among those under their charge." - Matthew Henry

“Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.” - Amy Carmichael

‎"The chief end of marriage is holiness; not happiness. Marriage is a reflection of Christ's union with his church." - Derek Melton

"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 (1674-1748)

"The gift of salvation through the blood of God’s own Son should be enough to fill our hearts to overflowing for an eternity of eternities." - Paul Washer

"If you can play the games of religion and sleep at night while two thousand million perish that never heard His name it would be better that you were never been born." - B.H. Clendennen

"God's people ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give themselves as an offering." - A.W. Tozer

"The sweetest part... is the rest which full identification with Christ brings. I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize this; for He, I know is able to carry out His will, and His will is mine. It makes no matter where He places me, or how." - Hudson Taylor

‎"A man's greatest and highest goal in life is to enjoy intimate communion with Christ." - Phillip Keller

"Every thought not centered in Christ and for Christ is a wasted moment and a grievous sin." - Paul Washer

"If your church isn't winning souls, I hope you go out of business" - Tommy Barnett

"It is possible to be full of Christian works without the Life and the Love being there." - T. Austin Sparks

"Christianity really is something that only God can do! It rests upon a work that no man can do and that is to give Life to the dead." - T. Austin-Sparks

"A holy character does not prevent temptation--Jesus was tempted. When Satan tempted Christ, it was like striking sparks on water; yet the enemy continued his evil work. Now, if the devil goes on striking when there is no result, how much more will he do it when he knows what inflammable stuff our hearts are made of."- C.H. Spurgeon

"Pure and undefiled religion is fueled by this one great truth – He shed His own blood for our souls." - Paul Washer

"If our body lay rotting on a dung heap, and our name was slandered by all, we would still have reason to praise Him because of Calvary." - Paul Washer

Take your eyes off the vain things of the world. Look not back on old lovers, but delight yourselves in Christ alone, who is your exceeding rich reward, your satisfying and everlasting portion. TAKE HIM WITH YOU. O He is sweet company! and He "will never leave you, nor forsake you." Yea, in the time of your greatest trouble He will be most near you, and in your greatest distresses He will be most kind. Be careful of nothing but how to please Him, and to honour Him in all places whither you may be scattered." - James Renwick (To Banished Christians from Scotland; 1687)

"One test of spirituality: Can you rejoice wholeheartedly when you see someone younger than you being more blessed and used by God than you?" - Zac Poonen

"Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying." - Paul E. Billheimer

"To those in leadership positions, consider this: Sometimes it's hard to worship when you're used to being worshiped." - David Ford

"If we don't wait on the Holy Spirit to teach us, we can grow cold and fall out of communion with God even while having devotions every day." - Jim Cymbala

"Live for the approval of others and you will not live for Christ’s approval—and you will not endure." - Randy Alcorn

"Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men... Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!" - C.H. Spurgeon

"If you want to learn to be a good leader; find a godly leader, serve under them faithfully and follow them closely." - K.P. Yohannan

"We are called to be witnesses, not lawyers and judges." - Matthew Barnett

"The miracle of the loaves and the fishes was in the breaking. Everything that God uses, He first has to break." - Jim Cymbala

"The most humble man on the earth is the one that looks to jesus the most." - Greg Gordon

"Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us." - Arthur W. Pink

"It is worth shutting ourselves away from every lesser endeavor and inferior pleasure in order to explore the depths of the Gospel of Jesus." - Paul Washer

"We have been too long considering ourselves something when God needs nothing to work with." - Carter Conlon

"Pharisees see people as sinners condemned under law. Prophets see people as sinners who can be transformed by God's Word." - David Yeghnazar

"No circumstances are so dire that they can't produce hymns of joy and thanks on the lips of those who know their God." - Nancy Leigh DeMoss

"When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over." - George Carey

‎"If Christ is the center of my life, that is the proof that I am filled with the Holy Spirit" - Zac Poonen

‎"You will never fulfill Gods plan for your life if you remain the center of your own life." - Zac Poonen

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” - Francis Chan

“Lukewarm living and claiming Christ’s name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.” - Francis Chan

“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

"Satan tries to use fear to drive a wedge between you and God. But we have fellowship with God and perfect love casts out all fear." - Jim Cymbala

"Our pride can cause us to act artificially, keeping us from openly worshipping and loving Jesus." - Jim Cymbala

"The deadliest Pharisaism to-day is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality." - Oswald Chambers

"God is not merely the omnipotent creator and ruler of the universe. He is also Abba Father, the most tender, loving Dad anyone could have." - Jim Cymbala

"We must not fall away from our primary calling to know God and to make Him known. The study must not be barren or the prayer closet closed." - Paul Washer

"The preacher must not despise the mantle that Christ has placed upon him. He must not be seduced by a lesser purpose." - Paul Washer

"This might be a shocker, but God doesn’t intend the Christian life to gain the admiration of the world. God doesn’t build us into a picture of His Majesty simply to receive the applause of the masses. He doesn’t mold us with the expectation that this world will swoon before our beauty and grace. Actually, God builds the human life into a picture of His honor, truth, and life, in order to expose the selfishness, the sinfulness, and the profane motivation of all that has not yet been reborn and remade in Him.

He builds us as a contrast.

God builds us for crosses."

- Eric Ludy

"That deep hunger for God Himself is patently lacking, and it would appear that we have lowered our goal in the Christian life to something less than God Himself" - Roy Hession

"You are were you are in a position of leadership because of the presence of God in your life and his calling." - Ravi Zacharias

(speaking to church leaders) "I am not here in virtue of my strength but of Gods calling and His strength. That alone should remind us of why we need to be humble." - Ravi Zacharias

"God is not going to change the world through doctrines. He is going to change the world through humble simple lives that follow Him." - K.P. Yohannan

"Jesus only needed 11 people to change the world. Only 11 people and they were not perfect." - K.P. Yohannan

"To the degree that we misrepresent the Gospel, we will be stumbling blocks in the kingdom, and guilty of shipwrecking the faith of many." - Paul Washer

"Practical Christianity is the outflow of the life of Christ within you." - Eli Brayley

"If God said, 'If you sin once more you'll be sent to hell at once', would you be more careful not to sin in deed, word, thought, attitude & motive?" - Zac Poonen

"The paramount need in the church today and in the individual Christian is the indwelling presence of God." - Ravi Zacharias

"Jesus let me be completely Yours, and then I have everything on this earth." - Count Zizendorf

"I may say with truth that there is only about one in ten who professes Christianity who will turn round and glorify God with a loud voice. Nine out of ten are still born Christians. You never hear of them." - D.L. Moody

"A creed is the road or street. It is very good as far as it goes, but if it doesn't take us to Christ it is worthless." - D.L. Moody

"Weakness is not a hindrance to spiritual power, but a catalyst. Our weaknesses is not the problem, but our self-reliance and independence." - Paul Washer

"Since the days of Pentecost, has the whole church ever put aside every other work and waited upon Him for ten days, that the Spirit's power might be manifested? We give too much attention to method and machinery and resources, and too little to the source of power." - Hudson Taylor

"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

"The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us." - C.H. Spurgeon

“God is in the business of making total failures into the most beautiful people.” - K.P. Yohannan

“Our problem with our Christianity is that it is all about us.” - K.P. Yohannan

"The sad truth is that many Christians in these last days obey God only because
they are afraid of going to hell. They fear their Father's wrath and their
obedience to Him is "legal" only. They have no genuine desire to please Him." - David Wilkerson

"The freedom Jesus gives is in large part the freedom from desiring the approval of men in all areas if life." - Evan Schiable

‎"The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation." - C. H. Spurgeon

"Our financial pressures begin when we seek to take care of our financial needs with our own efforts and ingenuity. However, when we sincerely give God the ownership of all of our assets, and diligently follow his way to prosperity, we will bypass all of the pressures in today's financial world." - Bill Gothard

"We are justified by our words Matthew 12:36-37 and our faith Romans 5:1 and we are also justified by works James 2:21. Are you preaching 1/3 of the gospel?" - Zac Poonen

"We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours in the study." – E. M. Bounds

“One of the worst enemies that we have in our following the Lord is the love of comfort and materialism.” - K.P. Yohannan

"Jesus saves us from ruining our lives by becoming himself our peace and our power and our purpose." - John Piper

"You may find hundred's of faultfinders among professed Christians; but all their criticism will not lead one solitary soul to Christ." - D.L. Moody

"If we want to experience God, we must first abandon our thoughts and then start thinking His." - K.P. Yohannan

"Self-righteousness is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol. You are always trying to be something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers ; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it." - Robert Murray McCheyne

"We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can." - David Brainerd

"God of your goodness, give me yourself, For you are enough to me. And I can ask for nothing less that is to your glory. And if I ask for anything less, I shall still be in want, for only in you have I all." - Julian of Norwich

“God will wait and work with us until we change and come to a place where we abandon our own ways of thinking and accept His.” - K.P. Yohannan

"God's prophets are recognized less for revealing new truths from God's lips, more for weeping for the unrepentant." - R.C. Sproul Jr.