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"Where do you go to when you want wisdom? Do you go to Austin-Sparks, or Watchman Nee, or Martin Luther or Dr. Lloyd-Jones? Thank God for every one of these gifts to the church. But you will not grow spiritually if you are just going to an agency. Those persons are only conductors, introducers. And if you do not get as far as the feet of Christ, virtually you have got nowhere. Because all the fulness is there." - Raymond Golsworthy

"Colossians 3:4: "Christ who is our life”. He is not only our Saviour, He is not only our Lord, but God tells us that He is our very life." - Raymond Golsworthy

"Too busy; O forgive, Dear Lord, that I should ever be, too much
engrossed in earthly tasks, to spend an hour with thee." - A.B. Christiansen

"Habitual faithfulness in judging the flesh in little things is the secret of not falling." - J.N. Darby

"Oh to be nothing, nothing, only to lie at His feet." - Hans R. Waldvogel (1893-1969)

"It is always good to have mountains to right and left, an enemy behind and the sea in front, for then faith has its opportunity." - Watchman Nee

"You find Him in the Valley of humility. You find Him on the cross. 'Even so he that eateth Me shall live by Me.' Here is the Lamb that was sacrificed, and He calls upon me to present my body a living sacrifice-not to be a boss, not to be great, but to come down, to learn of Him meekness, lowliness of heart. How wonderful that God doesn't ask great things of us, but quite the opposite: 'Come down.'" - Hans R. Waldvogel

"Oh, God, make us hungry for Jesus Christ! Take away every other desire from us””every other pursuit. And make our hearts to be so hungry to know Jesus Christ." - Hans R. Waldvogel

"None of you can be strong in God unless you are diligently and constantly hearkening to what God has to say to you through His Word. You cannot know the power and the nature of God unless you partake of His inbreathed Word. Read it at morn and at night, and at every opportunity you get." - Smith Wigglesworth

"There is no movement forward in the realm of the spiritual unless there is a denying of something in the physical." - Alan Redpath

"There is a judgment coming! People have their reckoning days & God will at last have His. The trumpet shall sound. The dead shall be raised incorruptible. The books shall be opened & the evidence brought forth. Our true character will come out before the world."

~ J.C. Ryle
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"A church should be a camp of soldiers, not a hospital of invalids.” - C.H. Spurgeon

"At God's counter there are no "SALE DAYS," for the price of revival is ever the same -TRAVAIL." - Leonard Ravenhill

"Our mistake is that we want God to send revival on our terms. We want to get the power of God into our hands, to call it to us that it may work for us in promoting and furthering our kind of Christianity. We want still to be in charge, guiding the chariot through the religious sky in the direction we want it to go, shouting "Glory to God," but modestly accepting a share of the glory for ourselves in a nice inoffensive sort of way. We are calling on God to send fire on our altars, completely ignoring the fact that they are OUR altars and not God's." - A.W. Tozer

Oh, to be emptier, lowlier,
Mean, unnoticed and unknown,
And to God a vessel holier,
with Christ and Christ alone!"
- Andrew Murray

"Live out Thy life within me, O Jesus King of kings,
Be Thou Thyself the answer to all my questionings.
Live out Thy life within me; in all things have Thy way,
I Thy transparent medium, Thy glory to display.”
- Frances Ridley Havergal

"Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do." -Andrew Murray

"Repentance, and faith in Christ, and holiness of life, have never been fashionable. The true flock of Christ has always been small."

[example of humility] "All through Jesus' life He kept going down." - Zac Poonen

"The closer you live to God, the more you are able to discern people just by looking at them and talking to them, it is true, you can fool 99% of believers but you can't fool a godly man... "

~ Zac Poonen

"It is a great matter for God’s children to be delivered from pretending before man....If we set our sight upon man’s glory and man’s position in the church, we are participating in the sin of the Babylonian garment and the sin committed by Ananias and Sapphira. False consecration is sin, and false spirituality is also sin. True worship is in spirit and truthfulness. May God make us true men."

"Our gifts are very pleasant to Him. He loves to see us lay our time,
our talents, our substance on the altar not for the value of what
we give, but for the sake of the motive from which the gift springs." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that
God is all." - Andrew Murray

"When a man can talk coolly of the possibility of ‘living without sin’ while in the body, and can actually say that he has ‘never had an evil thought for three months’, I can only say that in my opinion he is a very ignorant Christian!”

- J.C. Ryle

"You can talk about me all that you please, but when I talk about you, it'll be on my knees...."

"your Love and Care for others is how often you pray for them..."

"I am more afraid of myself - my lusts and passions, and strong and horrible corruptions - than of anybody in the whole world..."

--- J.C. Philpot

"It is a great thing to be praying people. Says Christ, ‘Let me hear thy voice’ (Song 2:14). We need Him to give us a voice that is, want, real necessity, and the feeling through faith that He only can supply the want.” - J.K. Popham

"Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.”
[Proverbs 27:6]

"Satan is joining churches. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition. " - Vance Havner

"There are many who are willing to preach to thousands, but are not willing to take their seat beside one soul, and lead that soul to the blessed Jesus." - D.L. Moody

"How powerful is the tendency to worship creatures! The man-worshipping spirit so easily arises in people for those whom they greatly admire. It becomes a form of idolatry. Beware, woe to the one who touches the man-idol for whom one may fight. God help us!" - Martha Robinson

"To abide in His love, you have to do it. How? Constant cleansing by the blood of Jesus. Constant turning to the Lord." - Rex Andrews

"Prayer is so vital. Walk with Jesus through the New Testament and you'll find out His whole life was based on prayer." - Rex Andrews

"Make a habit of ministering to God, waiting on Him. You shouldn't be ministering for God if you don't know how to minister to Him." - Rex Andrews

"I would rather believe and preach unpleasant truth than to believe and preach pleasant error." - R.A. Torrey

"You know, brethren, that there is no soul living who holds more firmly to the doctrines of grace than I do, and if any man asks me whether I am ashamed to be called a Calvinist, I answer, I wish to be called nothing but a Christian; but if you ask me, do I hold the doctrinal views which were held by John Calvin, I reply, I do in the main hold them, and rejoice to avow it. But, my dear friends, far be it from me even to imagine that Zion contains none within her walls but Calvinistic Christians, or that there are none saved who do not hold our views. Most atrocious things have been spoken about the character and spiritual condition of John Wesley, the modern prince of Arminians. I can only say concerning him, that while I detest many of the doctrines which he preached, yet for the man himself, I have a reverence second to no Wesleyan; and if there were wanted two apostles to be added to the number of the twelve, I do not believe that there could be found two men more fit to be so added than George Whitfield and John Wesley. The character of John Wesley stands beyond all imputation for self-sacrifice, zeal, holiness, and communion with God; he lived far above the ordinary level of common Christians, and was one of whom the world was not worthy. I believe there are multitudes of men who cannot see these truths, or, at least, cannot see them in the way in which we put them, who nevertheless have received Christ into their hearts, and are as dear to the heart of the God of grace as the soundest Calvinist out of heaven." - C. H. Spurgeon

"I have no doubt that those who would not pray when the ark was being built, prayed when the Flood came; but their prayer was not answered. I have no doubt that when Lot went out of Sodom, Sodom cried to God; but it was too late, and God’s judgment swept them from the earth. My friend, it is not too late now, but it may be at twelve o’clock tonight. I cannot find any place in the Bible where it says you may call tomorrow. I am not justified in saying that. 'Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.'"
”” D.L. Moody

"A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit." - Watchman Nee

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark." - Charles Spurgeon

"Do not depend upon men. Put your trust in Christ alone and in his Word." - Menno Simmons

"When a man consistently dies to self day after day, there will be a fire from heaven on his life and on his ministry." - Zac Poonen

"If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not
fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is
praying for me." - Robert Murray McCheyne

"There is a glory that is worked into our lives through these trials and we get into closer fellowship with Jesus’ heart." - Zac Poonen

"When you have nothing left but God, you will find that God is more than enough." - Zac Poonen

"It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works
in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The
parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last
ones to lose Him there." - Vance Havner

"We must put away the practice of making the church look like a vanity fair in an attempt to impress carnal men and draw their interest. People are only truly drawn to Christ when He is lifted up." - Paul Washer

"I am sure that the hardest thing to get in this world is the anointing of God upon your life, and it is the hardest thing to keep also." - Leonard Ravenhill

"So the choice we make in dying daily is not between right or wrong. The choice is between my rights and a new way- Christ's way." - K.P. Yohannan

"This is how the Lord’s work is done in his way-by loving Him more than the ministry He gave us to do." - K.P. Yohannan

"God is not building a bunch of holy individuals. He is building a Body." - Zac Poonen

"If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only
obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your
intercessions from insincerity." - William Carey

"Let us count every PRESSURE a call to PRAYER.” - A.B. Simpson

"Many churches are praying for a revival, but some of them know not for what they are asking. If God were to answer their prayers they would refuse the revival when it came.” - Joseph Smale

"Already the churches of the West have abandoned their first love. Already they have moved to positions which even ten years ago many would have drawn back from in dismay. Here is the slumber of the spirit which leads to death. When will the Church awake?" - Peter Jensen

"Persevere in labors that lead to salvation. Always be busy in spiritual actions. In this way, no matter how often the enemy of our souls approaches, no matter how many times he may try to come near us, he’ll find our hearts closed and armed against him." - Cyprian of Carthage

"It is false humility to believe ourselves unworthy of God’s goodness and to not dare to look to him with trust. True humility lies in seeing our own unworthiness and giving ourselves up to God, never doubting that he can work out the greatest results for and in us. If God’s success depends on finding our foundations already laid, we might well fear that our sins had destroyed our chances. But God needs nothing that is in us. He can never find anything there except what he himself has given us.” - François Fénelon

"That is very important. The Holy Spirit is God and no one uses God. " - Derek Prince

"In the Christian life holiness is not optional.” - Derek Prince

"Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars." ”” Thomas à Kempis

"You can have as much of God as you are willing to pay the price for." - Manley Beasley

"I have often enough asserted that I do not argue whether the wine remains wine or not. It is enough for me that Christ’s blood is present; let it be with the wine as God wills. Sooner than have mere wine with the fanatics, I would agree with the pope that there is only blood.” (Martin Luther, Confession Concerning Christ’s Supper, 1528)

"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him, the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement." - St. Augustine of Hippo

"Should we fall into a sin, let us humble ourselves sorrowfully in his presence, and then, with an act of unbounded confidence, let us throw ourselves into the ocean of his goodness, where every failing will be cancelled and anxiety turned into love." - St. Paul of the Cross

"Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead". - St. John Chrysostom

God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6).

If we humble ourselves, choosing to walk in honesty and brokenness, we will experience God’s abundant grace to cleanse us, fill us with new strength and bring about a supernatural transformation in our inner life. - K.P. Yohannan

"They who once know the sweetness of each Lord’s day celebrating his supper, will not be content, I am sure, to put it off to less frequent seasons. Beloved, when the Holy Ghost is with us, ordinances are wells to the Christian, wells of rich comfort and of near communion.” - C.H. Spurgeon

"The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.” - Elizabeth Elliot

"Be violent against yourself and allow no pride to live in you, but be so humble and small that everyone will be able to walk over you and press you down like the dust in the streets. You prideful person,what do you have to complain about?" - Thomas A Kempis

"Can anyone who spends several years in those seats of learning, be excused if they do not add to that learning the reading of the Fathers? The Fathers are the most authentic commentators on Scripture, for they were nearest the fountain and were eminently endued with that Spirit by whom all Scripture was given. It will be easily perceived, I speak chiefly of those who wrote before the council of Nicaea." - John Wesley

"Do we Protestants realize what we have been doing? In selection of our Old Testament canon and text [the Hebrew Masoretic Text which is devoid of the Apocrypha], we have been siding with the unbelieving scribes and Pharisees---the 'brood of vipers'---against our faithful Christian brothers and sisters of the first and second centuries [who used the Greek Septuagint which contains the Apocrypha]. What bitter irony! Maybe it is we who are the blind guides!"

- David Bercot (Early Church Historian)

"The establishing of the church is the maturing of missions work.” ””Daniel Punnose

"Let us look steadfastly to the Blood of Christ, and see how precious His Blood is in the sight of God: Which being shed for our salvation, has obtained the grace of repentance for all the world. Let us search into all the ages that have gone before us; and let us learn that our Lord has in every one of them still given place for repentance to all such as would turn to Him." - The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

"For Christ is with them that are lowly of mind, not with them that exalt themselves over the flock. The scepter of the majesty of God, even our Lord Jesus Christ, came not in the pomp of arrogance or of pride, though He might have done so, but in lowliness of mind, according as the Holy Spirit spake concerning Him... Ye see, dearly beloved, what is the pattern that hath been given unto us; for, if the Lord was thus lowly of mind, what should we do, who through Him have been brought under the yoke of His grace?" [I Clement 16 (Clement was Bishop of Rome from 88-99AD)]

"Do good to the one who wrongs you, and God will be your friend. Never slander your enemy. Practice love, restraint and moderation, patience, self-control, and the like. For this is the knowledge of God: to follow Him through humility and other such virtues. These are the actions not of every man, but of one whose soul possesses spiritual understanding.” - Anthony the Great, AD 251-356

"We cannot say too much about Him, and we will never in this life be able to comprehend Him in all of His wonder and in all of His glory.” ”“ J. Vernon McGee

"If God leads you to walk a way that you know, it will not benefit you as much as if He would lead you to take the way that you do not know. This forces you to have hundreds and thousands of conversations with Him, resulting in a journey that is an everlasting memorial between you and Him. Your Leader will lead you to walk an untrodden way, to go down a path you never dreamed of. He is afraid of nothing, and He wishes you to be afraid of nothing also. He is with you. In desperate situations it is His joy to see His children grasping His hands." - Watchman Nee

"Learn the Divine skill of making God all things to thee. He can supply thee with all; or, better still, He can be to thee instead of all. Let me urge thee, then, to make use of thy God. Make use of Him in prayer; go to Him often, because He is thy God. Oh, wilt thou fail to use so great a privilege? Fly to Him; tell Him all thy wants. Use Him constantly by faith at all times. If some dark providence has beclouded thee, use thy God as a "sun"; if some strong enemy has beset thee, find in Jehovah a "shield"; for He is a sun and a shield to His people. If thou hast lost thy way in the mazes of life, use Him as a "guide"; for He will direct thee. Whatever thou art, and wherever thou art, remember God is just what thou wantest, and just where thou wantest and that He can do all thou wantest!" - C.H. Spurgeon

"In Thy strong hand I lay me down,
So shall the work be done
For who can work so wondrously
As the almighty One."
-Hudson Taylor

"If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness... we would be pursuing not piety but profit." - St. Clement of Alexandria

"If church history tells us anything, it is that the early Christians celebrated the broken body and shed blood of Christ on the cross for the complete remission of their sins." - Hank Hanegraaff

"It was for this reason, too, that the Lord descended into the regions beneath the earth, preaching His advent there also, and [declaring] the remission of sins received by those who believe in Him." - Irenaeus of Lyons AD 200

"Praise to Thee and adoration,
Blessèd Jesus, Son of God,
Who, to serve Thine own creation,
Didst partake of flesh and blood.
Teach me that I never may
From Thy fold or pastures stray,
But with zeal and joy exceeding
Follow where Thy steps are leading."
--Thomas Kingo

"It is not only death that makes martyrs, but the whole dispensation of life.” - St. John Chrysostom

"Nothing so provokes God's anger as the division of the Church. Yea, though we have achieved ten thousand glorious acts, yet shall we, if we cut to pieces the fullness of the Church, suffer punishment no less sore than they who mangled His body.” - St. John Chrysostom

"If we really desire to be like Jesus... we must humble ourselves.” - K.P. Yohannan

"Be a Christian in heart”” that is, be always sincere in prayer, in your intercourse with your neighbor, ever believing, trusting, meek, gentle, wishing well to everybody, just, not covetous, compassionate, merciful, abstinent, chaste, patient, obedient, courageous.” - St. John Kronstadt

"The Psalms are a sort of gymnasium for the use of all souls, a sort of stadium virtue, where different sorts of exercise are set out before him, from which he can choose the best suited to train him to win his crown." - St Ambrose

"We gather to give worship. Satan’s goal is to distort and dilute real worship by making it something we do for our feelings or our benefit, forgetting the One we came to worship. False worship is as good as no worship." - K.P. Yohannan

"We don't have a soul... We are a soul. We have a body." - C.S Lewis

"Dear Lord and Savior, we come to your table in faith, for you have told us, "As often as you do this, do it in memory of Me." Help us to celebrate this remembrance of death and resurrection in the very best way we know how. Do then, we pray Thee, overshadow us with Thy very breathing Presence. Breathe on us, O Breath of God; quicken and heal and purify and cleanse. Strengthen and perfect that which is wanting in us. Bless the strangers and the friends who happen to be within our gates today. Dear Lord, make them sense that they have found a home among us as we worship, and to realize that they are just as much "owners" here as we are; for it is the Lord's house and the Lord's table””it is not ours. We are all guests and children in the household””all of us! And we pray that we may love Thee acceptably, for we would not wound Thee again! Thou didst love us with such poured-out love that not even the blood in Thy veins was dear enough to Thee””we were dearer than that blood! All of this we ask in Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen." - A. W. Tozer

"The path to revival is evangelism. When you stop sharing your faith, your faith stops shaping you." - John Avant

"There was too much self-hood in Jacob; as in us. This must be broken down, put to death; the I-life crucified, before the Christ-life can take its place; the sinews of the old nature shriveled, so the new nature, with strength only to cling, be manifested in power" - F.B. Meyer

"There may lie much self-love under the pretence of doing service; and so secretly that, without a diligent and faithful search into your heart, you shall not perceive it yourself" - Jeremiah Burroughs

"The more I make life about me, the more we lose what life is actually about." - +Todd Atkinson

"Let us remember that we are on earth for only a short time. We are strangers and aliens to this world. We only have a visa for this life, but our passport is from another country." - K.P. Yohannan

Stand fast, therefore, in [the teachings concerning righteousness], and follow the example of the Lord, firm and immovable in faith, loving the family of believers, cherishing one another, united in the truth, giving way to one another in the gentleness of the Lord, despising no one. When you are able to do good, do not put it off, because charity delivers one from death." - St. Polycarp of Smyrnaea, AD 125

"Let us make of our hearts a little garden of delights where Jesus may come to rest." - St. Therese

"The Lord's Table is the very heart of everything in Christianity, and we must realise that. It is the heart of all the teaching, of the meeting together of God's people, and indeed, the heart of the very life of the people of God, but it has become just something that we do from time to time, and we have very largely lost the meaning of it." - T. Austin Sparks

"Jesus is ecstasy beyond compare and if new hardships draw us closer to Him, I'm more than content with it.” - Joni Eareckson Tada

"Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks[Eucharist] to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith. Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in heaven and earth, is brought to an end.” - St. Ignatius of Antioch, AD 107, Epistle to the Ephesians

"How mistaken are those people who seek happiness outside of themselves, in foreign lands and journeys, in riches and glory, in great possessions and pleasures, in diversions and vain things, which have a bitter end! In the same thing to construct the tower of happiness outside of ourselves as it is to build a house in a place that is consistently shaken by earthquakes. Happiness is found within ourselves, and blessed is the man who has understood this. Happiness is a pure heart, for such a heart becomes the throne of God. Thus says Christ of those who have pure hearts: "I will visit them, and will walk in them, and I will be a God to them, and they will be my people.” (II Cor. 6:16) What can be lacking to them? Nothing, nothing at all! For they have the greatest good in their hearts: God Himself! " - St. Nectarios of Aegina

”ª"Prayer is the mark of a lover. Those who deeply love Jesus can't help but pray often. To love God with our entire being is the greatest command in scripture. Pastors who are not drawn to prayer should not be pastors." - ”ªFrancis Chan”¬

"Nothing will kill your spiritual life more then self-focus. Self-obsession. That is why the first call of discipleship is deny yourself." - +Todd Atkinson

"Jesus did not invite me to a life of self-focus, he invited me to a life of self-denial." - +Todd Atkinson

"Compassion comes from realizing that we are all equal in the sight of God, that Jesus died for all people. It comes from realizing that we are all created in the image of our Creator. Apathy comes when we lose sight of God's love for the world." - K.P. Yohannan

"Paul assigned to all of us the task of judging sinners inside the church. We bring the sin to the bishop, so that such a person might be lawfully expelled from the church. ‘Drive out the wicked person from among you.’ On the one hand, this means drive out the wicked person from their midst. But make sure that in your willingness to drive out the wicked person, you recognize that you have a wicked person within yourself. Therefore, spare no effort to drive out the wicked person from yourself. For when he departs, Christ Jesus will dwell within you.” - Origen of Alexandria, AD 225-248

Forgive me, most gracious God, if this day I have done or said anything to increase the pain of the world. Pardon the unkind word, the impatient gesture, the hard and selfish deed, the failure to show sympathy and kindly help where I had the opportunity but missed it; and enable me so to live that I may daily do something to lessen the tide of human sorrow, and add to the sum of human happiness. I ask this through Christ, our Lord. - F.B. Meyer

For every one who shall not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is antichrist: and whosoever shall not confess the testimony of the Cross, is of the devil; and whosoever shall pervert the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts and say that there is neither resurrection nor judgment, that man is the firstborn of Satan.
- St. Polycarp

"Oh, God, make us hungry for Jesus Christ! Take away every other desire from us””every other pursuit. And make our hearts to be so hungry to know Jesus Christ." - Hans R. Waldvogel

"We must drink, drink and drink again if we are to receive the fullness of the river of His grace." - A.B. Simpson

O Holy Spirit, Love of God infuse Thy grace, and descend plentifully into my heart; enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling, and scatter there Thy cheerful beams; dwell in that soul that longs to be Thy temple; water that barren soil, overrun with weeds and briars, and lost for want of cultivating, and make it fruitful with Thy dew from heaven. Oh come, Thou refreshment of them that languish and faint. Come, Thou Star and Guide of them that sail in the tempestuous sea of the world; Thou only Haven of the tossed and shipwrecked. Come, Thou Glory and Crown of the living, and only Safeguard of the dying. Come, Holy Spirit, in much mercy, and make me fit to receive Thee””Amen.
St. Augustine (354”“430)

"Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.” ”“ C.S. Lewis

"No one magnifies Christ as the Holy Spirit does." - R.A. Torrey

"Obedience to God must never be delayed." - Zac Poonen

"Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men's sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ." - Watchman Nee

"When you have nothing and no-one left standing with you but God your heavenly Father, you will discover (as Jesus did) that He alone is more than enough.Such experiences are precious, for they will mature you. That is why God permits them. So rejoice when you find yourself there!" - Zac Poonen

"I know I am speaking to people who have churches and who have a lot to do in churches. Remember this: You never lose so much as when you lose your peace. If the people see that you have lost your groundwork of peace, they know you have got outside of the position of victory. You have to possess your soul in peace.
Strange things will happen in the church, things will look as though they were all contrary, and you will feel that the enemy is busy At that time possess your soul in peace. Let the people know that you have acquaintance with One Who, when He was reviled, reviled not again.

Let your patience be so possessed that you can suffer anything for the church or for your friends or for your neighbors, or anyone. Remember this: We build character in others as our character is built."

- Smith Wigglesworth

"Christians are destined to bear a heavy cross in their life. It’s a difficult thing to say you believe in the Lord and also that you have ease of life in this life. Because, when you are having ease of life on earth, there is something wrong with yourself; you care about the gold of the land and not for the treasures of heaven. But when you think like this, you are far away from the will of God. Christian life and having ease in life do not go together; they are different things". - Saint Paisios the Athonite

"There is a place where strength can always be renewed; that place is the presence of the Lord." - R.A. Torrey

"If the poison of pride is swelling up in you, turn to the Eucharist; and that Bread, Which is your God humbling and disguising Himself, will teach you humility. If the fever of selfish greed rages in you, feed on this Bread; and you will learn generosity. If the cold wind of coveting withers you, hasten to the Bread of Angels; and charity will come to blossom in your heart. If you feel the itch of intemperance, nourish yourself with the Flesh and Blood of Christ, Who practiced heroic self-control during His earthly life; and you will become temperate. If you are lazy and sluggish about spiritual things, strengthen yourself with this heavenly Food; and you will grow fervent. Lastly, if you feel scorched by the fever of impurity, go to the banquet of the Angels; and the spotless Flesh of Christ will make you pure and chaste.” - St. Cyril of Alexandria

"We urgently need God to breathe upon us the spirit of true priesthood, and to touch and transform every aspect of our lives, our walk, and our ministry. There is a requirement to minister unto God before one ministers to men.” - Art Katz

"Priesthood is not a role to be performed behind the pulpit, and then discarded upon returning home…the mind continually needs to be brought unto the knowledge of ‘Holiness to the LORD.’ There would be much less brash and sourish ministry.” - Art Katz

"He who hates bad men hates all men." Yet, bad men are to be loved, so that they may not continue to be bad, just as sick men are to be loved so that they may not remain sick, but may be cured." - St Augustine

"I spent 14 years in communist prisons. We were there together ”“ Catholics, Orthodox, Lutherans, Baptists, Pentecostals and so on. We suffered the same beatings and the same hunger, and each of us would have been equally glad if someone from outside had given us a piece of bread or a smuggled Bible. At that time nobody did these things." --Rev. Richard Wurmbrand

"The spirit of submission is choosing His way over ours for His sake." - K.P. Yohannan

"Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.” - Corrie ten Boom

"Let God's promises shine on your problems”. - Corrie ten Boom

"Nothing is ever wasted on the Lord." - Watchman Nee

"Am I creating the impression that I am better than I really am? In other words, am I a hypocrite?" - The first question of self-examination asked in the weekly Methodist classes (small accountability groups) started by John Wesley.

"God is not looking for brilliant men, is not depending upon eloquent men, is not shut up to the use of talented men in sending His Gospel out in the world. God is looking for the broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the Cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God." - H.A. Ironside

"Now, O my God, My comfort, portion, rest !
Thou, none but Thou, shalt reign within my breast.
Call me to Thee! call me Thyself”” oh, speak.
And bind my heart to Thee, whom most I seek!"

- Gerhard Tersteegen

"How can you expect to dwell with God forever if you so neglect and forsake Him here." - Jonathan Edwards

"Stop idle talk; close your mouths to criticism; place doors and locks against unnecessary words." - Elder Ephraim of Philotheou

"Whatever 'call' a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry." - C.H. Spurgeon

"God, the Spouse of my soul, God who makes my soul fruitful for eternal life- Him alone will I love and nothing other than Him." - St. Augustine

"When you have nothing and no-one left standing with you but God your heavenly Father, you will discover (as Jesus did) that He alone is more than enough.Such experiences are precious, for they will mature you. That is why God permits them. So rejoice when you find yourself there!" - Zac Poonen

"From David to Noah, we see that the only qualification to be used by God is absolute dependence on Him. These men were simple, yielded vessels looking to God alone, never relying upon mere human strength, experience or skill." - Dr. KP Yohannan, Metropolitan

"No man should stand before an audience who has not first stood before God. Many hours of communion should precede one hour in the pulpit. The prayer chamber should be more familiar than the public platform. Prayer should be continuous, preaching but intermittent." - A.W. Tozer

"[God] says, I will entrust the person who is faithful in the smaller things to be faithful with the bigger things. And I meet too many people who will go to the ends of the earth, but won’t share the gospel with their next door neighbor,” - Francis Chan

"...it is the duty of every Christian to receive the Lord's Supper as often as he can." - John Wesley

"The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.” - Warren Wiersbe

"Keep silent, refrain from judgement. This will raise you above the deadly arrows of slander, insult and outrage and will shield your glowing hearts against all evil." - St. Seraphim of Sarov