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"Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves." - Elisabeth Elliot

"The secret of our survival is fixing our eyes on Jesus and making Him alone our focus." - K.P. Yohannan

"Today, even amongst Christians, there can be found much of that spirit that wants to give as little as possible to the Lord, and yet to get as much as possible from Him. The prevailing thought today is of being used, as though that were the one thing that mattered. That my little rubber band should be stretched to the very limit seems all important. But this is not the Lord's mind. The Lord wants us to be used, yes; but what He is after is that we pour all we have, ourselves, to Him, and if that be all, that is enough." - Watchman Nee

"This journey will not be very long. This earthly existence is not the end of our lives. We are faced with a battle, but victory awaits us." - K.P. Yohannan

“The enemy has numerous tactics to keep us from praying because he knows that it is the greatest way for the kingdom of God to expand.” - K.P. Yohannan

"Biblically and historically, God's answer to a crisis has always been to raise up an ordinary person to serve as His leader for that time." - Richard Blackaby

Wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you for sermonindex. The hand of God can be seen in this ministry. It has changed and is changing my life.

"An increase of secret prayer with ministers will be the sure harbinger of blessing." - Andrew Murray

“I don’t gaze at men and glance at Jesus. I gaze at Jesus and glance at men.” - E. Stanley Jones

"Unless you learn to fix your eyes on Jesus alone, you will have no stability in your walk with God or in your service to Him." - K.P. Yohannan

‎"The angels glorify; men scrutinize: angels raise their voices in praise; men in disputation." - John Chrysostom

‎"We must never forget that true Christianity is more than teaching - it is a way of life. In fact, it is life itself." - Ray Stedman

"If we choose to follow Lord, we must follow Him with a heart of simple obedience. In this we see the Lord's leading in our life most clearly." - K.P. Yohannan

"The great commission is not multiple choice. - Derek Melton

"Let us flee from every vanity, let us utterly hate the works of the way of wickedness." - Barnabas of Alexandria

"According to Jesus, a man may have to lose the whole world in order to be saved. Yet, in His estimation, it was a bargain to pay so little!" - Paul Washer

"You can't follow Jesus and remain the same. If you are the same Christian you have been for years, repent, draw near to Him, and be changed." - Richard Blackaby

"The 1st century Pharisees wanted glory from one another. That's so sad because GOD was in front of them, & they missed Him." -Audrey Purtle

‎"...it is God alone that can answer the accuser...in the precious blood of Jesus He has already done so." - Watchman Nee

‎"The only worthwhile thing in this lifetime journey, whether 30 years or 20 years or 80 years, is to live a life that is absolutely, radically committed to Christ and His lordship, and to walk right now with passion to reach a world that are going to hell." - Dr. K.P. Yohannan

“Self-centered Christians cannot and will not respond to Christ because they are not submitted to Him as their head” - K.P. Yohannan

“When was the last time you spent an hour on your face before God in quietness?” - K.P. Yohannan

"While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you
must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall who, in
their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of
vice. If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do
not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who
is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities
mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or
arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my
friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter
vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we
shall serve God's glory." - Francis de Sales

“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek Him, the greatest adventure; to find Him, the greatest achievement" - Augustine

BTW, have you ever thought of compiling all of these quotes into book form (or eBook form)?

Great idea dear brother and we will consider this.

"All our preaching is a fool's errand apart from the power of the Holy Spirit. We are flesh; we profit nothing apart from His life in us!" - Paul Washer

"...and says that there is neither a resurrection nor a judgment, he is the first-born of Satan." - Polycarp

“Would weeping, would tears prevail on you, I could wish my head were waters, and my eyes fountains of tears, that I might weep out every argument, and melt you into love. Would any thing I could do or suffer, influence your hearts, I think I could bear to pluck out my eyes, or even to lay down my life for your sakes.” - George Whitefield

‎"Be long-suffering, therefore, with one another, in meekness, as God is towards you." - Ignatius

"The sinner's prayer is the golden calf of modern evangelicalism." ~ Paul Washer

"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving." - Amy Carmichael

“God is not looking for perfect people who know all the answers but honest, simple people that He can show Himself mighty." - K.P. Yohannan

Let us, then, not only call Him Lord, for that will not save us. For He saith, "Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall be saved, but he that worketh righteousness." Wherefore, brethren, let us confess Him by our works, by loving one another, by not committing adultery, or speaking evil of one another, or cherishing envy; but by being continent, compassionate, and good. We ought also to sympathize with one another, and not be avaricious. By such works let us confess Him, and not by those that are of an opposite kind. And it is not fitting that we should fear men, but rather God. For this reason, if we should do such [wicked] things, the Lord hath said, "Even though ye were gathered together to me in my very bosom, yet if ye were not to keep my commandments, I would cast you off, and say unto you, Depart from me; I know you not whence ye are, ye workers of iniquity." - Clement

"Jesus didn't need 12 million people to change the world, He just needed 11." - K.P. Yohannan from "Just Following Jesus (video)" http://bit.ly/J9gnAo

"The more thou art humbled now, the more thou shalt be exalted hereafter" - George Whitefield

"Blessed Jesus! I would seek to cleave closer and closer to Your cross! May I follow You, O Lamb of God--wherever You see fit to lead me. May I never feel as if I would wish one jot or tittle regarding me to be altered--when the reins of universal empire are in Your hands!" - John MacDuff

"For he who thinks he knows anything without true knowledge, and such as is witnessed to by life, knows nothing, but is deceived by the Serpent, as not loving life. But he who combines knowledge with fear, and seeks after life, plants in hope, looking for fruit." - Mathetes (200 A.D.)

"God is a Father Who (1)WELCOMES repentant sinners; (2)PROVIDES our needs & (3)DISCIPLINES us to make us HOLY. But many preach only (1) & (2)" - Zac Poonen (from his twitter account: http://twitter.com/zacpoonen )

"What is soulish? Soulish is that which is done by oneself. And what is spiritual? It is that which is done by God. And these two are radically different. A person can do something without any need for waiting upon God and trusting in Him. Such action is fleshly and it is soulish. But if a person cannot speak before God speaks, cannot move except God moves first; if he must look to God, wait and depend on Him, then that person and that action are spiritual. Let us thus ask ourselves if all we do is in the Holy Spirit." - Watchman Nee

Only a weak and perverted gospel promises salvation without sanctification: “Without sanctification no one will see the Lord.” Heb.12:14 - Paul Washer

"A dungeon with Christ is a throne, and a throne without Christ is a hell." - Martin Luther

“There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.” Proverbs 19:21

"The gospel call is universal. Christ shed His blood to redeem a people from every tribe & tongue & people & nation. It is a great work!" - Paul Washer

"Are you ready to go at once straight into heaven, if the gates were thrown open? What manner of persons ought we to be to say it! Are we walking in a way perfectly consistent with stepping tonight at once into the glory, to be at home in the Father's house?" - G.V. Wigram

"Do I walk as a heavenly man--my ways, my conversation, the ways and conversation of a man whom Christ has stooped to wash in His blood?" - G.V. Wigram

"The doctrine of the gospel as in the person of Christ is a lost thing in the present day, because it is always presented on the side that meets man, and not God's side." - G.V. Wigram

“The false religion of popular Christianity does not ask us to internalize the passion and mind of Christ, to surrender our egos, lay aside our flesh, take up the cross and begin a lifestyle marked by submission to the will of the Father as He (Jesus) did.” -K.P. Yohannan

"You have a holy responsibilty... to ask the Lord: 'Lord, what do you want me to do?'" - K.P. Yohannan

"Pray that He molds your heart into that of a willing servant." - Micheal Youssef

“Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified” . . . “Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted” - George Whitefield

"Christ is more concerned about what we do with Him than for Him. Labor is no substitute for love." - Warren Wiersbe

"Every time you draw your breath, you suck in mercy." - Thomas Watson

"If you don't plan to live the Christian life totally committed to
knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don't begin;
for this is what Christianity is all about. It is a change of
citizenship, a change of governments, a change of allegience. If you
have no intention of letting Christ rule your life, then forget
Christianity; it's not for you." - Kay Authur

"God sends no-one away empty, except those who are full of
themselves." - Dwight L. Moody

"When the Lord reveals His will to us and we obey, our mission will be
a success regardless of the results." - Chinese house church leaders.

"Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?" - Thomas a Kempis

“I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love.” - K.P. Yohannan

“Neglecting to bathe the ministry in prayer leaves us just workers, not worshipers." - K.P. Yohannan

Three words Jesus says every day..."Come to Me." - Eric Gilmour

"No matter how small or insignificant we feel at times, God can turn our resources and talents into something substantial for His glory." - Dr. Michael Youssef

Thanks brother we have corrected this!

“If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.” – John Maxwell

"You need to have an unhurried time with God. However early you need to get up. Get up so that you're time with God is unhurried." - Henry Blackaby

"You see, we are not free to sin. We are free not to sin." - Jon Courson

"The anointing of the Holy Spirit helps me greatly when I preach." - George Muller

“A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.” ~A.W. Tozer

“The more you and I fight to preserve our life, to save our life, the more we find that we are losing it.” - K.P. Yohannan

“A day is soon coming when we will repent over a wasted life we spent for ourselves.” - K.P. Yohannan

“We have to maintain a wide/open heart (towards others) while walking the Narrow Path.” - John Nelson Darby

"As soon as any organization gets larger than the life of the organism that sustains it, it can begin to crush that organism, and the organism begins to die. Many of us have lived through that kind of experience at some point in our journey. As the Church, we never want to put ourselves in the position where we exist to provide certain “services” as an organization." - David Ruis

‎"The greatest judgment God can lay upon a man is to let him sin without control. When the Lord's displeasure is most severely kindled against a person, he does not say, 'I will bring the sword and the plague on this man', but, 'I will let him sin on.'" - Thomas Watson

"The opposite of eternal life is not annihilation. It is hell." - John Piper

“The Gospel is indeed good news, but good only to the man who gets it.” – L.E. Maxwell

“Find your part in God’s plan of missions- then do it.” L.E. Maxwell

"There are no secrets to Life, but Christ. no key, but Christ. no method, but Christ. no formula, but Christ. no technique, but Christ. no systematic theology but Christ. no life, but Christ - for it is no longer I who lives, it is Christ Who lives in me (Galatians 2:20). In Him, through Him, and for His glory." - Anonymous

‎"Much of Christendom force feeds itself just enough food to survive but there is no hunger, no thirsting after the things of God" - T.A. Sparks

"Success, status, good works, morality - none can deliver you. Only the grace of the Lord through Jesus can usher you into eternal life." - Michael Youssef

"His timing and methods may not be what we would have chosen, but God will always follow through on His promises." - Michael Youssef

"We are heralds, we are proclaimers, but we're not the Holy Spirit. We don't change hearts & lives. He does!" - Damien Kyle

"You are not going to find a very popular movement for Revival. It's going to be a choosen few who want to really go on with God at any price." - J. Glyn Owen

As Christ’s return draws near, many former “believers” will fall away and become betrayers like Judas (Matthew 24:9-14, Luke 6:16, Matthew 26:6-16). Therefore we must retain the Gospel in our vessels of faith and love (II Timothy 1:13). - Santosh Poonen

"The drank with the drunken. The alcohol today, the sedative is prosperity, prosperity. The moment you lose the awareness of his coming you will lose control, your moral compass will go. Anything goes!" - David Wilkerson

"Remember that it is not hasty reading, but serious meditation on holy and heavenly truths — which makes them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the mere touching of the flower by the bee, which gathers honey — but her abiding for a time on the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most, but he who meditates most — who will prove to be the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian!" - Thomas Brooks

“We are positioned to affect history through disciplined, united, corporate intercession.” -Arthur Katz

"All men promiscuously do homage to God, but very few truly reverence him. On all hands there is abundance of ostentatious ceremonies, but sincerity of heart is rare." - John Calvin

"We should not aim at a great thing; we should stand instead in the place of God’s choice." - Watchman Nee

"The quickest way to double-damn multitudes to hell? Assume the ambassadorial ministry of Jesus Christ without the Holy Spirit." - Paul West

"It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets
of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth...
The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the
infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the
sin of my pride." - John Piper

"In the Kingdom, privilege and honor is in serving, not in being served." - Billy Humphrey

"It is true that there is now no condemnation “in Christ Jesus” (Rom 8:1), but there is nothing but condemnation apart from Him (Rom 5:18)" - Paul Washer

‎"A word spoken..when your conscience is clear & your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth 10,000 words spoken in unbelief & sin." - M'Cheyne

"I believe that one of the reasons why we see this literal hell on earth during the great tribulation is to give people a taste of hell while they still have a chance to avoid it. Sadly, many will refuse to repent. (Revelation 9:20-21)" - Pat Sieler

"I do not want to limit God. I want to leave the door open to what God wants to do." - Chuck Smith

"There is no substitute for sacrifice if we care to follow the Son of God, who set His face to the cross and its shame." - K.P. Yohannan

“Make yourself have the supreme priority of continually getting to know the Lord.” - K.P. Yohannan

"All great sins and crimes are committed during the night. The great robberies, drunkenness, reveling, adultery - this whole life of sin is a night life. During the day everyone has to work in a factory, college, or somewhere. The demonic forces are forces of the night, and therefore, it is so important to oppose them during the night." - Richard Wumbrand

Rom 5:12 - Oswald Chambers - with *emphasis & note for clarity -

The Bible does not say that God punished the human race for one man's sin; but that the 'disposition' of sin, viz., *my claim to my right to myself*, entered into the human race by one man, and that another Man took on Him the sin of the human race and put it away (Heb 9:26) -- an infinitely profounder revelation.
**The disposition of sin is not immorality and wrong-doing, but the disposition of self-realization -- "I am my own god."**
This disposition may work out in decorous morality or in indecorous immorality, but it has the one basis, my claim to my right to myself.
When Our Lord faced men with all the forces of evil in them, and men who were clean living and moral and upright, He did not pay any attention to the moral degradation of the one or to the moral attainment of the other; *He looked at something we do not see, viz., the disposition*.

[Note: "the disposition" is my claim to my right to myself - "I am my own god" - whether lving morally or immorally.
The Autonomous life. Without dependence on The Creator - The Savior from self rule.]

"A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the
Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to
escape from the wrath to come."
- C.H. Spurgeon

“It is not thy hold on Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not even thy faith in Christ, though that be the instrument; it is Christ's blood and merit.” - C.H. Spurgeon

"Beloved brothers and sisters, the Day of the Lord is at hand. That Man of Sin, the son of perdition, is soon to be revealed. The fearful scene of Rev 13 is beginning to unfold before us. Be patient and faithful if you are to conquer. While the Beast will control the world and the world receiving his mark will marvel at the Beast and worship him, we can easily identify his mark. Our insignia is the cross. Their insignia is a metamorphosed cross. Do you see it? Without this mark no one can buy or sell. No one can take any profit. So, brothers and sisters, if there are still among you those who love the world with it’s' money and fame, when the world will worship the Beast you will be caught in it. Prepare to suffer in the steps of our Savior, who left behind Him footprints of suffering that those who love His appearing may follow in His steps." - John Sung

"Trying to conquer sin through human willpower and determination is no different than David attempting to slay Goliath with Saul's sword. It's suicidal lunacy." - Paul West

"Blessed ones, count whatever is hard in this lot of yours as a discipline of your powers of mind and body. You are about to pass through a noble struggle, in which the living God is your manager and the Holy Spirit is your trainer. The prize is an eternal crown of angelic essence-citizenship in the heavens, glory everlasting." - Tertullian (140-230 AD)

"We are not here to possess the world. We are here to show, by how we use the world, that Christ is more precious than the world." - John Piper

“Failure is one of the most sacred tools God uses in our life to make us more like Jesus on the inside.” - K.P. Yohannan

“You do not want to build a foundation when the storm hits. It must be done beforehand.” - K.P. Yohannan

‎"The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine." - Hudson Taylor

‎"Better have men reproach you for being good...if a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?" - Thomas Watson

"God is not looking for able people, but for broken people." - K.P. Yohannan

"Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude-an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God." - A.W. Pink

"I want nothing for myself; everything for the Lord." - Watchman Nee

‎"Unless you learn to fix your eyes on Jesus alone, you will have no stability in your walk with God or in your service to Him." - K.P. Yohannan

‎"Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way" - Oswald Chambers

“It is only because He became like us that we can become like Him.”

― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

‎"A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats." - Charles Spurgeon

"There is too much at stake & too much glory to be gained for Christ to turn back, loose our hand from the plow, or become distracted." - Paul Washer

"The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture." - Watchman Nee

"Even truth can divide and destroy if it is not soaked and covered in love, grace and mercy—and presented with a tender heart." - K.P. Yohannan

"You could read every book ever written on prayer, but that won’t make you a person of prayer. We learn to pray by doing it." - K.P. Yohannan

"Isn't it staggering when you think that one sermon on the day of
Pentecost produced 3000 people? And we had some cities yesterday
where 3000 sermons were preached and nobody was saved. And
it doesn't even faze us."
-Leonard Ravenhill

"We may be preaching, or praying, or teaching, or merely doing some menial task in the service of God, but if it is done under man’s pressure, then it will not be acceptable to God. If you perform anything for God at any time simply under compulsion, or for what you can get out of it on earth, then there will be no reward for you in heaven. God demands willing service." - Bakht Singh

"You have escaped from the great tribulation on account of your faith, and because you did not doubt in the presence of such a beast. Go, therefore, and tell the elect of the Lord His mighty deeds, and say to them that this beast is a type of the great tribulation that is coming. If then ye prepare yourselves, and repent with all your heart, and turn to the Lord, it will be possible for you to escape it, if your heart be pure and spotless, and ye spend the rest of the days of your life serving the Lord blamelessly." - The Shepherd of Hermas (95-150)

"There is nothing like life's drudgery to make men and women of us. You chafe under it. You sigh for leisure, to be freed from bondage to hours, to duties, to tasks, to appointments, to rules, to the treadmill round. Yet this is God's school for you. It may be a cross. Yes—but all true blessing comes to us hidden under the ruggedness and the heaviness of a cross. We do not grow most in the easiest life. Accept your treadmill round, your plodding, your dull task-work, and do all well—do always your best—and you will grow into strong, noble character." - J.R. Miller

"Do not make the mistake of assuming that Samson was some kind of flash-in-the-pan. Twice we read that he judged Israel for a period of twenty years. He was also a very humble man and humility is very rare among men. Especially is this so among those who are outstanding in some field of human endeavor. Had Samson lived today he would have been known around the world. He actually killed a lion with his bare hands, but the record says that he did not even tell his father or his mother (Judges 14:6). Later on, when passing by the same way, he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion. He found a swarm off bees in the carcass took some of the honey and went back to the path and gave it to his father and mother. He still did not tell them the story of what had happened. In both cases, they were traveling with him, but he, being young and strong, was well out in front of his parents. If a modern-day Christian was to kill a mouse he would have to publish it in the Gospel Gazette! God loves humility." - Bill Mcleod

Excellent quote from Bill Mcleod.
I had heard something very similar from another teacher/preacher that was about Paul being caught up to the third heaven and how he had kept the details of the event to himself - whereas, if it had happened to some today - they'd be on every Christian Broadcast on TV and having book-signing days world-wide, on their book about the 'trip'.

"In my mind today, the picture I have is a church in a diabetic coma that has gorged itself on the sweets of affluence, materialism, and the idolatry of worshipping the materialistic world. That diabetic coma is now life threatening. We as a church are at the point of death – not the church in the Middle East. We are the ones who can no longer rouse ourselves to even pray for an hour on behalf of things that God would have us pray for." - Carl Moeller

"Every preacher whom God has sent will have a message to some souls who have not been reached by any other. And the more persons attend his preaching the better; the more room there is for God to work." - John Wesley

"The church is not the continuation of the cradle of our Lord but of His CROSS, His kingdom built through suffering." - Michael Sattler

"The more useful we are to God, the more we will be attacked by the enemy." - Zac Poonen

"Godliness is not a list of how-tos; rather it is the very life of Christ." - K.P. Yohannan

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

"Communism is collective demon-possession." - Richard Wumbrand

"He has in His hand all the gold of the world, and we have only to go to headquarters to get all that is wanted." - Hudson Taylor

"Evangelicalism is so contaminated by culture in word & practice that it no longer has a word for culture or the authority to speak it!" - Paul Washer

"A plethora of marketing & church-growth strategies will not save evangelicalism from being irrelevant. Only the gospel has such power." - Paul Washer

"The more uncompromisingly we stand for God’s truth, the more LOVING we should be to those who disagree with us. If not,our holiness is false." - Zac Poonen

"Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved." - Billy Graham

"Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the
church because of our traditions and history?" - K.P. Yohannan

"We made a deal - we preached and they beat us.
We were happy preaching and they were happy beating us,
so everyone was happy." - Richard Wumbrand

"In leadership we should never be afraid of those the Lord has gifted with more ability. In fact we should praise God for them!" - K.P. Yohannan

"Do you want to be more like Jesus? Look for opportunities to humble yourself." - K.P. Yohannan

"We need to find God, and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees, flowers, grass—grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.” - Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“He is poor in spirit. He mourns over sin. He is gentle. He hungers and thirsts for righteousness. He is merciful. He is pure in heart in the sense of he has no undivided loyalties. He is a peacemaker and he is marked by persecution. You want to know what the real core of discipleship is? It is this and you can’t fake this. This is one of the most beautiful pictures of the character of our Lord." - Paul Washer

"Judas heard all Christ's sermons."
-Thomas Goodwin

"Never did the church so much prosper and so truly thrive as when she was baptized in the blood. The ship of the church never sails so gloriously along as when the bloody spray of her martyrs falls on her deck. We must suffer and we must die, if we are ever to conquer this world for Christ." - C.H. Spurgeon

"I believe there will be more in Heaven than in hell. If anyone asks me why I think so, I answer, because Christ, in everything, is to "have the pre-eminence", and I cannot conceive how He could have the pre-eminence if there are to be more in the dominions of Satan than in Paradise." - C.H. Spurgeon

"We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that
we have none of our own."
- John Owen

"The authentic Christian life is essentially and radically different from the natural life lived by a man or woman. Outwardly, it can be very much the same, but inwardly the basis of living is dramatically different. Christ is a part of every wholesome action, the corrector of every wrong deed or thought, the giver of joy and the healer of hurt. No longer merely on the edges of life, Christ is the center of everything. Life revolves around him. As a consequence, life comes into proper focus. Despite outward trials, a deep peace possesses the heart, strength grips the spirit and kindness and joy radiate abroad. This is really living!" - Ray Stedman

‎"Take Your glory, Lord!" - William Duma

Spiritual Leadership is “knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God’s mean in reliance on God’s power.” -John Piper

"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 programs are ineffective and bankrupt – they will accomplish more than 50 men around a table discussing problems for a whole year." -Alan Redpath

"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

"When spiritual leaders crave to be admired, it reveals that something is very wrong in their hearts." - David Servant

"Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it." - Augustine

‎"Do nothing unworthy of Him who represents you in heaven, & whom you represent on earth. He is faithful to you; be you so to Him" - Horatius Bonar

"If you have made it about you, you have missed Christianity. It is about what God can do through you once He saves you." - Jim Cymbala

"Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to Hell for give years. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of passionate ministry." - William Booth

"Sixteen hundred years ago the church was adopted by Rome. Millions of pagans flooded its membership; and they brought with them their pagan culture, tradition, and faith. It took that 'successful church' a thousand years to recover from that brilliant success*. Something like that has happened in our day here in America. In this century, the church and religion have been adopted by society, politicians, entertainers, and popular persons. All of a sudden 'Jesus' and the 'gospel' have become quite popular. Millions have joined to swell church membership to an all-time high. RESULTS: A CHURCH TODAY THAT BEARS NO RESEMBLANCE TO THE CHURCH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 'RELIGION' HAS BECOME MAN'S CHIEF DEFENSE AGAINST THE TRUE GOSPEL." -Rolfe Barnard

"Lord, I will not leave thee, without thee." - Thomas Watson

"I have never yet known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided." - D. L. Moody

"No amount of activity will make up for neglect of the King Himself." - R.M. M'Cheyne

Phone Interviewer: "Say you were asked, Leonard, to speak for the
annual convention of the National Religious Broadcasters, and the
Lord directed you to accept that invitation, what message might
you bring to that group?"
Ravenhill: "I believe I´d preach on hell."

"He who would be a Christian must be so at the risk of all he counts dear in this life." - William Plumer

"Be gentle with every person you meet. They are fighting a great battle." - St. Ephrem the Syrian

"If grace were not grace, I could not live with the reality of how often I have failed Him. But grace is grace, and I am filled with hope." - Paul Washer

"I have never regretted one sacrifice in Jesus' Name. My only regret is how much I have held back and how little I have lived for Him!" - Paul Washer

"Life is short & uncertain. Meet death head on in the very center of God's will. Live for eternity. Every moment matters. Do not waste a drop" - Paul Washer

"May all thought of self be driven out by great thoughts of God, merciful thoughts of men, and active, practical piety toward both." - Paul Washer

"The Pharisees desired the honor of men. God gave them their reward in full & then they went to hell. May we desire more and choose better." - Paul Washer

"We are God's military outpost, protected by a full and equipped spiritual army, including innumerable soldiers, horses, chariots, in full battle array, completely informed of every enemy plan and device, defended completely against satan and all the evil powers in the universe." - David Wilkerson

"Jesus loves you today. Know this one thing and today will be extraordinary. Forget it and today will be full of striving and stress. You're loved!" - Gary Wilkerson

“The apostles weren’t trying to finesse people. Their communication was not supposed to be ‘cool’ or soothing. They aimed for a piercing of the heart, for conviction of sin. They had not the faintest intention of asking, ‘What do people want to hear? How can we draw more people to church on Sunday?’ That was the last thing in their minds. Such an approach would have been foreign to the whole New Testament." - Jim Cymbala

‎"A Christian... is not his own master; he puts his time at God's disposal." - St Ignatius

"When I stand before the throne,
Dressed in beauty not my own,
When I see Thee as Thou art,
Love Thee with unsinning heart,
Then Lord, shall I fully know—
Not till then—how much I owe."
- Ro­bert Murray Mc­Cheyne

"Maybe it doesn’t seem like anyone ever watches or appreciates you. But your King is always watching you. Do it all for Him." - K.P. Yohannan

"We need Divine help to preach aright to a congregation of one.
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well" - Charles H. Spurgeon

"The Church must face two alternatives: sociopolitical compromise with anti christian forces or incur wrath of a controlled political religious hierarchy." - Richard Wurmbrand

"Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness. Through brokenness that you stop depending on yourself and start relying upon God." - Bishop M.A Lalachan

"God never meant you to live the Christian life by your own wisdom. So He said 'My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.'" - Bishop M.A Lalachan

"Our best guide, when we are uncertain as to what to do, will be found in the answer to the question, 'What would Jesus do?'” - C.H. Spurgeon

“What is Christ’s claim upon us if we want to be His disciples? First of all, a supreme love. We cannot follow Christ unless we love Him better than anyone else. He puts Himself alongside the dearest relationships of earth, and says in unforgettable words, ‘You must hate all these, or you cannot be my disciple.’ …The word ‘hate’ is a relative word, it is not absolute…. He demands from you and me a love greater than the earliest love—the love to father and mother, greater than the dearest love—the love to wife and child, greater than the nearest love—the love of our own life.”

W. Y Fullerton (1915)

"Be willing to pay any price to keep the fire of God burning in your heart." - Zac Poonen

"Oh, that God would raise up prophets to speak to this people! Broken & humble men filled with a proper portion of zeal, knowledge, and love!" - Paul Washer

"The West's march to destruction is unbearable. Yet western evangelicalism's swift decent into Vanity Fair is even more difficult to endure." - Paul Washer

“We will not know His ways until we come and be with Him.” - K.P. Yohannan

"Remain faithful to your Friend, and remember that His honor is at stake in your bodily life." - Oswald Chambers

"Get alone with God, and receive the revelation of His wonderful purpose and plans for your life." - Smith Wigglesworth

"We read in Daniel 11:31, that one of the things that the antichrist will put an end to is "THE DAILY SACRIFICE". Jesus constantly spoke to His disciples of a daily sacrifice - a daily sacrifice that he Himself had in His life: "If anyone will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross DAILY..." (Lk.9:23).This message has been eliminated by Satan from Christendom. And so the holy place has been corrupted. When the preaching of the cross disappears from any church, sin and worldliness soon take over." - Zac Poonen

"Keep your hands in His. Fix your gaze afresh upon the One who loved you and gave Himself for you. Follow His lead, for His rod and His staff are there to protect, guide, and comfort you. His desire is to restore your soul in the path He has prepared beforehand for you to walk along. Do not be afraid of what lies ahead or how you will be provided for." - Josh Olson

"To be used to save souls for eternity is worth suffering and dying. The salvation of the lost should concern us more than our own earthly existence." - Corrie Ten Boom

"When the Lord Jesus returns I will rise again with all the Christians to a new heavens and new earth. There is a heaven to gain; there is a hell to shun." - Bob Jennings

"Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap."
-Vance Havner

"God uses people. God uses people to perform His work. He
does not send angels. Angels weep over it, but God does not use
angels to accomplish His purposes. He uses burdened broken-
hearted weeping men and women."
-David Wilkerson

"Maybe it doesn't seem like anyone ever watches or appreciates you. But your King is always watching you. Do it all for Him." - K.P. Yohannan

"The world and the church's needs are greater then ever, and so are the opportunities. The stage is set for possibly the greatest advancement in missions the church has ever known. Political upheavals have opened the door to countries that were previously closed, and all the great "ism's" of secular man have fallen under the weight of their own error. Humanism has left our world disillusioned and cynical. Secular thought has left it soulless and empty. Materialism has left both the "haves" and the "have not's" miserable and constantly at war. Sexual libertarianism has raped the individual of human dignity, exiled beauty, and driven a knife through the heart of innocence. Finally, the current revival of paganism has left men praying to rocks, hugging trees, and killing babies. The enlightenment of the twentieth century, which was to bring peace and prosperity has spawned more ignorance, poverty, immorality, and violence then any scholar could have predicted or any prophet could have foretold. It is a day to do great things." - Paul Washer

"In the Scriptures, many graphic and striking descriptions of hell are given. Whether they are to be taken as literal or not has been a long-standing debate even among conservative scholars. Is hell a place of literal fire and darkness, of brimstone and smoke? If someone denies a literal interpretation of these descriptions with the purpose of diminishing the sufferings of the wicked in hell, they are to be dismissed. However, it is acceptable to hold these descriptions to be figurative in the sense that they are an attempt to describe something so terrifying that it goes beyond the capacity of the human mind to conceive and beyond the power of our human language to communicate. To describe the terrors of hell, the biblical writers used the greatest terrors known to man on earth, but one can be assured that hell is worse than anything found on earth. Fire and darkness, brimstone and smoke are only a feeble attempt to describe a reality far more terrifying than even these words can convey. In the same way that the glories of heaven cannot be comprehended by the human mind or communicated through human language, the terrors of hell are beyond our comprehension and ability to describe." - Paul Washer

"God helps those who cannot help themselves." - C.H. Spurgeon

“Get ready for our own humblings. God is not going to send a stuffy, ‘we were right,’ ‘told you so,’ Church to Israel. He’s going to send a people who are like blinded Samson, who recover strength by the grace of God, having been deeply humbled.” – Reggie Kelly

"How will you stand in the coming persecution when you're prayerless? The prayerless church will not stand in the coming storm." -Brian Long

"The success of the early disciples was their life in the Spirit, making them a radical alternative in their culture." Gordon Fee

“What did Jesus do? He deliberately chose the cross, He suffered. The Bible says He learned obedience through suffering.” - K.P. Yohannan

"We can get all worked up over missionaries ten or twelve thousand miles away, but people can live right next door to us and be perishing in their spiritual agony, and we do nothing. That is worldliness. It results from this business of thinking we can live our own lives; that we can withdraw from the world and create our own Christian world and live within it." - Ray Stedman

"John Wesley never lowered himself to preach miracles once in his life. But the miracles that followed John Wesley's ministry were unbelievable. On one instance he had to make an engagement, and his horse fell lame and could not travel. Wesley got down on his knees beside his horse and prayed for its healing. Then he got back up and rode, without the horse limping, to where he was going. He did not publicize the miracle and say, "We'll have a big tent here and advertize it." God just did those things for him. While C. H. Spurgeon did not preach healing, he had more people delivered in answer to his prayer than any doctor in London. Those are the kinds of miracles I am talking about." - A.W. Tozer