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"I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others." - A.B. Simpson

"To obey the Lord unseen—in secret—is the foundation of genuine godly service." - K.P. Yohannan

“O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that you have no ground for it. Whatever you are, you have nothing to make you proud. The more you have, the more you are in debt to God; and you should not be proud of that which renders you a debtor.” -C. H. Spurgeon

Persecution has never hurt the church … only prosperity. ~Paul Washer

You mark my words, and it won’t be long … when persecution begins in this country [USA], and it strips everything from you, and most of the evangelical church goes totally apostate, and little groups are left to be berated, THEN you will see that Christ is enough. ~Paul Washer

I don’t want revival … I WANT CHRIST! And if we have Christ, there will be a revival. ~Paul Washer

"The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance has faded away to an apologetic whisper. She who one time went out to declare now goes out to inquire. Her dogmatic declaration has become a respectful suggestion, a word of religious advice, given with the understanding that it is after all only an opinion and not meant to sound bigoted." - A.W. Tozer

"The rapture is not going to come before life gets hard." - Denny Kenaston

"We win by dying." - Denny Kenaston

"I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and
2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down
and cry?" - Leonard Ravenhill

"Rejoice, ye contrite hearts, While with repenting tears. The blood which Jesus spilt. Your sins you now deplore." - Old Moravian Hymn

"churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains are mostly external and our losses wholly internal; and since it is the quality of our religion that is affected by internal conditions, it may be that our supposed gains are but losses spread over a wider field." - A.W. Tozer

"I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground." - John Knox

"The first step to being deceived is to believe you are so close in your walking to God that you cannot be deceived." - Roy Daniel

"Some believe the more dedicated you are the more doctrinally sound you willl be. You know this might sound strange because of course dedication is important, but I was never set free from one lie of Satan by being more dedicated... Every lie I was ever set free from was by truth and truth alone." - Roy Daniel

"It is known and experienced that as we daily feed upon a crucified Christ, it devours and gradually works away the Life of Sin and all the evil effects of it. Let the wise understand and find out this mystery, and discern and taste the Lord’s mystical body." - Jane Lead

"I want to train my kids so where they are the only believers they can stand on their own two feet and teach others." - Francis Chan

"It is a very, very big deal to ignore a command of Christ." - Francis Chan

"I believe, O sovereign Goodness, 0 mighty Wisdom, that thou dost sweetly order and govern all things, even the most minute, even the most noxious, to thy glory, and the good of those that love thee. I believe, O Father of the families of heaven and earth, that thou so disposest all events, as may best magnify thy goodness to all thy children, especially those whose eyes wait upon thee. I most humbly beseech thee, teach me to adore all thy ways, though I cannot comprehend them; teach me to be glad that thou art king, and to give thee thanks for all things that befall me; seeing thou hast chosen that for me, and hast thereby ‘set to thy seal that they are good.’ And for that which is to come, give me thy grace to do in all things what pleaseth thee; and then, with an absolute submission to thy wisdom, to leave the issues of them in thy hand."

John Wesley (1703–1791)

"I pray God, for the sake of Christ…to receive me now as entirely his own, and to deal with me, in all respects, as such, whether he afflicts me or prospers me, or whatever he pleases to do with me, who am his. Now, henceforth, I am not to act, in any respect, as my own—I shall act as my own, if I ever make use of any of my powers to any thing that is not to the glory of God, and do not make the glorifying of him my whole and entire business."

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)

"True Godly vision consists of foresight, insight and oversight that come from God. Grace and Faith assures us that the vision we have is from God." - Bishop Lalachan M A

"All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?" - Paul Washer

"The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray." - Samuel Chadwick

“Be instant and constant in prayer. Study, books, eloquence, fine sermons are all nothing without prayer. Prayer brings the Spirit, the life, the power.” - David Stoner

"Everything is safe which we commit to Him, and nothing is really safe which is not so committed." - A.W. Tozer

"Your first and chief business with your God has to do with your innermost self—your real self. You shall come to keep your outward rightly enough if you will begin to cleanse the inside of the platter first." - C.H. Spurgeon

"Growth is not more knowledge or increase of years: it is simply more of Christ and less of me. He increases as I decrease. This is what it means to be a disciple." - Chip Brogden

"All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists." - D.A. Carson

"Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God & detached from the glory of God." - Paul Washer

"I think we, every one of us, ought to be humiliated or humbled every time we pick up the book of Acts and read the glory that attended the life of that first church." - Art Katz

"God gives us a million and one things and all we can think and pray
about is that ONE he hasn't given us... man is a MISERABLY selfish
creature." - Zac Poonen

"As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises." - David Wilkerson

"Woke up with the thought this morning of three great things that test our spiritual fruit in this life; persecution, opposition and rejection. How we respond to these things will demonstrate what spirit we are of." - Robert Wurtz II

“Oh! How should all hearts be taken with this Christ? Why stand ye gazing on the toys of this world, when such a Christ is offered to you in the Gospel? Can the world die for you?" - Isaac Ambrose

“It’s easier to blame than to do something. But put your heart into it. Seek to make a difference. You’ll overcome fear and finish your race in victory." - Carter Conlon

"You mark my words, and it won’t be long … when persecution begins in this country [USA], and it strips everything from you, and most of the evangelical church goes totally apostate, and little groups are left to be berated, THEN you will see that Christ is enough." - Paul Washer

"We are impatient because we expect to see fruit from our labors. If we try to justify our journey then we are lost." - Jackie Pullinger

""The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief." - Jackie Pullinger

"This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have bowed me upon my knees in tears." - Oswald J. Smith

The Church of Christ is literally filled with carnal, earthly-minded Christians who sit back in ease and self-complacency and await a rapture that will translate them out of the midst of earth’s Great Tribulation at the beginning of the Day of the Lord. To this generation of world-conformers God speaks in no uncertain terms: “Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.” (Amos 5:18). In the vast majority of evangelical circles we are taught that any moment all God’s people shall be caught up, raptured, to be with the Lord in the air–to escape the Great Tribulation which soon shall visit the earth. It is not true. The saints shall be “caught up” all right; but “every man in his own order.” (1 Cor. 15:23). What that order is does not concern us right now; but the fact remains, we are nowhere taught that the saints are going to escape the hour of Great Tribulation by way of rapture. … Sudden cataclysmic judgments shall fall upon the earth, the ungodly shall be “taken” suddenly as in a “snare,” but the righteous shall be “left” in a place of safety. (From Chapter 6, The Blowing of Trumpets) - George Warnock

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

"that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God." - The Lord Jesus

"The gift most needed cannot be wrapped with ornate paper; it was wrapped with nail pierced hands and feet and a blood stained brow." - Edgar Reich

"What about us? Do people encounter that overflowing joy, found in Jesus and the early Christians, in our lives as well?" - K.P. Yohannan

“Our biggest enemy is not demons out there, it is our own self-centeredness.” - K.P. Yohannan

“I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God’s creational intentions.” - John Wesley

"You cannot serve God and wealth (Matt 6:24)" - Jesus Christ

"God does His work through amateurs not by professionals." - K.P. Yohannan

"If you drop your disguise and come to God with complete sincerity, He will be quick to lift that heavy burden from you, because he loves you and wants to bless you." - Chuck Smith

"Hypocrisy only leads to destruction. If your heart isn’t honest before God, you are headed down a dangerous path." - Chuck Smith

"If the busyness of this day has kept you from time with Christ: There are still a few hours left... Go to Him...." - Paul Washer

"My heart was so full of joy that I could do little else but weep. Oh, I wonder, I wonder, when I see so many good Ministers at home, crowding each other and treading on each other's heels, whether they would not part with all their home privileges, and go out to the Heathen World and reap a joy like this—"the joy of the Lord." - John G. Paton

"Man’s works do not even come close to the works of the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit does not work, all the efforts of man will come to naught." - John Sung

"Believe in the victory and promises of Jesus. Count on them. Praise His victory daily over all the impossible situations in your personal life and in your work for the Kingdom of God, and you will see His victory and the glory of God both now and for all eternity. God reveals Himself to the eyes of faith." - Basilea Schlink

"Grace doesn't excuse us from repentance. For some it's habitual sin. Others it's losing passion or being distracted by the busyness of life." - Gary Wilkerson

“Christians are crazy if they don’t immerse themselves in My Word while they still can.” - Steve Gallagher

"Obedience is the food of the saints" - Egyptian hermit

"God longs to gather into His household all His children who are still outside. Do not put them off by your conduct. Otherwise, you will bar their way into the Father's house, and at the Last Judgment they will blame you." - Basilea Shlink

"Oh, that God would humble me deeply in the dust before Him! I deserve hell every day for not loving my Lord more, who has, I trust, loved me and given Himself for me. Every time I am enabled to exercise any grace renewedly, I am renewedly indebted to the God of all grace for special assistance. Where then is boasting? Surely it is excluded when we think how we are dependent on God for the being and every act of grace. Oh, if ever I get to heaven it will be because God wills, and nothing else; for I never did anything of myself but get away from God!" ~ David Brainerd

"See what the Moravians have done!" -William Carey as he slammed the Moravian missions periodical on a table at a Baptist meeting

"Ordination and anointing are a million miles apart." - Leonard Ravenhill

"Preachers who talk about everything but the reality of Hell, are likeable betrayers of the gospel." - Ray Comfort

"All great revivals came in the midst of apostasy. Judgment is rushing on to a climax. But God’s program is also rushing to a climax—and nothing will answer the spiritual needs of this hour except the supernatural power of God. There is every evidence in God’s Word, and in His working today, that the hour is at hand for the outpouring of the Spirit and God’s consummation of the age!" - W.C. Moore (1950)

"The great need in the Christian life is self-discipline." - Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"We can take whatever path in worship we choose, but not all paths will end at the feet of Jesus." - A.W. Tozer

"As the world is weary of me so am I of it." - John Knox

"If following Christ has never cost you anything, you're not following Him." - Tim Conway

"The majority of what calls itself Christianity today is a circus. You've got a bunch of people chasing health, wealth, prosperity; chasing a good time, chasing the social club, chasing where the action's happening, chasing the good music and the good times. But few people are out there chasing God, and truly going hard after Him, and truly making the sacrifices in their life and cleaning their hands in such a way and working to have a pure heart that they might actually ascend that hill of the Lord and they might actually commune with God in a way that few people do and few people know about." - Tim Conway

"The life of the Lord Jesus Christ flows like a river in those who are born again." - Bakht Singh

“Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.” - Corrie Ten Boom

"We must live in the fire; we must hate sin; we must love righteousness; we must live with God." - Smith Wigglesworth

"Every Method put to use to mortify sin which is not by the Holy Spirit is doomed to failure. Every system which attempts to deal with sin without Christ and the Holy Spirit is legalistic and miserable." - John Owen

"Those who would forcibly remove all our possessions will be placing us in a far better position to fix our affections on things above." - Alan Martin

“The best way to avoid compromise is to take up the word of God, (the spiritual
sword,) in our fight for the kingdom.” - Ken Miller

"They who are conscious of their own sins have no eyes for the signs of their neighbors." - Abbot Moses (desert Father 10th century A.D.

"As a moth gnaws a garment, so doeth envy consume a man." ~ St. John Chrysostom

"The difference between a Pharisee and a Christian is not the possession of knowledge but life." - Derek Melton

"There are in the churches stores of unconsecrated wealth, unused or misused talents, multitudes at ease in Zion, witnesses who bear no testimony for their Lord, workers without the Spirit's conquering power, teachers who speak without authority, disciples who follow afar off, forms without life, Church machinery substituted for inward life and power." - D.L. Moody.

"To be prayerless is to be without Christ, without God, without grace, without hope, and without heaven" - J.C. Ryle

"Live in the future glory prepared for you. Rejoice in the hope of what awaits you above. Then the coming glory and all its joy will become a present-day reality for you. Live in this hope, and the sadness in you and around you will disappear." - Basilea Shlink

"Lord Jesus Christ, You are our Creator, You have all power. You became Man for us, died in our stead and rose again to live in us. We give complete charge of our hearts, lives and plans. We will not do anything without your permission. Lord Jesus Christ, this is Your home. We are your children. We do not want our will to be done in this home, but only your will." - Brother Bakht Singh

"The end of ourselves is the beginning of God." - Carter Conlon

"Ah! how many Judases have we in these days, that kiss Christ..that in their words profess him, but in their works deny him" - Thomas Brooks

"Only a pure, authentic life can produce fruit that remains for eternity. All else will turn into ash." - K.P. Yohannan

"Throughout His life on earth, Jesus did everything for the glory of the Father. He did not do one thing of His own or for Himself." - K.P. Yohannan

"Those who crave money, wealth and a higher standard of living will find that this craving will ruin their spiritual life." - Basilea Shlink

"Every time I am enabled to exercise any grace renewedly, I am renewedly indebted to the God of all grace for special assistance" - Brainerd

"We want his power more than his purity." - David Wilkerson

“The more we know of God, the happier we are." George Mueller

"God put you in Christ (and His One body) when He chose you. Any other category; you put yourself there." - Israel Wayne

"If you’re living for self, you’re not following Jesus." - Steven J. Cole

"I long for love without any coldness, light without any dimness, and purity without spot or wrinkle." Robert Murray M’Cheyne

"Those who spend themselves for the coming of the Kingdom of God will automatically look to their heavenly Father in childlike trust for all their needs. Living for God, they rely on Him and His help." - Basilea Shlink

‎"The God of grace is the very same God that is 'now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent.'" -David Ravenhill

"If the 20th century was labeled the ecumenical century for theology in England, we're seeing its limitations and ramifications now. We need to contend for something more than ecumenicism; namely, a recovery of the apostolic faith itself..." - Bryan Purtle

"Untold millions are still untold." – John Wesley

"Faith is a refusal to panic." - Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"The logic of a life truly lived in God invites martyrdom." - Art Katz

"The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy." - A.W Tozer

"Prodigal is someone who acts and thinks like it does not matter what God says." - Dai Sup Han

"Martyrdom is not some kind of rare experience for the very few because they were not wise enough to avoid the consequence; it is the normative, logical end result of faith in Christ, if we pursue Him truly, because we live in a world that is hostile against Him." - Art Katz

"He is not a commodity, He is the Most High." - Art Katz

"Spirituality is the last hiding place of self." - Art Katz

"The absence of persecution in the church is a statement to our shame. There is something wrong in the character of the church when it does not evoke any opposition to itself." - Art Katz

"Since you & I are pitiful, we should not find it difficult to show pity. Our shared weaknesses should unite us in tender fellowship." - Paul Washer

"There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write damnation with your fingers." - C.H. Spurgeon

"A Crucified Lord must have a Crucified Bride." - W.B. Dunkum

When men speak about someone is a humble man, that means he behaves in a humble way towards people. That is the only humility that human beings can talk about. But when God talks about humility in the New Testament, that is not humility before men, that is secondary.

God speaks primarily about obedience to God.

In the secret areas of our life. If I seek to keep my thought life pure before God, that shows I am humble, if I am careless about my thought life, that shows I am proud. This is the connection between dirty thoughts and pride. But true humility is obedience to God. Of Jesus it is said, "He humbled himself by becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross..." (Phil 2:8)

- Zac Poonen

"If you truly want to become a heavenly man or woman while living here on the earth, you may begin by reading, meditating on, believing in, and walking out the heavenly truths found in the letter to the church at Ephesus." - Mark S. Case

"I believe 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

Faith doesn't come by doing google searches, faith comes by reading the bible. -Zac Poonen

"What I do not desire, what my heart fears, what my body shuns, and my mind reasons against are the trials that burn away my dross." - Paul Washer

"What fools are they who, for a drop of pleasure, drink a sea of wrath." — Thomas Watson

"A day without prayer simply surrenders the day and its events to the devil's will." - Dan Biser

"Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors." - Matthew Henry

"Satan always gratifies the soul that longs for sin." - William Gurnall

"The kingdom of God never advances by those who live to preserve themselves." - Carter Conlon

Let us often look at Brainerd in the woods of America pouring out his very soul before God for the perishing heathen without whose salvation nothing could make him happy. Prayer -secret, fervent, be­lieving prayer- lies at the root of all personal godli­ness. A competent knowledge of the language where a missionary lives, a mild and winning temper, a heart given up to God in closet religion – these, these are the attainments which, more than all knowledge, or all other gifts, will fit us to become the instruments of God in the great work of human redemption. Carey's Brotherhood, Serampore

"While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It was perfectly dry in spite of the fact that it had been immersed in water for centuries. The same is true of many people in the Western world. For centuries they have been surrounded by Christianity; they live immersed in the waters of its benefits. And yet it has not penetrated their hearts; they do not love it. The fault is not in Christianity, but in men's hearts, which have been hardened by materialism and intellectualism."

- S. Sundhar Singh

"I would tell any Preacher; Go! Get alone with God. Find a cave and take with you your Bible, and The Christian in Complete Armour." Leonard Ravenhill

"Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity." -Robert Murray M'Cheyne

"The Lord is the one leading you out of darkness, from a covenant and oneness with satan so that you are saved and being saved. A good way to know that you're saved is that you're still walking in it and you're being saved, amen? If you are not a new creation and all things have not become new and you're still running around and playing with the devil then you don't know the Lord...you only have a form of godliness."

- Milton Green

"Why make disciples? Because heaven and hell exist, and the end of the world is coming." - David Platt

"A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church." - David Platt

"If the Lord tarries, there may yet be a grass-roots awakening that
will overflow all sectarian barriers. There are a host of good people...
who long for a visitation from heaven in old-time power. The kindling
wood is scattered all round in all the churches. May God help us
to rake off the ashes, uncover the live coals and may He blow
upon us with the breath of His Spirit!"
-Vance Havner

"When you see a horde of vultures circling above, you know there's a carcass somewhere below. In the same way, when the carcasses of money, beauty and worldly honor are present, the powers of darkness are not far away. These roadkills along the narrow path of eternal life are the baitings by which men are drawn into pits of everlasting destruction." - Paul West

"Many of you will study the Bible, many of you will pray, many of you will seek out Godly fellowship, and at the same time, you do not make that much progress with regard to the purity of your heart, because you're constantly allowing filth to be pumped in. Five seconds of filth on the television will take away two hours of good Bible study." - Paul Washer

"I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest." - Robert Murray McCheyne

"Don't fall prey to the popular Christianity of this generation." - K.P. Yohannan

"Quarrelling and jealousy are enemies of the Kingdom of God. They subvert it and work against the Lord of this kingdom" - Basilea Shlink

“Sincerity is the holy oil which makes the wheels of the soul run nimbly, even in the difficult paths of obedience.” - John Flavel

"Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for all assistance, strength and grace." - David Brainerd

“Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.”
― Andrew Murray

"The prophetic servant is shattered by a realization that the nations neglect the God of glory while they celebrate the petty systems of men." - Bryan Purtle