Great Quotes 5

"Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth."-Alistair Begg

John Wesley one day walked to his mother and asked: "Mum, define sin for me". Her aswer was this:"Whatever weakens your reasoning, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes away your relish for spiritual things, in short, if anything increases the authority of the flesh over the spirit, that to you becomes sin, however good it is in itself."

Hi sermonindex...!I just finished searching through the older Great Quotes threads, and I was surprised at how blessed I was! There is some wonderfully convicting statements located in those threads! Thanks again for sharing! :-)

"Sometimes the greatest thing a Christian can do is take a nap."Warren Wiersbe

"It is not difficult to say what it is that hardens the hearts. The seed sown by the wayside could not enter the soil because it had been trodden down by the passersby. When the world, with its business and its intrests, has at all times a free passage, the heart loses its tenderness."-Andrew MurrayFrom the book "The Holiest of All"

Nothing so effectually hinders hearing God's voice as opening the heart too much to other voices. A heart too deeply interested in the news, the literature, and the society of this world cannot hear the devine voice. It needs stillness, retirement, and concentration to give God the heed He claims.-Andrew MurrayFrom the book "The Holiest of All"

"When alone with God, be alone with Him"-Samuel Chadwick"There are blessing of The Kingdom that are only yielded to the violence of the vehement soul"-Samuel Chadwick(from "The Path Of Prayer" Chapter 9 "The Importunity of Prayer", paragraph "The Cost of Prayer" page 74)

He (Constantine) changed his name to Silvanus, the companion of the Apostle Paul, and by attaching himself to the believers who rejected the image worship and other superstitions of the Byzantine Church, drew upon himself the anger of those in authority.[...]Constantine Silvanus' journeys brought him along the Euphrates valley, across the Taurus Mountains, and into western parts of Asia Minor, where his successful activities attracted the attention of the Byzantine Emperor, Constantine Pogonatus.This Emperor issued a decree (684) against the congregations of believers and agaunst Constantine in particulair...the Emperor sent one of his officiers, Simeon to put the decree into effect.[...]In order to give special significance to the execution of Constantine, Simeon supplied a number of personal friends with stones and ordered them to stone the teacher whom they had so long revered and loved. Risking their own lives by their refusal, they dropped the stones, but there was a young man present named Justus, who had been brought up by Constantine as his adopted son and treated with especial kindness; he flung a stone at his benefactor and killed him.[...]Returning (Simeon) to Constantinople, he could find no peace of soul at the court, and after three years of inward conflict, abandoned everything, escaped to Kibossa, and there adopting the name of Titus, took up and continued the work of the man whom he had caused to be put to death.[...]Justus, making use of his knowledge of the ways of the brethren, gave to the bishop-and to the Emperor Justinian II- information which led to the capture of a large number of them.Expecting to terrorize the rest of the “heretics” into submission, the Emperor had these, including Simeon, all burnt together at one time...The Pilgrim Church – E.H. BroadbentMy apologies for this rather large 'quote'. But I just had to post this.This all happened in the time that the main 'world-church' was merged with the state, indulging into worldliness, persecuting the real churches and men who refused to deny their Saviour by giving in to wicked state-religion and their ways.It's so cool to read that this man, Simeon turned to the Lord himself!It's so sad to hear that Justus traded in his faith for the world.

"Remember kids, God made you special, and He loves you very much"-Veggie Tales

"If you're going to make a difference, number one you're going to scare people. Number two you're going to draw a crowd."-David Yarbrough

"It is better to debate a question before settling it than to settle a question before debating it." -UnknownRavi Zacharias on the hard work in finding hard-nosed answers for belief.

"O Sovereign LORD, remember me." Sampson

Sin is doing something that does not glorify God.

You can kill us, but you can't hurt us. -Justin MartyrThe dungeon became to me as it were a palace.-Perpetua (about 202) What is the chief end of man? To glorify God and enjoy him forever.-Westminster Shorter Catechism (London, 1647)

"The prayer life in which there are no miracles may be the greatest miracle of all"-Samuel Chadwick(From "The Path of Prayer" chapter 12 "Praying And The Commonplace" page 100)

Are you taking every step neccesary to stop feeding your lust? - unknown (heard in compilation: Adam Fell - So Great Salvation)

"Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security." -- John Bunyan, from The Pilgrim's Progress, pt II :-)

"Tell the Israelites, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go with you even for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments and I will decide what to do with you.'" - Jehovah

"Are there not classes of passages of the most spiritual and important character, upon which we cannot preach, dare not preach, and should be regarded as hypocritical if we did preach, until we reform our lives and habits? Are not our own lusts, and lives, and habits, virtually leading us to temporize on the subject of self-denial, bearing the cross, contempt of the world, and many of the most important subjects, upon which the Church of God need to be instructed?...Is not this the case so much that we cannot preach against conformity to the world, without being turned upon by our hearers and churches, with the just retort, "Physician, heal thyself!" Charles Finney

"are not the Church in their present state, a standing, public, perpetual denial of the gospel? Do they not stand out before the world, as a living, unanswerable contradiction of the gospel; and do more to harden sinners and lead them into a spirit of caviling and infidelity, than all the efforts of professed infidels from the beginning of the world to the present day?"

"All it takes to make a preacher is a sermon - but it takes an altar to make a man of God"B.H. Clendennen

"Christ help us that we may come at last to live according to the Gospel which now sounds in our ears and which many have on their lips, for I see that multitudes misuse the Gospel to give liberty to the flesh" Johan von Staupitz (around 1530)

"Christians, give ear! There is only one Life, but death comes to us in a thousand forms. There is only one Truth, but error has a thousand forms, There is only one Christ, but a thousand antichrists..." Jan Amos Comenius

"The great number of teachers is the reason of the multitude of sects, for which we shall soon have no names left." Jan Amos Comenius (around 1660)

"The one thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history" Leonard Ravenhill

“Give a man wealth; let his ships bring home continually rich freights; let the winds and waves appear to be his servants to bear his vessels across the bosom of the mighty deep; let his lands yield abundantly; let the weather be propitious to his crops, and the skies smile pleasantly upon his enterprise;let uninterrupted success attend him; let him stand among men as a successful merchant,allow him with braced nerve and brilliant eye, to march through the world, and live happily; give him the buoyant spirit; let him have the song perpetually on his lips, and his eye be ever sparkling with joy:—the happy, happy man who laughs at care, and cries, "Begone, dull care, I prithee begone from me." I say the consequence of such a state to a man, let him be the best Christian who ever breathed, will be presumption; and he will say, "I stand" we should dream "we stand;" and stand we should, but it would be upon a pinnacle; stand we might, but hike the man asleep upon the mast, each moment we should be in jeopardy. We bless God, then, for our afflictions; we thank him for our depressions of spirit; we extol his name for the losses of our property; for we feel that had it not so happened to us, had he not chastened us every morning, and vexed us every evening, we might have become too secure. Continued worldly prosperity is a fiery trial!” Charles Spurgeon

"Does God answer prayers? No! God answers desperate prayers!"-Leonard Ravenhill

Stop trying to justify what you need to crucify.Hope

"Denying ourselves and taking up our cross isn't a little side issue--it is absolutely necessary to becoming or continuing to become a disciple of Jesus." John Wesley"Death to self is the only entrance into the Church of the living God; and nothing but God can give this death, and that alone through the inward work of the cross of Christ by His Spirit made real in the soul." William Law

We may search in vain the corridors of our own hearts and the drafty corners of our souls. We will not find a spark upon our hearth, unless it is some strange fire of natural desires, which will not do. No, the fire that thaws the iciness of the heart must come from heaven-a gift from God, who is a 'consuming fire.' -William Gurnall

"Think twice before you use your intelligence to invent new sins! You may provoke God to new punishments. Sodom devised a new way to sin, so God devised a new way to discipline them: He sent hell from above upon them." -William Gurnall

"The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ. What he is or is not no longer concerns him. He believes that he has been crucified with Christ and he is not willing either to praise or deprecate such a man." A.W. Tozer

I think this should be a terror to an unconverted soul, to think he is a burden to the creation. "Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground" (Luke 13:7). If inanimate creatures could but speak, your food would say, "Lord, must i nourish such a wretch as this, and yield forth my strength for him, to dishonor Thee? No, i will choke him rather, if Thou wilt give commission." The very air would say, "Lord, must i give this man breath, to set his tongue against heaven, and scorn Thy people, and vent his pride and wrath, and filthy talk, and belch out oaths and blasphemy against Thee? No, if Thou wilt but say the word, he shall be breathless for me." His poor beast would say, "Lord, must i carry him upon his wicked designs? No, i will break his bones, i will end his days rather, if i may have but leave from Thee." A wicked man; the earth groans under him, and hell groans for him, till death satisfies both. While the Lord of Hosts is against you, be sure the host of the Lord is against you. -Joseph Alleine

All are living to die, many are dying to live, but few are dead while they live. - Jesse Morrell

"real gold isn't afraid of fire..."-unknown

"The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge." Jeremy Taylor

"The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness." - A. W. Pink

This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!" - Keith Green

Everything the sinner has-time, strength, intellect, and all-is spent to keep the devil on his throne. -William Gurnall

When you see men of power and intellect using their talents against God, weep for their souls. Better they had lived and died slaves and fools, than to do the the devil's buisness with their God given abilities.-William Gurnall

"You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was." - Vance Havner

"The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it."- C. H. Spurgeon

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world. - A.W.Tozer

Men study to profit in this world, but won't study under prophets who tell them to flee the world.-G.A. Jarquin

"Cares of the world are imposed and afflict those who are saints. The world attempts to toss it's cares upon you so that you care for it, but it is not like our relationship with God, who really cares for us; instead the world, when caroused and cared for, will respond with cold murderous hands in a attempt to choke the life of God out of you."-G.A. Jarquin

"i've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels, what do you think i'm gonna do? sit down and cry?"-Leonard Ravenhill in his sermon on Romans 8(this quote is based on verse 31)

While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It was perfectly dry in spite of the fact that it had been immersed in water for centuries. The same is true of many people in the Western world. For centuries they have been surrounded by Christianity; they live immersed in the waters of its benefits. And yet it has not penetrated their hearts; they do not love it. The fault is not in Christianity, but in men's hearts, which have been hardened by materialism and intellectualism. ... Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929)http://www.cqod.com/cqodlist.htm

"Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by this heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils." -William Gurnall [font=Georgia]![/font]

The secret of backsliding is, that reformations are not carried deep enough. Christians are not set with all their hearts to aim at a speedy deliverance from all sin, but on the contrary are left, and in many instances taught, to indulge the expectation that they shall sin as long as they live. -Charles G. Finney

"Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us."- P.T. Forsyth

Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian turn away from it.- J. Wilbur Chapman

A servant of Godhas but one Master.- George Muller

To the hustlers, killers, murderers, drug dealers even the strippers, Jesus walks with themKanye West

The ultimate purpose of the universe is to display the greatness of the glory of the grace of God for undeserving sinners. John Piper

God is most satisfied in us, when we are most satisfied in Him.John Piper

The ultimate reason that suffering exist in the universe is so that Christ could display the glory of the grace of God by suffering Himself so that He might overcome suffering in us.John Piper

"The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness." - A. W. Pink

"As long as we are content to live without revival, we will." - Leonard Ravenhill

"To what towering heights has sin grown when a man draws his encouragement to sin from the everlasting love of God!" -William Gurnall

"Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life."- Charles Spurgeon

"A boy in the streets, selling mince-pies, kept crying, “Hot mince-pies!” A person bought one of them, and found it quite cold. “Boy,” said he, “why do you call these pies hot?” “That’s the name they go by, sir,” said the boy. So there are plenty of people who are called Christians, but they are not Christians—that’s the name they go by; but all the substance is drained out of them by other matters."- Charles Spurgeon

Wo...this one struck me...."Oh dear, I couldn't say that my church is alive and I wouldn't want to call it dead. I guess it's just walking in its sleep!"- Church member

"The Christian life is 10 percent knowledge and 90 percent experience. What is real is what the Lord has worked into you, not what you have learned." Dene McGriffWe have lots of head knowledge these days....

"Grant, O Lord my God, that I may never fall away in success or in failure; that I may not be prideful in prosperity nor dejected in adversity. Let me rejoice only in what unites us and sorrow only in what separates us. May I strive to please no one or fear to displease anyone except Yourself. May I seek always the things that are eternal and never those that are only temporal. May I shun any joy that is without You and never seek any that is beside You. O Lord, may I delight in any work I do for You and tire of any rest that is apart from You. My God, let me direct my heart towards You, and in my failings, always repent with a purpose of amendment." ~St. Thomas Aquinas

Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be better men and women. Do not pray for tasks equal to your strength, pray for strength equal to your tasks. ~Phillips Brooks (composer of "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem)

Faith is a decision. It is not a deduction from the facts around us. We would not look at the world of today and logically conclude that God loves us. It doesn’t always look as though He does. Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling—feeling don’t help much when you’re in the lions’ den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy things always work. It is an act of the will, a choice based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ. ~Elisabeth Elliot, “Secure in the Everlasting Arms”, p 94The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns. ~Elisabeth Elliot, “The Path of Loneliness”, p137Turn your loneliness into solitude, and your solitude into prayer. ~Elisabeth Elliot, “ The Path of Loneliness”, p153After the Crucifixion came the Resurrection. After the Resurrection the Ascension. Because Jesus wore a crown of thorns, He now wears a crown of glory. Because He came poor, He now sits enthroned. Because He made Himself of no reputation, He now has a name which is above every name. Because He was willing to become a slave, He is now Master of everything. Because He was obedient to death, He is Lord of Life and holds the keys of hell and death. Because He made Himself of no reputation, every knee will someday bow before Him. Every renunciation led to glory. ~Elisabeth Elliot, “The Path of Loneliness”, p125With what misgivings we turn over our lives to God, imagining somehow that we are about to lose everything that matters. Our hesitancy is like that of a tiny shell on the seashore, afraid to give up the teaspoon of water it holds lest there not be enough in the ocean to fill it again. Lose your life, said Jesus, and you will find it. Give up, and I will give you all. Can the shell imagine the depth and plenitude of the ocean? Can you and I fathom the riches, the fullness, of God’s Love? ~Elisabeth Elliot, The Path of Loneliness, p 32Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt ever situation you believe to be will of God. ~Jim Elliot, JournalsJuly 14, 1948 Ruth – Naomi had to become empty before God could restore life (1:21, 4:15). The weakness of two widows at the mercy of God He uses to give ancestry to great David and David’s “Lord.” Naomi’s tendency was to become embittered at her loss, not knowing this was God’s way to make His and her name remembered (4:11) in Israel. How like Orpah I am—prone to kiss, to display full devotion and turn away; how unlike Ruth, cleaving and refusing to part except at death (1:14-17). Eternal Lover, make Thou Thyself inseparable from my unstable soul. Be Thou the object bright and fair to fill and satisfy the heart. My hope to meet Thee in the air, and never more from Thee to part! ~Jim Elliot, JournalsJuly 7, 1948 – Psalms 104:4; “He makes his ministers a flame of fire.” Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of “other things.” Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be a flame. ~Jim Elliot, JournalsLord, give me firmness without hardness; steadfastness without dogmatism; love without weakness.~Jim Elliot, Journals, Nov 24, 1949 August 14, 1948 – Take me, O God, and may my life be yielded that it might be wielded. Yea, I would know wielding the sword myself so that my hand would cleave thereto—wholly helpless without the Word—weary in its use but unrelenting in my clutch of it (2 Samuel 23:2-6) ~ Jim Elliot, JournalsI have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion—these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long . . . “ ~Jim Elliot, Journals, Oct 27, 1949October 27, 1948 – Sufficiency in myself is a persistent thought, though I try to judge it. Lord Jesus, Tender Lover of this brute soul, wilt Thou make me weak? I long to understand Thy sufficiency and my inadequacy, and how can I sense this except in experience? So, Lord, Thou knowest what I am able to bear. Send trouble that I might know peace; send anxiety that I might know rest in Thee. Send hard things that I may learn to rely on Thy dissolving them. Strange askings, and I do not know what I speak, but “my desire is toward Thee”—anything that will intensify and make me tender, Savior. O desire to be like Thee, Thou knowest. ~Jim Elliot, Journals

Conversion is not a blind leap into darkness. It is a joyous leap into the light that is the love of God. ~Corrie ten Boom, “Each New Day”When the Lord takes your sins, you never see them again. He casts them into the depths of the sea, forgiven and forgotten. I even believe that He places a sign over them that reads, “No fishing allowed”. ~Corrie ten Boom, “New Each Day”The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray—especially when we pray together. ~Corrie ten Boom, “He Cares For You”When the worst happens in the life of a child of God the best remains, and the very best is yet to be. ~Corrie ten BoomGod has no problems, only plans. ~Corrie ten BoomDiscernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding. ~Corrie ten Boom Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. ~Corrie ten Boom Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. ~Corrie ten Boom It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts. ~Corrie ten Boom Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. ~Corrie ten BoomIf God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes. ~Corrie ten Boom Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. ~Corrie ten BoomForgiveness is the key which unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. The forgiveness of Jesus not only takes away our sins, it makes them as if they had never been. ~Corrie ten Boom, “Tramp for the Lord” :-D

"Come, then, let us restore the lost chord of Christianity heroism to the world, and the crown of the world to Christ. Christ Himself asks the question, Will you be a Malingerer or a Militant?To your knees, man! And to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses." C.T. Studd

"Amongst all the stratagems whereby the great enemy of mankind plots and contrives their ruin, few are more unhappily successful than this fond persuasion he has filled them with: namely, that heaven and everlasting happiness are easily attainable." There Are But A Small Number SavedHenry Scougal

Whenever our Lord talked about the relation of a disciple to Himself it was in terms of mystical union: “I am the vine [not the root of the vine, but the vine itself], ye are the branches.” We have not paid enough attention to the illustrations Jesus uses. This is the picture of sanctification in the individual, a completeness of relationship between Jesus Christ and myself. Pharisaic holiness means that my eyes are set on my own whiteness and I become a separate individual. I have the notion that I have to be something; I have not, I have to be absolutely abandoned to Jesus Christ, so one with Him that I never think of myself apart from Him. Love is never self-conscious.-Chambers, Oswald. Biblical Ethics. Hants UK: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1996, c1947.

"God is reasonably angry with you, because you, who are at enmity through wicked works, are unreasonably angry with Him." -G.A. Jarquin

What should we think of a person, who, being admitted into the king's presence, upon business of the greatest importance, should break off in the midst of his address, to pursue a butterfly? Could such an instance of weakness be met with, it would be but a faint emblem of the inconsistencies which they who are acquainted with their own hearts, can often charge themselves with in prayer.- John Newton, taken from More than a Calvinisthttps://www.sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=2947

"No flesh shall glory in His presence, and the religious flesh is no more acceptable than the irreligious."T. Austin-Sparks

How much does the vine life do towards producing the fruit? Everything. How much does the branch do to help? Nothing. How much must the life of the Holy Spirit do in you? Everything. How much must you do to help? Nothing.Just as Christ in His death and resurrection did everything for your justification, and you did nothing, but simply accepted the benefits of a work finished nineteen centuries before you were born so Christ in you must do everything for your sanctification, and you must do nothing, but simply accept the benefits of a work which He will complete as surely as He has begun it."But," you ask," must I not do anything? " No, nothing. " Oh, but now you are going too far. You can't carry things to that length. Of course I must do something. Mustn't I read my Bible and pray; mustn't I witness for Christ; mustn't I surrender everything to Him; mustn't I do good works whenever I get the opportunity?" Do you know what you are like? You are like a branch saying, "It's no good you telling me that I mustn't do anything in order to produce fruit. That's going too far. Of course I must do something. Mustn't I produce fruit?" I should say to that branch, "Yes, of course you must produce fruit, but you'll never produce fruit by trying to. It is not the fruit you need to be concerned about, but the life. If once you have got that, the fruit will come all right." And so I reply to you, Yes, of course you must read your Bible and pray and witness and do good works; of course you must surrender completely to Christ, but don't you see, all these things are part of the fruit. You cannot do them by trying to do them; you can only imitate them; you can only be like a branch tying on artificial fruit, because it does not understand that real fruit must be the result of the vine life within. Leave the fruit for the moment. Apart from Him you can do NOTHING; and prayer and witness and surrender are all included in that "nothing." Every single bit of fruit has to be the result of the life of Christ in you. It is the Life you need to be concerned about; if you have got that, the fruit will surely follow.-David Tryon

"…The cross is not only a past place of objective substitution; it is also a present place of subjective execution---the execution of my self-reliance and my love affair with the praise of man."- John Piper

Let there be in you that lowly mind which was in Christ Jesus and be ye likewise clothed with humility. As one instance of this, be always ready to own any fault you have been in. If you have at any time thought, spoken or acted wrong, be not backward to acknowledge it. Never dream that this will hurt the cause of God; no it will further it. Be therefore open and frank when you are taxed with anything; do not seek either to evade or disguise it; but let it appear just as it is, and you will thereby not hinder but adorn the Gospel." -- John Wesley

Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix. Beware those who claim to know the mind of God and who are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform. Beware those who cannot tell God’s will from their own. Temple police are always a bad sign. When chaplains start wearing guns and hanging out at the sheriff’s office, watch out. Someone is about to have no king but Caesar.Barbara Brown Taylor, "A Deadly Mix"

A man had an illiterate pastor. When someone questioned him about it, theman said, "Well, I'd rather hear a preacher say, "I seen," who sawsomething, than to hear one say "I saw," who ain't saw nothin'."

"If we would shut our eyes more often to this world in prayer to gaze upon heaven; then they would not bulge out our sockets with the lust of the eyes as we scan over earth's treasures." -G.A. Jarquin

Sin is not natural for us.

Probably been posted, but worth reading again.“Prayer is preoccupation with our needs.Praise is preoccupation with our blessingsWorship is preoccupation with God himself.” He quoted a hymn writer that said… “My goal is God Himself, not joy, not peace, not even blessings, but it is Thee my God.” DS

Hi DS...“Prayer is preoccupation with our needs.Praise is preoccupation with our blessingsWorship is preoccupation with God himself.” He quoted a hymn writer that said… “My goal is God Himself, not joy, not peace, not even blessings, but it is Thee my God.” That is a great quote. Well, if it was already posted -- it definitely deserved to be posted again! Thanks! :-)

"We do not owe the flesh anything." - A sister in the Lord "Hate what we can do without God, Hate what we can be apart from God." - A brother in the Lord

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"Is any sin so luscious, that it is worth burning in hell forever?" C.H. Spurgeon

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"Too long have we been waiting for one another to begin! The time of waiting is past! The hour of God has struck! War is declared! In God's Holy Name let us arise and build! 'The God of Heaven, He will fight for us', as we for Him. We will not build on the sand, but on the bedrock of the sayings of Christ, and the gates and minions of hell shall not prevail against us. Should such men as we fear? Before the world, yes, before the sleepy, lukewarm, faithless, namby-pamby Christian world, we will dare to trust our God, we will venture our all for Him, we will live and we will die for Him, and we will do it with His joy unspeakable singing aloud in our hearts. We will a thousand times sooner die trusting only our God, than live trusting in man. And when we come to this position the battle is already won, and the end of the glorious campaign in sight. We will have the real Holiness of God, not the sickly stuff of talk and dainty words and pretty thoughts; we will have a Masculine Holiness, one of daring faith and works for Jesus Christ."

CT Studd

"The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-been's."

-Leonard Ravenhill

"'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world."

-General William Booth

When I received my first invitation to preach at a university and was asked what my honorarium would be, I answered, "It is honor enough to preach the Gospel. I can't see why an honorarium is needed. Where I come from, the honorarium for telling the story of Christ is twenty-five years in prison. If you witness for Him in jail, it is twenty-five sticks. I will speak without honorarium." The invitation was cancelled. I was considered a nut.
-Richard Wurmbrand

[b]“In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.”[/b] - William Booth (Written over 100 years ago)

“While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight, I'll fight to the very end!” - William Booth

“I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.” William Booth

“But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?” William Booth

"It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold." William Booth

“The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.” William Booth

"Look! Don’t be deceived by appearances- men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!" William Booth

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"It is time for the church to consecrate her mind and her whole heart to this subject(winning souls). It is indeed time that she should lay these great truths in all their burning power close to her heart. Alas, how is her soul palsied with the spirit of the world! Nothing can save her and restore her to spiritual life until she brings her mind and heart into burning contact with these living, energising truths of eternity. The church of our times needs the apostolic spirit. She needs so deep a baptism with those fires of the Holy Ghost that she can go out and set the world on fire by her zeal for the souls of men. Till then the generation of our race must go on, thronging the broad way to hell because no man cares for their souls."

-Charles G. Finney

“God give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye - and then let men or devils do their worst.”
-George Whitefield

The Savior is not looking for men and women who will give their spare evenings to Him - or their years of retirement. Rather, He seeks those who will give Him first place in their lives.\t\t\t\t
- William MacDonald

He looks today, as He has ever looked, not for crowds drifting aimlessly in His track, but for individual men and women whose undying allegiance will spring from their having recognized that He wants those who are prepared to follow the path of self-renunciation which He trod before them.
- H. A. Evan Hopkin

“Your life is like a coin, you can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it only once.”
-unknown

"Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the tension of the grasping hand. How often I have released a grasp only to retain what I prized by "harmless" longing... Rather, open my hand to receive the nail of Calvary, as Christ's was opened - that I, releasing all, might be released, unleashed from all that binds me now. He thought Heaven, yea, equality with God, not a thing to be clutched at. So let me release my grasp."
-Jim Elliot

'He makes His ministers a flame of fire.' Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be a flame. But flame is transient, often short-lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul, a short life? In me dwells the spirit of the great short-lived, whose zeal for God's house consumed him, and he has promised baptism with spirit and with fire. 'make me thy fuel flame of God.'"
-Jim Elliot

"God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life, that I may burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like You, Lord Jesus."
-Jim Elliot

“Divine movements have their birthplace in the heart of Diety. But whenever God predisposes the inauguaration of a period of blessing intended for the uplift of humanity, His church in particular, multitudes of His chosen ones throughout the earth, become mysteriously burdened with the birth-pangs of new era. Intercessions are stained with crimson of a splendid agony. Undoubtedly at such a time, God’s people pass throuhg their Gethsemane. Throughout the world there are now many thousands of devout Christians yearning passionately for a great spiritual awakening, convinced that only a mighty effusion of the Holy Spirit among the tormented nations can produse the turning point in the history of this distracted planet.”

-David Matthews(I Saw the Welsh Revival)

An empty Christian talks out of his head, but a Spirit-filled Christian talks out of his heart. The Holy Spirit does not live in our brains but in our heart. A head religion will talk anything, but a heart religion talks Jesus and the Holy Spirit." – John T. Hatfield

It is no little salvation that Jesus Christ came to work out for us. It is a 'great salvation,' and it saves. Hallelujah! It is not a pretense. It is not a 'make believe.' It is a real salvation from all sin and uncleanness; from all doubt and fear; from all guile and hypocrisy; from all malice and wrath. Bless God! - Samuel Brengle

The long arm of the law is an ever-present threat to those who are living sinfully, but, [b]when a man is dead[/b], the books are closed on any claim that the law might have against him. So it is with those that are dead to sin; the wrath of the law can no longer touch him. George E. (Jed) Smock (a long time street preacher I met 20+ years ago)

I should not like you, if meant by God to be a missionary to die a millionaire.I should not like it, were you fitted to be a missionary, that you should drivel down to be a king.
What are all your kings, all your nobles, all your diadems, when you put them together, compared with the dignity of winning souls to Christ, with the special honor of building for Christ, not on another man's foundation, but preaching Christ's Gospel in regions far beyond?
-C.H.Spurgeon (message to his son)

When we look at the history of the Church, at the reckless fashion in which we have squandered our strength and time in fratricidal struggles between sect and sect, in embittered bickerings over matters often of secondary moment, while the world about us lies unwon, and the Church's great commission remains plainly unfulfilled, surely we can understand that outburst of Erasmus, when he cried that he wished that we would cease from our disputings altogether, and put all that energy and zeal that we are wasting upon them into the carrying of the Gospel to the heathen! Or recall the infinite pains that have been taken, down the centuries, to preserve minute orthodoxy in all points of mental belief while ugly evils flaunt along the streets and are accepted meekly as part of the makeup of things! Or recollect how easy it is to assume that we, ourselves, are Christian people. Why? Oh, well, just the usual reasons: we say our prayers, when we are not too sleepy; and we come to church, when there is nothing much to do; and so, of course, there is no doubt of it, although our tempers may remain uncurbed, and our characters are not the least like Jesus Christ's, nor growing any nearer it! Do we not need that solemn warning that Christ gives us when He tells us bluntly that many people lose their lives and souls, because they are always laying the emphasis and stress on the wrong points?
... A. J. Gossip (1873-1954), The Galilean Accent [1926],
p. 236-7

How can a humble God walk with a proud people? That's why He wants to make you humble, He wants to walk with you! He wants to dwell in you! He wants you to be the house in which He would dwell and live and move and express Himself in the earth and in the heavens!
-George H.Warnock

"The Holy Spirit is grieved when ministers of the Gospel and other Christian workers more earnestly desire His gifts than Himself; when they are more eager to be clothed with His power than to be filled with His presence; when they prefer popularity to purity; when they rely more on polished rhetoric than on the power of the Holy Ghost; when they are more concerned about preparing the sermon than themselves; when they are more ambitious to please the church than the Head of the Church; when they subordinate the ministry of the Lord Jesus to themselves and not to the Lord Jesus; when they use the sacred office as a ladder to personal fame or gain instead of a stairway up which they may lead repentant sinners to the bosom of God." - Daniel Steele

"Deplorable as it is to fall into sin, yet God never intended that we should sink in paralyzing despair and perish. In case of wrong thought, word or deed, He would have His grieving child instantly confess all to Him, promise to be more faithful in the future, and believe that the blood of Christ cleanseth him from his most humiliating of sins, a sin committed after the reception of grace and light and Christ has become the Lord and Master of the heart and life. Thank God for the blood that cleanseth even there!" - B. Carradine

"Self-denial is the last thing the devil will allow you to practice after you become religious." - W.B. Dunkum

"Your spirituality is not seen by your ability to see the faults and flaws of others, but by lifting them to a higher plane of victory, usefulness, and Christian living. By all means be uncompromising, but don't be Pharisaical."

"Your spirituality is not seen by your ability to see the faults and flaws of others, but by lifting them to a higher plane of victory, usefulness, and Christian living. By all means be uncompromising, but don't be Pharisaical."

"A Crucified Lord must have a Crucified Bride."

"An open outbreaking sinner is easier reached than a religious formalist who has never experienced a change of heart."

"When you begin to argue, you are on slippery ground. I would advise you to argue with no one, not even the devil."

"A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing."

"If you will let God clean you up on the inside, you will not be long cleaning up the outside."

"Men would be glad to be Christians if they could be on their own terms."

"In the mathematics of Christianity there is a subtraction as well as there is an addition."

All from W.B. Dunkum

"“There was a day when I died, utterly died—died to George Mueller,his opinions, preferences, tastes, and will; died to the world, its approvalor censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren andfriends—and since then I have only to show myself approved to God.” - George Mueller

"Why does the Church stay indoors? They have a theology that has dwindled into a philosophy, in which there is no thrill of faith, no terror of doom, and no concern for souls. Unbelief has put out the fires of passion, and worldliness garlands the altar of sacrifice with the tawdry glitter of unreality."

-Samuel Chadwick

"The work of Christian holiness has been greatly damaged in many places by its teachers insisting upon a rigid, severe, butcher-type of religion, not knowing the difference between keeping the law of love and being in bondage to the old law of righteousness by works." John Hames

As it pertains to marriage:

"A happy wife is a happy wife."

Don McClure

"Saints are made in the furnace of affliction. Great times of trials provide a chance to prove and demonstrate the supernatural!" J.T. Crane

"If Christ be anything He must be everything."
- Charles H. Spurgeon

A young university girl said to a Christian worker in England, "I would
give the world if I had the Christian testimony you have." The dear sweet
old lady said, "My dear, that's exactly what it cost me, the world."
Christ demands all.

Justified means just as if I never sinned. - John Hagee

You can be religious and lost, there's a big difference between a cross around your neck and Christ in your heart one jewelry the other is Jesus. - John Hagee