New Thread, share your favorite quotes, long, short, one's that don't fit in other categories(For instance short prayer quotes, please keep in the "Prayer, charged short statements" section)Thanks! "A sacred familiarity with the Divine Mind is the best inspiration for literature. Many an author, dead and forgotten, might have been alive in the world's memory today, only for lack of that quickening into greatness which comes of God's breath upon the soul. The world's teachers must first be God's learners. Wisdom does not grow out of books when students lock themselves in shut closets. The cloister must open outward to the world and upward to the heavens. The great wisdom is God's divinity and man's humanity. Who knows this, knows most of all, after this, whatremains to be learned is little. God first, man next; the rest are trifles."Theodore Tilton.
Great Quotes
"God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way."- Max Lucado
"Adversity doesn't build character; it reveals it."Not sure who said it, but I like it.In Christ,Jeremy Hulsey"Truth without fire is dead. Fire without truth is deadly. God give us the Truth on Fire!"
Love is the foundation of all obedience. Without it morality degenerates into mere casuistry. Love is the foundation of all knowledge. Without itreligion degenerates into a chattering about Moses and doctrines and theories; a thing that will neither kill nor make alive, that never gave life to a single soul or blessing to a single heart, and never put strength into anyhand in the conflict and strife of daily life.Alexander Maclaren.
"If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for."Charles Spurgeon
Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride.Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair.Knowing Christ gives the balance.- Blaise PascalChrist always identified Himself with the least, the last, and the lost.- Unknown
"The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshippers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity."-Brother LawrenceIts so wonderful how brother lawerence paints such a powerful picture of our purpose on earth. Let people look at us and think we are of no earthly good for 'our citizenship is in heaven'."The more one knows God, the greater one desires to know Him. Knowledge is commonly the measure of love. The deeper and more extensive our knowledge, the greater is our love." -Brother LawrenceOur reading of scriptures should cataylst our relationship with God. For the Scriptures testify of Christ, let us come to Him to have life."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'and find out what pleases the Lord.' - Ephesians 5:10
The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things. -Oswald Chambers
"When preachers do not call sin, sin, the people begin to wink at sin!" ~Dr. Micheal Useph~
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 secret of Christianity is not asking Jesus into your heart; it is Jesus asking us into His.Unknown...
"The Word written is not only a rule of knowledge, but a rule of obedience; it is not only to mend our sight, but to mend our pace. Reading without practice will be but a torch to light men to hell."Thomas Watson 1620-1686
GROWTH IS NOT MORE KNOWLEDGE OR INCREASE OF YEARS:IT IS SIMPLY MORE OF HIM AND less of me. HE INCREASES AS i decrease. THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A DISCIPLE. ~Chip Brogden~ watchman.net
Worldliness is what any particular culture does to make sin look normal and righteousness look strange.~ David Wells
Some say that faith is the gift of God. So is the air, but you have to breathe it; so is bread, but you have to eat it. Some are wanting some miraculous kind of feeling. That is not faith.'Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God' (Rom. 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for me to sit down and wait for faith to come stealing over me with a strong sensation, but is for me to take God at His Word.- D. L. Moody
Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.- D.L. Moody
Mr. Spurgeon leaning over the platform of a church where a work of grace was going on, heard a penitent below in great distress pray earnestly, 'Lord, make a good job of me! Lord, make a good job of me!'
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose"Brother Jim Elliot
It doesn't take an extraordinary person - just devotion to our extraordinary God - to live an extraordinary life.
Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!"For feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the word of God; Naught else is worth believing. Though all my heart should feel condemned For want of some sweet token, There is One greater than my heart Whose word cannot be broken. I'll trust in God's unchanging word Till soul and body sever; For though all things shall pass away, His word shall stand forever."
The shortest distance between a problem and the solution is the distance between your knees and the floor.- Anonymous
In the Irish Revival of 1859, people became so weak that they could not get back to their homes. Men and women would fall by the wayside and would be found hours later pleading with God to save their souls. They felt that they were slipping into hell and that nothing else in life mattered but to get right with God... To them eternity meant everything. Nothing else was of any consequence. They felt that if God did not have mercy on them and save them, they were doomed for all time to come.-Oswald J. Smith
"As a Christian, I am responsible for the furniture of my mind."Frank E. Gaebelein
[God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship", for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way." ... George Macdonald (1824-1905), Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood[1866]Subscription info: http://www.cqod.org/cqodlist.htm
Holiness is an impossiblity - without the Holy Spirit.-Anonymous
It is no sin to doubt some things but it may be fatal to believe everything.-A.W. Tozer
You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period.You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do.But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset,and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly?He knows the shoals and the sandbanks, the rocks and the reefs,He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe. ... Peter Marshall (1902-1949)Subscription info: http://www.cqod.org/cqodlist.htm
A baptism of holiness, a demonstration of godly living is the crying need of our day.-Duncan Campbell
It shall greatly help you to understand Scripture if thou mark not only what is spoken or written but of whom and to whom with what words at what time where to what intent with what circumstances considering what goeth before and what followeth.John Wycliff 1330-1384
Oh, If only once we could be convinced of God's goodness towards His children and of His desire to reveal Himself to them! We would no longer seek out own selfish desires. We would not be so quickly discouraged from pursuing what He is so long to give us:Romans 8:32 (kjv) - He who spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not, with Him, also freely give us all things?We only need alittle courage and perseverance. Actually, we have enough of both in our earthly affairs, but none at all in the only thing that really matters (Luke 10:42).-Jeanne Guyon
"We need people that just know God these days. God can gift people, but its something else when a man is in favour with God. When God can say for this man's sake I will not judge this city or will show favour to this church."~Greg Gordon
Not that I have already attained, or am already perfect . . . —Philippians 3:12 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do—God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself. The emphasis of holiness movements tends to be that God is producing specimens of holiness to put in His museum. If you accept this concept of personal holiness, your life’s determined purpose will not be for God, but for what you call the evidence of God in your life. How can we say, "It could never be God’s will for me to be sick"? If it was God’s will to bruise His own Son ( Isaiah 53:10 ), why shouldn’t He bruise you? What shines forth and reveals God in your life is not your relative consistency to an idea of what a saint should be, but your genuine, living relationship with Jesus Christ, and your unrestrained devotion to Him whether you are well or sick. Christian perfection is not, and never can be, human perfection. Christian perfection is the perfection of a relationship with God that shows itself to be true even amid the seemingly unimportant aspects of human life. When you obey the call of Jesus Christ, the first thing that hits you is the pointlessness of the things you have to do. The next thought that strikes you is that other people seem to be living perfectly consistent lives. Such lives may leave you with the idea that God is unnecessary—that through your own human effort and devotion you can attain God’s standard for your life. In a fallen world this can never be done. I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God’s purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.
"In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them."~A. W. Tozer~
This may be the mother of all great quotes on prayer contained in one setting.http://www.liftupusa.com/pquotes.htmIf you are up to the challenge, you will find one of SermonIndex's 'own', if I may coin the term, listed amongst the many there.Enjoy.
It is necessary that our sharpest trials should sometimes spring from our dearest comforts, else we should be in danger of forgetting ourselves and setting up our rest here.-John Newton
this was brought to mind recently...Here is a different kind of 'gem from the pulpit'. For many years the most conservative of Anglican theological colleges in the UK was (and is?) Oakhill Theological College. Young men fulfilled their courses of study as preparation for ordination into the Anglican ministry. The chapel had a simple pulpit where the young students preached their apprentice sermons to each other. As a young would-be ordinand I was once permitted to enter the pulpit and discovered an irregular brass plate set into the pulpit and visible only to someone as they stood to preach. On the brass plate were engraved the words Sir, we would see Jesus [John 12:21] I never heard or read of better advice given for preachers of any age.
I have no delight in the bread that perisheth, nor in the pleasures of this life. I long for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ, of the seed of David; and the drink that I long for is His blood.-Ignatius
Live in Christ and the flesh need not fear death.-John Knox
Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.—Matthew Henry
God's choice acquaintances are humble men.—Robert Leighton
The greatest wisdom on this earth is holiness.—W.S. Plumer
We use several hymn books in our meeting here in Reading UK. One of them is a compilation of 120 Wesley hymns, un-edited, un-shortened. (One of them has 16 verses!) This is one of our favourites. It was originally a wedding hymn but we sing it to celebrate our enjoyment of 'the fellowship of the saints'1 THOU God of truth and love,We seek thy perfect way,Ready thy choice to approve,Thy providence to obey:Enter into thy wise design,And sweetly lose our will in thine. 2 Why hast thou cast our lotIn the same age and place?And why together broughtTo see each other's face?To join with softest sympathy,And mix our friendly souls in thee? 3 Didst thou not make us one,That we might one remain,Together travel on,And bear each other's pain;Till all thy utmost goodness prove,And rise renewed in perfect love? 4 Surely thou didst uniteOur kindred spirits here,That all hereafter mightBefore thy throne appear;Meet at the marriage of the Lamb,And all thy glorious love proclaim. 5 Then let us ever bearThe blessed end in view,And join, with mutual care,To fight our passage through;And kindly help each other on,Till all receive the starry crown. 6 O may thy Spirit sealOur souls unto that day,With all thy fulness fill,And then transport away!Away to our eternal rest,Away to our Redeemer's breast!
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.-William GurnallTemptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.-John Bunyan
Here's one that I think sums up my sentiment's about all you good people here;Christian Quotation of the DayJanuary 25, 2004 Feast of the Conversion of Paul The church is unique in that it is so able to cut across age boundaries and social-status boundaries. When one loves the Lord Jesus Christ and sincerely seeks to follow Him, then one quite by surprise comes upon a community that he did not know existed, a community that is experienced within the heart; and when this community is found, nothing is ever quite the same again. ... Gerald J. Jud (1919- ) http://www.cqod.org/cqodlist.htm
Making heaven on earth is our business.-William Booth
If your faith can't be tested, it can't be trusted.
When filled with holy truth the mind rests.—C.H. Spurgeon
If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we refuse to go in offering ourselves to God. We hover around these reservations, making believe not to see them, for fear of self-reproach.The more we shrink from giving up any such reserved point, the more certain it is that it needs to be given up. If we were not fast bound by it, we should not make so many efforts to persuade ourselves that we are free. ... François Fénelon (1651-1715), Spiritual Letters http://www.cqod.org/
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."-Jim Elliot, martyred in Ecuador in 1956
"Is what you're living for worth Christ dying for?"- Epitaph of Leonard Ravenhill
"One life to live and soon it will be past. Only things done for Christ will ever truly last."- unknown
"Some people complain that God placed thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns."- unknown
"Beware of prayerless tears and beware of tearless prayers." - Unknown
"Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary."- Thomas Betterton
"Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray."- Charles H. Brent
"Don't be afraid of tomorrow -- God is already there."- unknown
"Your character is who you are when no one but God is watching you."- unknown
"Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry?Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die?Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand?Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you DAMNED?"- Leonard Ravenhill
"The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is.The evening services show how popular your pastor is.Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!"- Leonard Ravenhill
"One life to liveand soon it will be past.Only things done for Christwill ever truly last."- unknownI love this quote, ravenhill quotes it in his sermon 'the judgement seat of christ'. Here is the next stanza:And When I am dying,how happy I'll be,If the lamp of my lifehas been burned out for Thee.-Author Unknown
"The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God. It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth. You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time."- John Mott
"Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still." - E.M. Bounds
"When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words, than thy words without a heart."- John Bunyan
"God gave us music that we might be able to pray without using words."- unknown
"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."- Corrie Ten Boom
"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."~K.Authur
"People talk about the curse of sin, but they do not understand that the whole nature has been infected by sin, and that the curse is on everything. My intellect, has that been defiled by sin? Terribly, and the curse of sin is on it, and therefore my intellect must go down into the death. Ah, I believe that the Church of Christ suffers more to-day from trusting in intellect, in sagacity, in culture, and in mental refinement, than from almost anything else. The Spirit of the world comes in, and men seek by their wisdom, and by their knowledge, to help the Gospel, and they rob it of its crucifixion mark. Christ directed Paul to go and preach the Gospel of the cross, but to do it not with wisdom of words. The curse of sin is on all that is of nature." from the Chapter "Dead With Christ" in "The Master's Indwelling". (1896)Andrew Murray
For all of those Krispy Kreme addicts out there..."Life without Jesus is like a donut...because there is a hole in the middle of your heart."- The Donut Man (children's evangelist):)
Our murmuring is the devil's music.—Thomas Watson
(That is so very true!)
"Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another’s life, another’s death, I stake my whole eternity."- Horatius Bonar
"If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one GO there UNWARNED and UNPRAYED for." - Charles Spurgeon
“Preach abroad….It is the cooping yourselves up in rooms that has dampened the work of God, which never was and never will be carried out to any purpose without going into the highways and hedges and compelling men and women to come in.” - Jonathon Edwards "No sort of defense is needed for preaching outdoors, but it would take a very strong argument to prove that a man who has never preached beyond the walls of his meetinghouse has done his duty. A defense is required for services within buildings rather than for worship outside of them.”- William Booth
"The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church...grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil." - Leonard Ravenhill
"One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do no constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always."- A. W. Tozer
Hi ccchhhrrriiisssyou wrote "Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another’s life, another’s death, I stake my whole eternity."- Horatius Bonar Thank you for this. It was a favourite quotation of Amy Carmichael and I quote it frequently in my preaching, but I never new where it came from. Do you know chapter and verse?
Hi, Philologos...Actually, I do not know where the quote originated. So, I did an internet search. Amazingly, I found that the quote is actually attributed to several people. However, most of the credible sites seem to confirm that this was said by Horatius Bonar. Anyway, I apologize that I could not help you.
"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to emplore His protection and favor."- George Washington
It is God's way to let ministers try all their strength first, and then He Himself comes and subdues the hearts they cannot.-Jonathan Edwards
Thanks anywayI found myself quoting it again this morning in preaching. It is such a finally tuned expression of genuine faith.
Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal which binds these holy things; let us give wings to truth that it may fly with the Word, no longer prepared at vast expense, but multitudes everlastingly by a machine which never wearies to every soul which enters life.—Johann Gutenberg
Re: by wrtbooks on 2004/2/2 15:11:02Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal which binds these holy things; let us give wings to truth that it may fly with the Word, no longer prepared at vast expense, but multitudes everlastingly by a machine which never wearies to every soul which enters life.—Johann Gutenberg So was it the printing press or the web he had in mind? :-D
So was it the printing press or the web he had in mind?The press, but I really think that the web is the next evolution of the printing press.A man full of hope will be full of action.—Thomas Brooks
We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so.—J.C. Ryle
"For Disappointments, that come not by our own Folly, they are the Tryals or Corrections of Heaven: And it is our own Fault, if they prove not our Advantage. To repine at them does not mend the Matter: It is only to grumble at our Creator. But to see the Hand of God in them, with an humble submission to his Will, is the Way to turn our Water into Wine, and engage the greatest Love and Mercy on our side."William Penn
Hi Greg,Your post:"We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so."—J.C. RyleOne truth is:" Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement."-Will RogersClutch ;-)
A dark hour makes Jesus bright.—Robert Murray McCheyne
" Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement."-Will RogersClassic quote, Clutch. If it wasn't so long I would make it my middle name. :-)
Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! thats good preaching.-Leonard Ravenhill
Greg,"Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! thats good preaching.-Leonard Ravenhill"Was probably good, but almost as certainly long. :-D Clutch :-P
"Revival comes inspite of the evangelist"-Ravi Zacharies
Jake wrote: "For Disappointments, that come not by our own Folly, they are the Tryals or Corrections of Heaven: And it is our own Fault, if they prove not our Advantage. To repine at them does not mend the Matter: It is only to grumble at our Creator. But to see the Hand of God in them, with an humble submission to his Will, is the Way to turn our Water into Wine, and engage the greatest Love and Mercy on our side."Hi JakeThank you for this gem from Penn. This is not a 'back-handed compliment' but there is something about the gentle boldness of these men which almost has me on my chair cheering.If there are forum readers who have not yet read No Cross, No Crown by William Penn, it ought to go high on your list. (For readers from Pennsylvania is ought to be obligatory ;-) )Thanks again Jake,
Our lives are to be indisputable evidence of the resurection of Jesus Christ.-Carter Conlon
The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.~Oswald Chambers
Where reason cannot wade there faith may swim.—Thomas Watson
Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.-Oswald Chambers
“I know men, and I tell you that Jesus is not a man. The religion of Christis a mystery which subsists by its own force, and proceeds from a mindwhich is not a human mind. We find in it a marked individuality, whichoriginated a train of words and actions unknown before. Jesus is not aphilosopher, for His proofs are miracles, and from the first His disciplesadored Him. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and myself founded empires;but on what foundation did we rest the creatures of our genius? Uponforce. But Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hourmillions of men would die for Him. I die before my time, and my body willbe given back to the earth to become food for worms. Such is the fate ofhim who has been called the great Napoleon. What an abyss between mydeep misery and the eternal kingdom of Christ, which is proclaimed, loved,adored, and is still existing over the whole earth!” Then, turning to Gen.Bertrand, the emperor added: “If you do not perceive that Jesus Christ isGod, I did wrong in appointing you a general.”Napoleon BonapartaReally great statement! I was amazed when read that these words are from Napoleon. (hmm maybe someone knows more about this ?!)
Prayer can do anything that God can do.—E.M. Bounds
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated through this book...All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.-Abraham Lincoln
Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.-Charles Finney
"What I have seen in the past 10 years of traveling- performing at a church one day and a casino the next- is that a lot of people in the church want to be entertained, and people in casinos want to be ministered to. That's hard to understand, but I see a hunger in the world that I don't see in the church."-Ricky Shaggs (muscian)
Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.—Matthew Henry
Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not their capacity for meditation, but their capacity for suffering and love. For there is a hard and costly element, a deep seriousness, a crucial choice, in all genuine religion. ... Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941)_______________________________________________________________Meditation: Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. -- Matthew 16:24,25 (KJV)http://www.cqod.org/
"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."Gilbert K. Chesterton
If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point. ... Martin Luther (1483-1546)http://www.cqod.org/
Don't try to bring the Word of God down to your level. Let it pull you up to its level - David MacDonald
“Let those,” he very beautifully says to the Manichæans, “burn with hatred against you, who do not know how much pains it costs to find the truth, how hard it is to guard against error;—but I, who after so great and long wavering came to know the truth, must bear myself towards you with the same patience which my fellow-believers showed towards me while I was wandering in blind madness in your opinions.”Augustin