Great Quotes 16

The Church has halted somewhere between Calvary and Pentecost.
- J. I. Bruce

"And where sin is not cured power cannot flow."

- A.W. Tozer, Paths to Power

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that aliment, whose property is to feed it.
Hannah More

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.
- David Brainerd

Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.
- R.A. Torrey

It is not mere reading, but meditation -- "meditation all the day," as the Psalmist says -- which extracts the sweetness and the power out of Scripture.
- James Stalker

As you read, pause frequently to meditate on the meaning of what you are reading. Absorb the Word into your system by dwelling on it, pondering it, going over it again and again in your mind, considering it from many different angles, until it becomes part of you.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

I know of no way to experience unbroken union and communion with our beloved Lord Jesus apart from a conscious, deliberate choice to spend time alone with Him each morning.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Do not lose yourself in your everyday work and activities. Rather, lose yourself in God. When you are doing work, let your innermost heart be centered on Him. Live in His presence and abide in Him. Then your work will follow you into eternity, and you will reap a rich harvest.
- Basilea Schlink

When we find our souls at all declining, it is best to raise them up presently by some awakening meditations, such as of the presence of God, of the strict reckoning we are to make, of the infinite love of God in Christ and the fruits of it, of the excellency of a Christian's calling, of the short and uncertain time of this life, of how little good all those things that steal away our hearts will do us before long, and of how it shall be for ever with us hereafter, as we spend this short time well or ill. The more we make way for such considerations to sink into our hearts, the more we shall rise nearer to that state of soul which we shall enjoy in heaven.
- Richard Sibbes

Continued meditation brings great profit to the soul. Passant and transient thoughts are more pleasant, but not so profitable. Deliberate meditation is of most use because it secures the return of the thoughts.
- Thomas Manton

The end of study is information, and the end of meditation is practice, or a work upon the affections. Study is like a winter sun, that shines, but warms not: but meditation is like a blowing upon the fire, where we do not mind the blaze, but the heat. The end of study is to hoard up truth; but of meditation to lay it forth in conference or holy conversation.
- Thomas Manton

What is the reason there is so much preaching and so little practice? For want of meditation.... Constant thoughts are operative, and musing makes the fire burn. Green wood is not kindled by a flash or spark, but by constant blowing.
- Thomas Manton

Meditation is love's nourishment.
- Jack Hyles

The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it.
- Charles Spurgeon

Each time we surrender our minds to meditate on base and sordid objects their grip on our lives is intensified. To think we can decrease our affinity for sinful pleasure apart from a concentrated fixation on the spiritually sublime is simply delusional. (Phil. 4:8)
- Sam Storms

When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that man is full of boldness and is successful.
- D.L. Moody

Now, as old Dr. Bonner, of Glasgow, said, "The Lord didn't show Joshua how to use the sword, but He told him how he should meditate on the Lord day and night, and then he would have good success."
- D.L. Moody

So often we try to develop Christian character and conduct without taking the time to develop God-centered devotion. We try to please God without taking the time to walk with Him and develop a relationship with Him. This is impossible to do.
- Jerry Bridges

The person who never meditates with delight on the glory of Christ in the Scriptures now will not have any real desire to see that glory in heaven. What sort of faith and love do people have who find time to think about many other things but make no time for meditating on this glorious subject?
- John Owen

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
- C.S. Lewis

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
- David Brainerd

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation being the soul of prayer and the intention of our spirit.
- Jeremy Taylor

It is not hasty reading, but seriously meditating upon holy and heavenly truths that makes them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.
- Joseph Hall

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long removes, she discerneth God, as if he were nearer at hand.
- Owen Feltham

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.
- Charles Stanley

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.
- Charles Stanley

The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.
- Charles Stanley

In place of our exhaustion and spiritual fatigue, God will give us rest. All He asks is that we come to Him...that we spend a while thinking about Him, meditating on Him, talking to Him, listening in silence, occupying ourselves with Him - totally and thoroughly lost in the hiding place of His presence.
- Charles Swindoll

Take this as the secret of Christ's life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you!
- Watchman Nee

The sweet spices of divine works must be beaten to powder by meditation, and then laid up in the cabinet of our memories.
- Abraham Wright

I will conclude with that excellent saying of Bernard: "Lord, I will never come away from Thee without Thee." Let this be a Christian's resolution, not to leave off his meditations of God till he find something of God in him.
- Thomas Watson

Meditate on what you read (Psm. 199:15). The Hebrew word for "meditate" means to be intense in the mind. Meditation without reading is wrong and bound to err; reading without meditation is barren and fruitless.
- Thomas Watson

The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is, because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.
- Thomas Watson

The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.
- Austin Phelps

"Let us take, for example, John 3:16, the most repeated verse in the Bible. The KJB renders monogenes as only begotten, but the NIV as one and only, clipping out the begotten. The doctrine of eternal generation of the Son, held time immemorial by the universal Church, is forever struck out by the NIV. By the anointing of the Holy Spirit you can judge between the KJB and NIV. You have the answer." - Timothy Tow

"It bothers me when people say, "We believe that the Bible, in the original manuscripts, is the Word of God." If that's true, we have no Bible. Did you hear what I said? We have no Bible. One day they did, but WE don't." - Jack Hyles

Listen, we don't want the intellectual community to think of us as being nincompoops, but I'd rather have a nincompoop with a revelation from God than to have an intellectual without a revelation from God. - Jack Hyles

"Speaking from my experience as a Certified Chinese Interpreter of the Supreme Court, Singapore in my young days, whenever there was any doubt in the translation of a Chinese document into English, the Judge would know exactly and objectively what the original says, and not some dynamic equivalent, the subjective NIV style." - Timothy Tow

"There are many who let down in sickness and do not take hold of the life of the Lord Jesus Christ that is provided for them. I was taken to see a woman who was dying and said to her, "How are things with you?" She answered, "I have faith, I believe." I said, "You know that you have not faith, you know that you are dying. It is not faith that you have, it is language." There is a difference between language and faith. I saw that she was in the hands of the devil. There was no possibility of life until he was removed from the premises. I hate the devil, and I laid hold of the woman and shouted, "Come out, you devil of death. I command you to come out in the name of Jesus." In one minute she stood on her feet in victory." - Smith Wigglesworth

"Doctor, the God who made this body is the one who can cure it. No knife shall ever cut it as long as I live" - Smith Wigglesworth

Do not distress yourself about your prayers. It is not always necessary to employ words, even inwardly, it is enough to raise your heart and let it rest in our Lord, to look lovingly up toward this divine Lover of our souls for between lovers the eyes speak more eloquently than the tongue.

Francis de Sales

If you found a cure for a terminal disease that you knew many other people had but you didn't tell them about it then you either think very little of the cure or very little of them.
- various

In the book of Acts it was not a forced thing:
"we cannot help but speak" about what we have seen and heard.
Acts 4:20

Even the 'smallest' of sins can reveal an unsubmissive and rebellious heart. Someone...ate an apple.

~anonymous

1 John 1:7
If we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

You can sing about Calvary all you want but the blood of Christ will not avail if you are not walking in the light. Calvary will not cover what we don't uncover.

- Bob Jennings

But if we turn our hearts; bold, free, forgiveness, forever by the blood of Jesus Christ the Son of God. Sins forgiven, what a glory. Here is where you will find the power, here is where you will find the joy.

- Bob Jennings

"Russian Bible Church has no senior pastor, because Christ takes this position. Our ministers are only co-pastors."
- SGA Canada Newsletter May 2013

"From all the world to all the world."

"Cannibals need missionaries."

If you truly want to follow the steps of the one who was MARRED..then you cannot avoid a life that will be SCARRED...Scott Hynds

Some Christians are like James bond martinis...shaken and not stirred..Scott Hynds

I tell you this that those that are drawn ever closer to the Masters bosom find that they walk on their Knees and not their feet...Scott Hynds

I tell you this I have saw more in the black pit than I have in the green pastures..Scott Hynds

Where there is a suffering saint there is a strengthening Saviour...Scott Hynds

The devil walks about like a roaring lion..but i tell you i know one and Hes the lion tamer..Scott Hynds

trench warfare has no pretty flowers beneath your feet. Scott Hynds

Love matures not when someone passes you a daisy chain ..but rather when someone passes you a thorn..Scott Hynds

Here is a question..if i post " God wants to bless you "..how many thumbs up do i get on Facebook...then if i post " God wants you to suffer "..how many thumbs up will i get for that one....1 pet 4:19" Wherefore let them suffer according to the will of God "..." ALL SCRIPTURE IS INSPIRED BY GOD "...It would be remiss of me as minister of Christ not to give you ALL of the truth and not SOME of the truth..Scott Hynds

For some preachers they cant look outside the box..the moneybox that is..Scott Hynds

Col 3:16 " Let the word of Christ DWELL in you richly "..Christs word seek a home and not a hotel...Scott Hynds

"The supreme test of service is this: For whom am I doing this? Much that we call service to Christ is not such at all....If we are doing this for Christ, we shall not care for human reward or even recognition."
- A. T. Pierson

"If there is any way that this lost power from apostolic days may be recovered to the Church, it is most likely going to be from the severe school of fasting and prayer. A Church half-asleep and a world wholly dead waits for such a renaissance."
- A. T. Pierson

Modern man is a smart fool. All his life he wants to live, yet actually he spends his time dying. Unless he accepts Christ as his Savior, he lives without finding life. –Leonard Ravenhill

Ministers who fail to feed men with the Bread of Life feed men who will fail. –Leonard Ravenhill

It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere but home.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

We need holy vessels. Until God's people are put right [repentance] we cannot possibly expect any great change or any increased power or blessing.

Condemnation is the one "nation" to which God has commanded us not to go.

- Danny Lehmann

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control."

Galatians 5:22,23

"Never do anything others can do or will do, when there are things to be done that others can't do or won't"
– Dawson Trotman

“Nothing that does not occur daily will ever dominate your life”
– Dr. Ralph D. Winter

"If it is worth doing, it is worth doing poorly"
- Dr. Ralph D. Winter

This is a slight variation of a quote from GK Chesterton:

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."

"The gifts of the Spirit only prove that God can use a man, but the fruit of the Spirit prove that God can change a man." ~ Mark Casto

We believe that God sees us from above - but He sees us from the inside.

"You can't lose if you put yourself completely in God's hands."
- from "Chasing the Dragon" by Jackie Pullinger

"Someday you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody of East Northfield is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal -- a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious body." -- D.L. Moody

"I would rather have a Master of Prayer than a M.A. from both universities [Oxford and Cambridge]. He who knows how to pray has his hand on the leverage which moves the universe."
- C.H. Spurgeon

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

I came to Jesus because I did not know which way to turn. I have remained with Him because there is no other way I wish to turn. I came to Him longing for something I did not have. I remain with Him because I have something I will not trade. I came to Him as a stranger. I remain with Him in the most intimate of friendships. I came to Him unsure about the future. I remain with Him certain about my destiny.
- Ravi Zacharias

Being alone with God has always been the secret of genuine power. Men of power in all ages have been men who knew that being alone with God was their supreme privilege and their only source of strength. We must decide how much time we will spend with Him, and the relation that shall obtain in these associations. The relation that exists determines the results. It is only when we bring to the Master a fully surrendered will that He can imbue us with unlimited power for service.

The best prayer we pray is when we pray when we don't feel like it because that is the prayer of faith not of feelings!
- K.P. Yohannan

"I would rather have zeal without knowledge than knowledge without zeal". - DL Moody

The gospel is a dynamic entity that propels people and churches into the further spread of it. It is the nature of the gospel as a powerful force to go forth in mission.

An easy way to sin… Be anxious for everything and in all things avoid prayer and supplication without thanksgiving.

If we had the Spirit sealing our ministry with power, it would signify very little about talent. Men might be poor and uneducated, their words might be broken and ungrammatical; but if the might of the Spirit attended them, the humblest evangelist would be more successful than the most learned divine, or the most eloquent of preachers.

- C.H. Spurgeon

"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say."

-Martin Luther

"You must become what you want your child to become if you would bring him to repentance. You must become a person of joy, peace, and love. You must know God and love him. You must be disciplined and holy in your own personal life. You must tend to your marriage so that it becomes the envy of all who know you well." - Michael Pearl

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

Those who are in the Lord Jesus Christ will always overcome because the work of Jesus cannot fail. The success of the plan of God is not in our strength or weakness. Grace is the plan and we who are in Christ will always enjoy victory.

Walking in deception and walking in truth takes the same amount of energy but leads in opposite directions. Choose wisely. ~ Howard Pittman

"Will you humble yourself, not for the underdog, but for the Holy One? "- Tom Wilcutt

"How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God."

- Lottie Moon

"Why should we not ... instead of the paltry offerings we make, do something that will prove that we are really in earnest in claiming to be followers of him who, though he was rich, for our sake became poor?"

- Lottie Moon

"Is not the festive season when families and friends exchange gifts in memory of The Gift laid on the altar of the world for the redemption of the human race, the most appropriate time to consecrate a portion from abounding riches and scant poverty to send forth the good tidings of great joy into all the earth?"

- Lottie Moon

"I would I had a thousand lives that I might give them to ... China!"

- Lottie Moon

"Thirty miles from Pingtu city is a gold mine. Nestled close among low-lying hills are two foreign houses and the buildings over the mine. Several American miners are there in the employ of the Chinese government. These men are living a hard, dull, isolated life, in a remote region, far from home and friends, with the sole purpose of worldly gain. So much for the devotees of Mammon. One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls?"

- Lottie Moon

To be much like Christ, we must be much with Christ.

Attachment to Christ is the secret of detachment from the world.

Have you noticed how quickly your iPhone battery loses its power during the day without regular charging? What about your spiritual life without regular communion with the Lord?

Would to God that the Holy Ghost, who dwelleth in us, found nothing within to impede Him, and nothing to restrain His influences!
- Spurgeon

Stanley said of Livingstone: "For four months and four days I lived with him in the same house, or in the same boat, or in the same tent, and I never found a fault in him. ...Each day’s life with him added to my admiration for him."

Quiet Times are not optional. Our ability to stay with God in our closet measures our ability to stay with God out of the closet.

"Taking up the cross" does not mean an inconvenience or a burden we must bear, it is a life we must surrender unreservedly.

God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love - Richard Wurmbrand

"When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die."

- Jim Elliot

"Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!"

- Jim Elliot

In John 17 Jesus sets forth the Christian's position as taken out of the world (v. 6) not of the world (v. 14) kept from the evil of the world (v. 15) left in the world (v. 11) sent into the world to preach to the world (vv. 18, 20) and as a result, hated by the world (v. 14). The Scriptures speak of the ruler of this world (John 12:31) of the course of this world (Ephesians 2:2) which is according to the god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4) of the spirit of this world which is contrary to the Spirit of God (1 Corinthians 2:12) of the form of this world which is passing away (1 Corinthians 7:31) and of the wisdom of this world which crucified the Lord of glory (1 Corinthians 2:8). God says, Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world””the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life””is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever (1 John 2:15-17).

"It's easier to go down a hill than up it, but the view is much better at the top.”
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887);
Clergyman, Social Reformer

If you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it. - William Smith

You don't forgive someone for their sake; you do it for your sake, so you can be free. Your need to forgive isn't an issue between you and the offender; it's between you and God. - William Smith

Forgiveness is agreeing to live with the consequences of another person's sin. Forgivenss is costly. You pay the price for the evil you forgive. You're going to live with those consequences whether you want to or not; your only choice is whether you will so in the bitterness of unforgivenss of the freedom of forgiveness.- William Smith

In ourselves, we didn't win any battles. Only through Jesus Christ were we victorious. Only through Jesus Christ were our enemies defeated. Only through Jesus Christ were we set free. - William Smith

"Much prayer, much power."

- Peter Deyneka

It holds almost universally in the history of the church, that until a doctrine has been fully discussed in a controversial way by men of talent and learning taking opposite sides, men's opinions regarding it are generally obscure and indefinite, and their language vague and confused, if not contradictory. - William Cunningham -

Great quote savannah.

"It is the man who lives in the Word of God and whose life is shaped and governed by it who is the kind of workman God approves."

- K.P. Yohannan

"Through our attitude to His Word, God tests us to see whether we are ready to live with Him for eternity or not."

- Zac Poonen

"the truly humble person usually does not know he is humble, nor does he care. To strive for humility and believe you have reached it is to arrive at pride. To strive for humility and not reach it is to wallow in self-pity and condemnation, which is just another expression of pride." - Michael Pearl

"Stop considering your humility and use your energies and confidence to help others." - Michael Pearl

It is in the nature of God to speak. When we get alone with our Bible open before us, we draw near to God and begin to hear Him speak

"The Lord has chosen us for His people..that we should proclaim His gospel, and with the net of His Word fish His chosen ones out of the sea of this world."

- Michael Waldner

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
- Hudson Taylor

"Truth is by nature divisive. It's far more important to be divided by the truth than united by error." -John MacArthur #StrangeFire

"If the Lord’s people were only half as eager to be filled with the Spirit as they are to prove that they cannot be filled, the church would be crowded out.”
- A. W. Tozer

"You learn about God and then you tell another. If you don't tell others, neither you nor the gospel will grow." - Xiri Xiri, a member of a tribal village in Brazil

"All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet."

- Samuel Logan Brengle

"The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain with the Lord Jesus and the surrounding influence and qualities produced BY that relationship."
”• Oswald Chambers

Make yourself have the supreme priority of continually getting to know the Lord.
- KP Yohannnan

The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer, nor those who say they believe in prayer, nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I mean these people who take time and pray. They have not time. It must be taken from something else. This something else is important, very important, and pressing, but still less important and less pressing than prayer. There are people that put prayer first, and group the other items in life's schedule around and after prayer.
- S. D. Gordon

"Christ's cross is the sweetest burden that ever I bore: it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails are to a ship." -S. Rutherford

Live on the cross. The cross is the abnegation of our will. On the cross is heaven because Jesus is there.
- St Teresa of the Andes

"The Cross is heaven. To follow him and bear his cross is so sweet and precious that if I find no cross to bear in heaven I shall plead before him to send me as his missionary to bear his cross."
- Sadhu Sundar Singh

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

Those who have been justified are now being sanctified; those who have no experience of present sanctification have no reason to suppose they have been justified.

--F.F. Bruce

"Confidence in God is, in fact, the beginning of Heaven, and I think it is a part of the very fruition of Heaven itself!"
- Spurgeon

"Doing good will never save you, no matter how hard (or long) you work or how much you achieve. But when you have [truly] believed [in the love of Christ] you are going to do good as a result, because the Holy Spirit, who lives in you as a Christian, wants to do good through you."
- George Verwer

We reach a plateau in our relationship with Christ unless we begin leading others to Christ.
- David Platt

The temptation and danger is that we will begin to love our mission more than we love our savior. If that is true, then our savior will have no part of the mission.

Perhaps there is no special word in the New Testament as 'missionary' because God expects all His children to cross the street and oceans?

Nik Ripkin

Disciple-making is about being so hungry for God that you pour His word…into your heart and then into another person.

How To Start A Revival

Gypsy Smith was once asked how to start a revival.

He answered: "Go home, lock yourself in your room, kneel down in the middle of your floor. Draw a chalk mark all around yourself and ask God to start the revival inside that chalk mark. When He has answered your prayer, the revival will be on.”

I believe the Lord wants us to live in a continual stare of seeing Him as everything and being content in Him alone.

Be much in secret prayer. Converse less with man, and more with God.
- George Whitefield

The way of the Wind is the way of greatest emptiness;
The way for the Water is the place of the lowest depth;
The way for the Lightning is along the line of the greatest weakness.
‘If any man lack’ ”“ there is God’s condition for His inflow.
- Lilias Trotter

"I would rather die in the will of God than live any longer in my own will."
- Lin Huo-ping (Peace Lin), mother of Watchman Nee.

He discovered that despite their illiteracy, these women had come to an intimate knowledge of the Lord. "I knew the Book they haltingly read; they knew the One whom the Book spoke." He was having his first encounter with a divine principle that, "apart from Me you can do nothing." (John 15:15)

"What percentage of your church's budget goes to missions?"

We need to be out testing our theology rather than mindlessly teaching/learning it.

"We need to be out testing our theology rather than mindlessly teaching/learning it."

Now that is painfully true and profound!

We misunderstand temperament, skill and abilities as the annointing and calling of God!
- K.P.

The world and even ordinary believers are waiting for a demonstration of power. When will we get back to prayer?

"The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray."
- Chuck Smith

"We should not ask ourselves 'What Would Jesus Do?' The problem with WWJD? is that it teaches separation. 'If Jesus was here, what would He do?' as if Jesus isn't here with us. It should be WWWDJ? 'What Will We Do, Jesus?'"
- Stewart Moulds, former UK Director of WEC International

"We are a supernatural people, born again by a supernatural birth, kept by a supernatural power, sustained on supernatural food, taught by a supernatural Teacher, from a supernatural Book. We are led by a supernatural Captain in right paths to assured victories.”
”” Hudson Taylor

"You're either a missionary or a mission field."
- Loren Cunningham

"There are many different ways to present the Gospel to people. The gospel needs to be seen as good news to every culture, people group, language, nationality and even each person's particular needs."

"Love is intentional and it requires action, it is not a feeling, it is an awareness of those around us and a purposeful desire to break into their world and to understand them."

- Dan Button

"Mr. Moody, I don’t like the way you do evangelism!”

"Ma’am, how do you do it?”

"I don’t.”

"I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it!”

You don’t need to be perfect to inspire others. Let people get inspired by how you deal with your imperfection.
- Wilson Kanadi

Worry is sin. Rejoicing is God's will in any circumstance.

We are not fighting to win a victory; we are celebrating the victory that has been won.

The secret of victory is not praying but praising, not asking but thanking.

"God forbid ease that would fail to develop in us faith and utter dependence upon our Lord, or ease that would substitute some other mediator between Him and us."
- Joy Ridderhof

One writer aptly sets forth the essential missionary character of the Bible by describing it as the story of God’s search for man, in contrast with all other sacred books, which are the story of man’s search for God. Then follow these words: This divine search of the Creator for His child begins with the first chapter of Genesis, and does not end until the closing words of Revelation. God Himself is thus seen as the first and greatest Missionary, and the whole Bible as the revelation of His successive outreaches into the soul of man.

The concealing and the neglect of certain vital truths have always been the chief characteristic of the life of the Church in every period of deadness and of declension.

Secondly, no revival has ever been known in the history of the churches which deny or ignore certain essential truths.

-Martin Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) on Revival

Bibleless people groups are a social justice issue.

All the good stuff from God is on the other side of genuine repentance.

"We do not often realize that for nearly 300 years the Reformation did virtually nothing for worldwide evangelization. God had to pour out His Spirit on that little company of people [Moravians] and get them moving. God changed an introspective and quarreling congregation into a world-changing missions movement through prayer and revival."
- Patrick Johnstone

"As we breathe without ceasing, so must we pray without ceasing. As there is no attainment in life, of health, or of strength, or of muscular vigor which can place a man beyond the necessity of breathing, so no condition of spiritual growth or advance in grace will allow a man to dispense with prayer."
- Spurgeon

Our ministry is not what we do, but what we do is from who we are.
The quality of your inner life will determine your influence. You can never give what you don't have. Our fellowship with God determines our quality of life.

Because we do not see Him as He is, we live a life of defeat. Our eyes are unsteady looking in two directions, one eye upon the Lord, and one upon the world.

With many believers, they have one eye upon the Lord, and the other upon something else. That is why they become spiritually blind. When you really want to see him, your eyes should be only upon Him.

We waste our time looking at persons and things which have no concern with us, and that is why our life is so barren.

Many years ago I was sailing from Liverpool to Canada. A newly married couple was in the same ship. They were always together. They wanted no one else to come near them. They were so absorbed in each other wherever they went they took no notice of people around them. Their eyes were only on each other. Our Lord has the same desire that nothing else should draw away our attention. He would have us keep looking at Him.

You may perhaps ask Him for many things such as a job, or physical healing. But these disciples has no such requests. They said, "Master, where dwellest thou?" Those who have seen the Lord Jesus Christ have a string longing, "Where is my Lord? Where does He live?"
You can find Him only when you earnestly seek Him.

"They looked into Him and their faces were radiant." Who were these people? They were those who had once had shameful and ugly faces, where you could see the blackness of sin. But now, having seen Him, their faces shine. They became radiant. A new heavenly beauty came upon their faces." You see so many Christians pray regularly and attend many meetings and also take part in what the call communion service, but their faces are black with shameful spots. No doubt they are called by the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, but the marks of sin and shame can be seen on their faces.

But David is saying from true experience, in Psalm 34:5 "They looked unto Him and their faces were radiant." The men that had come to David with grumbling and murmuring, sorrowful faces now saw David's face shining even in the dark cave of Adhullam. They also learned to look unto the Lord, and their faces also began to shine. Divine glory and beauty were shining upon their faces, in spite of their poverty and sickness.

This beauty, which God gives, will not come with using soap or powder or cream or by wearing jewels of gold and silver. How foolish some people are! They think by using such things they can become beautiful. They think by worldly shameful means they can become beautiful. In fact in this way they become uglier. It is only when our fears go away and we conquer our trials by faith then we can have faces shining with the glory of God.

"He that leaves off prayer leaves off the fear of God. ‘You cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God ‘ (Job 15: 4). A man that leaves off prayer is capable of any wickedness. When Saul had given up inquiring of God he went to the witch of Endor"
- Thomas Watson

I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.
- Hudson Taylor

Bible engagement is intimately tied to relationships (vertically and horizontally). The degree to which people believe in Christ, obey Christ and seek to live for Christ correlates with the degree to which they’ll engage with the Bible. Similarly, the degree to which people connect with a community of faith correlates with the degree to which they will confidently connect with the Bible.

Death has an indescribable charm to the believer in Jesus, it is the birthday of his immortality. It is the epoch of glory. It is then that the life within germinates and expands; it is then that the believer really begins to live. In the inventory of the covenant, death ranks among the chief of its blessings. It is the precious privilege of the believer in Christ.

Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation.

~ William Symington

It is here, in prayer, that we win the battle of maintaining spirituality in our lives - actually, it is not we who maintain spirituality in ourselves, but the Lord himself who does the maintaining as we rest in him. God maintains our spirituality as we, by his strength and in gratitude for his mercy and love, serve others out of our desire to please him.
- Helen Roseveare

"The church is at the height of apostasy when it says obedience is legalism." -David Wilkerson

"The world can do almost anything as well as or better than the Church. You need not be a Christian to build houses, feed the hungry, or heal the sick. There is only one thing the world cannot do. It cannot offer grace.”

O momentary grace of mortal men,
which we hunt for than the grace of God.
- Shakespeare

By tradition, one wears faith with the solemnity of a mourner, the gravity of a mask of tragedy, and the dedication of a Rotary badge.

"In the measure in which you and I are willing to die daily, in that same measure will life be produced in others."

- K.P. Yohannan

In every life there is one place where God must have "elbow room.” We must not pass judgment on others, nor must we make a principle of judging out of our own experience. It is impossible for a man to know the views of Almighty God.

~Oswald Chambers

"A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice." - Ralph Venning (Written in the Preface to, "Milk And Honey; Or, A Miscellaneous Collation Of Many Christian Experiences, Sayings, Sentences, And Several Places Of Scripture Improved".)

We can choose to sin but the consequences are out of our control. ~Denny Eicher

You will only continue to experience revival as you desire revival. ~Denny Eicher

We have a desire to grow fast and therefore speed is critical. We want to have the benefit of experience without having had the experience. It is as though we think we can download spiritual software from some movement, conference or teacher and then we can use it for spiritual overdrive. The longing for the ‘quick fix’ is usually the sin of impatience masquerading as faith and commitment. Deep wounds have to heal from the inside out and that can take a while. If you try and speed God up ”“ or slow him down - it usually goes wrong and you end up being sidelined for a period so you learn to move at His pace and not your own. The great irony is that once you get into the slow rhythmic walk of following the Lord, it becomes remarkable how fast God moves things along.

"What we want is a joyful church, and we are not going to convert the world until we have it. We want to get this long-faced Christianity off the face of the earth."
- D.L. Moody

"The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity, it’s waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.” ~ Leonard Ravenhill

"Our failure to disown all is undoubtedly why we still live consistently from our own thoughts and impulses, and our own well-meaning religious intentions. God calls our well meaning intentions unrighteous and wicked because we put them before His. We will never submit to His will as long as we think that we have significant, important abilities and qualities that might be of value to God's purposes. Unless we are utterly convinced that "nothing good dwells in me" we will be unwilling for our "death". Our water baptism will only be performed out of biblical obligation." Art Katz

If a man had perfect love to God, he would have no fear
of anything””for what would he have to dread? He would
have no fear of death, for he would have nothing to dread
beyond the grave. It is guilt that makes people fear what
is to come; but he whose sins are pardoned, and whose
heart is filled with the love of God, has nothing to dread in
this world or the world to come.

”” Albert Barnes

"The foundation for learning to walk with the Lord begins with the humility to act on God’s thoughts instead of our own."
- K.P. Yohannan

"God works through men. I see nowhere in the Word where God picks an organization.” - Dawson Trotman

"An easy-going non-self-denying life will never be one of power.”
- Hudson Taylor

Iniquity breeds iniquity
- Basilea Schlink

"Studying the Bible in such a thorough way is a pleasure for us. I am very happy that it has become my profession. There is a saying in my mother tongue language, ‘It’s like getting paid a salary for eating sugar cane.’” ”“ a national Wycliffe Bible translator from South Asia

"If you believe, or entertain, anything that touches, or takes away from, or dishonors, the person, the nature, or the work of the LORD Jesus Christ, you are under the influence of a seducing spirit." - Derek Prince

When you have done this, "Add to your knowledge self-control.” Take heed to your body””be temperate without. Take heed to your soul””be temperate within. Get temperance of lip, life, heart, and thought.

Charles Spurgeon

"Temptation is not temptation if you are not attracted to it." - Zac Poonen

"My body is in prison, but my soul is free."

Words from an ex-muslim in hiding in Afghanistan.