This will be a blog of sorts. As I find revival quotes I will add them. May you read these and let God pierce your heart with His flaming Spirit and may you also yearn for Him to “Rend the Heavens and come down!”
“No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.” --- E. M. Bounds
“Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.” -----John Wesley
“Before the great revival in Gallneukirchen broke out, Martin Boos spent hours and days and often nights in lonely agonies of intercession. Afterwards, when he preached, his words were as flame, and the hearts of the people as grass.”
--------- D. M. McIntyre, D.D.
How many Christians there are who cannot pray, and who seek by effort, resolve, joining prayer circles, etc., to cultivate in themselves the ‘holy art of intercession,’ and all to no purpose. Here for them and for all is the only secret of a real prayer life ---- ‘Be filled with the Spirit,’ who is ‘the Spirit of grace and supplication.’” ----------Rev. J. Stuart Holden
“Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.” ----------E. M. Bounds
“O that we were more deeply moved by the languishing state
of Christ’s cause upon the earth today, by the inroads of the enemy and the
awful desolation he has wrought in
“Prayer was pre-eminently the business of his life.” ----------Biographer of Edwin Payson
“Whole days and WEEKS have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.” ----------George Whitfield
“All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives without much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it. -------Berridge
“It seemed to me as if he had gone straight into heaven, and lost himself in God; but often when he had done praying he was as white as the wall.” ----- A friend’s comment after meeting Tersteegen at Kroneberg.
“A religion of mere emotion and sensationalism is the most terrible of all curses that can come upon any people. The absence of reality is sad enough, but the aggravation of pretence is a deadly sin.” ---------- S. Chadwick
“It is well to get rid of the idea that faith is a matter of spiritual heroism only for a few select spirits. There are heroes of faith, but faith is not only for heroes. It is a matter of spiritual manhood. It is a matter of maturity.” -------P. T. Forsyth
“When God intends great mercy for His people, the first thing He does is set them a-praying.” ------------- Matthew Henry
“Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, and ethical system, and a superstition.”
------------- S. Chadwick
“The call of the Cross, therefore, is to enter into this passion of Christ. We must have upon us the print of the nails.” -------------Gordon Watt
“My need and They great fullness meet,
And I have all in Thee.” ------------Unknown
“I have seen faces upon which the Dove sat visibly brooding.”
----------Charles Lamb on the Quakers
“Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those who put their trust in Him? Oh, that God would give me more practical faith in Him? Where is now the Lord God of Elijah? He is waiting for Elijah to call on Him.”
----------James
Gilmore of
“Power on high is the supreme need of today.” -----------C. G. Finney
“If Christ waited to be anointed before He went to preach, no young man ought to preach until he, too, has been anointed by the Holy Ghost.”
-----------F. B. Meyer
“Beware of reasoning about God’s Word – obey it! -------- Oswald Chambers
“Tell me in the light of the Cross, isn’t it a scandal that you and I live today as we do?” -------------Alan Redpath
“As soon as we cease to bleed, we cease to bless. ---------Dr. J. H. Jowett
“Oh that believers would become eternity conscious! If we could live every moment of every day under the eye of God, if we did every act in the light of the judgment seat, if we sold every article in the light of the judgment seat. If we prayed every prayer in the light of the judgment seat, if we tithed all our possessions in the light of the judgment seat, if we preachers prepared every sermon with one eye on damned humanity and the other on the judgment seat – them we would have a Holy Ghost revival that would shake this earth and that, in no time at all, would liberate millions of precious souls.”
---------- Leonard Ravenhill
“The Gospel in not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.”
-----------Dr. R. Moffat Gautrey
“The greatest miracle of that day (Pentecost) was the transformation wrought in those waiting disciples. Their fire-baptism transformed them.
------------Samuel Chadwick
“The sign of Christianity is not a cross but a tongue of fire.”
------------Samuel Chadwick
“The Gospel is a fact; therefore tell is simply.
The Gospel is a joyful fact; therefore tell is cheerfully.
The Gospel is an entrusted fact; therefore tell it faithfully.
The Gospel is a fact of infinite moment; therefore tell it earnestly.
The Gospel is a fact of infinite love; therefore tell in feelingly.
The Gospel is a fact of difficult comprehension to many; therefore tell it with illustration.
The Gospel is a fact about a Person; therefore preach Christ.”
------------ Archibald Brown
True preaching is the seating of blood.
------------ Dr. Joseph Parker
The Church has halted somewhere between
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J.
How shall I feel at the judgment, if multitudes of missed opportunities pass before me in full review, and all my excuses prove to be disguises of my cowardice and pride? ------------- Dr. W. E. Sangster
O Living Stream! O Gracious Rain!
None wait for Thee, and wait in Vain. ------------ Tergsteengen
Revival – the inrush of the Spirit into the body that threatens to become a corpse. ----------- D. M. Panton
A revival of religion presupposes a declension. ----------- C. G. Finney
Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual
leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular
Christianity year after year till we reach the point where the grieved Holy
Spirit withdraws – like the Shekinah from the
No man is ever fully accepted until he has, first of all, been utterly rejected. ------------- Author Unknown
If I had a thousand heads I would rather have them all cut
off than to revoke! ------------- Luther, at Diet of
I fear not the tyranny of man, neither yet what the devil can invent against me. ------------ John Knox, in “A Godly Letter”
The business of the truth is not to be deserted even to the sacrifice of our lives, for we live not for this age of ours, nor for the princes, but for the Lord. ------------- Zwingli
A baptism of holiness, a demonstration of godly living is the crying need of our day. ------------- Duncan Campbell
To bring fire on the earth He came;
Kindled in some hearts it is,
But O that ALL might catch the blaze,
And ALL partake the glorious bliss. ------------- Author Unknown
The baptism of the heaven – descended Dove,
My heart the altar, and Thy love the flame. ------------- George Croly
Come as the fire, and purge our hearts
With sacrificial flame;
Let our whole soul and offering be
To our Redeemer’s Name. ------------- Andrew Reed
The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at the ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday. ------------- Vance Havner
There will be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience. ------------- C. G. Finney
The soul that would be free from the false spiritual reckoning of this hour will need to steel itself to a closer walk with God, a calm and heavenly frame of mind. The aspirant for spiritual wealth and for the ear of God will know much loneliness and will eat much of “the bread of affliction.” He may not know too much about family or social opposition, on the other hand, he may. But this is sure, he will know much of soul conflict, and of silences (which may create misunderstandings), and of withdrawal from even the best of company. For lovers love to be alone, and the high peaks of the soul are reached in solitude. The poet says,
I heard the call, ‘Come follow,’
That was all.
Earth’s joys grew dim,
My soul went after Him,
I rose and followed ---
That was all.
Will you not follow
If you hear His call? ------------- Leonard Ravenhill
Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry?
Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die?
Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand?
Can you sit at ease in
Give me the love that leads the way,
The faith that nothing can dismay,
The hope no disappointments tire,
The passion that will burn like fire,
Let me not sink to be a clod,
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God. ------------- Amy Wilson Carmichael
The Church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles. ------------- Samuel Chadwick
The man whose little sermon is “repent” sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age who moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a man – “off with his head!” You had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to heaven. ------------Joseph Parker
Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I may be a man of prayer! ------------- Henry Martyn
Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is it life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. I feeds on fire; it can withstand anything, rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid orlukewarn, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals. True prayer MUST be aflame! ------------- E. M. Bounds
O for a passionate passion for souls,
O for a pity that yearns!
O for the love that love unto death,
O for a fire that burns!
O for the pure prayer-power that prevails,
That pours itself out for the lost!
Victorious prayer in the Conqueror’s Name,
O for a PENTECOST!
------------- Amy Wilson Carmichael
O that in me the sacred fire
Might now begin to glow,
Burn up the dross of base desire,
And make the mountains flow! ------------ Charles Wesley
Breath on me, Breath of God,
Till I am wholly Thine,
Until this earthly part of me
Glows with They fire divine! ------------- Dr. Hatch
To make my weak heart strong and brave,
Send the fire.
To love a dying world to save,
Send the fire.
Oh see me on Thy altar lay
My life, my all, this very day;
To crown the offering now, I pray;
Send the fire! ------------- F. de L. Booth-Tucker
No hat will I have but that of a martyr, reddened with my own blood. ------------- Savonarola, when rejecting a cardinal’s hat
Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or cleverness of expression, but operates “in demonstrations of the Spirit and of power.” ------------- Arthur Wallis
Most joyfully will I confirm with my blood that truth which I have written and preached. ------------- John Huss on the stake.
The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but a love for Christ. ------------- Vance Havner
The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death. ------------- Martin Luther
Tearless hearts can never be the heralds of the Passion. ------------- Dr. J. H. Jowett
Oh! for a heart that is burdened!
Infused with a passion to pray;
Oh! For a stirring within me’
Oh! For His power every day,
Oh! For a heart like my Saviour,
Who, being in an agony, prayed.
Such caring for OTHERS, Lord, give me;
On my heart let burdens be laid,
My Father, I long for this passion,
To pour myself out for the lost –
To lay down my life to save others –
“To pray,” whatever the cost.
Lord, teach me, Oh teach me this secret,
I’m hungry this lesson to learn,
This passionate passion for others,
For this, blessed Jesus, I yearn.
Father, this lesson I long for from Thee –
Oh, let Thy Spirit reveal this to me. ------------- Mary Warburton Booth
O brother, pray, in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper – and sleep too – than not to pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber. ------------- Andrew A. Bonar
It was seven years
… before
… before Judson won his first disciple in
… that Morrison toiled before the first Chinaman was brought to Christ.
… declares Moffett, that he waited to see the first evident moving of the Holy Spirit upon his Bechuanas of Africa.
… before Henry Richards wrought the first convert, gained at Banza Manteka. ------------ A. J. Gordon
Christian men and women, self-renunciation is the cardinal ethic of the Christian Church. ------------- Dr. Charles Inwood.
“Now I leave off to speak any more to creatures, and turn my speech to Thee, O Lord. Now I begin my intercourse with God which shall never be broken off. Farewell, father and mother, friends and relations! Farewell, meat and drink! Farewell, the world and all delights! Farewell, sun,, moon and stars! Welcome God and Father! Welcome sweet Jesus, Mediator of the New Covenant! Welcome Blessed Spirit of Grace, God of all Consolation! Welcome Glory! Welcome Eternal Life! Welcome to Death!” Dr. Matthew MacKail stood below the gallows, and as his martyr cousin writhed in the tautened ropes, he clasped the helpless jerking legs together and clung to them that death might come easier and sooner. And so, with Christ, was Hugh MacKail “with his sweet boyish smile,” “And that will be my welcome,” he said; “the Spirit and the Bride say, Come.” -------------The Martyrdom of Hugh MacKail, a Covenanter
Brethren, it is just so much humbug to be waiting for this, night after night, month afer month, if we ourselves are not right with God. I must ask myself – “Is my heart pure? Are my hands clean?”
-------------- Man in
the barn at the outbreak of the
My soul, ask what thou wilt,
Thou canst not be too bold;
Since His own blood for thee he spilt,
What can He withhold? ------------ Unknown
The place of prayer,
O fruitful place!
The Spirit hovers there;
For all embodiments of grace
Are from the womb of prayer. ------------ Harold Brokke
Revival is not more a miracle than a crop of wheat. Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die – or if need be, to win and die! “The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.” ----------- Charles G. Finney
God’s cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; the so His work and carry out His plans. ------------- E. M. Bounds
Prayer is the sovereign remedy. ------------- Robert Hall
Prayer is the acid test of devotion. ------------- Samuel Chadwick
"The average Christian is so cold and contented with his wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness." ------A.W. Tozer
"The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual."
------A.W.Tozer
"What pains do children take to scrape and roll the snow together to make a snowman.
But soon after it is done, the heat of the sun dissolves it, and it comes to nothing.
The greatest treasures of worldly people are but snowmen! When death and judgment come, they melt away, and come to nothing!
'The
world with its lust is passing away.' -1
------Matthew Meade, "The Almost Christian”.
"We stink more of the world than we stink of of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church.
The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on!" ------N. Cruz
"Despite the atrociousness of it, Satan really does have "little cause to fear most preaching." Most preaching in the modern church is completely devoid of unction. Pastors are too busy playing golf or racquetball to bother spending time on their knees.
No wonder some pastors I've heard can more readily quote Dr.
Laura then bible passages pertaining to prayer. It's disastrous.
Satan need not fear under those conditions." ------A. Reavis
"After all our hopes and dreams have come and gone, and children sift through all we've left behind; May the clues that they discover, become the light that leads them to the road we each must find."
------Sung by Steve Green, " Find US Faithful"
" The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing." "So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!"
------Watchman Nee
"How do we worship our God Wholeheartedly? To answer the question we must respond to the command...
"If
you love me, you will obey what I command."
True Love is complete obedience ... half obedience is no obedience. If you love Jesus, you will obey what He commands.
This is true love and true worship." ------Unknown
"A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God." ------Leonard Ravenhill
"Resolved: that all men should live for the glory of God. Resolved
second: That whether others do or not, I will." ------ Jonathan Edwards
"The Spirit clothed himself,
He makes the record say,
With Gideon, so he became
As nothing in the fray,
But just a suit of working clothes
The Spirit wore that day."
------Unknown
"Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into
heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our
Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a
thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our
departure from the field of battle." –-----C. T. Studd
"If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all." - Ravenhill.
"Let me never become a slave to crowds." - A.W. Tozer.
"Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven?" -Thomas Watson.
"For unless your hearts are free from worldly hopes and
worldly
fears, you never will speak boldly, as you ought to speak. The
good old Puritans, I believe, never preached better than when in
danger of being taken to prison as soon as they had finished their
sermon. And however the church may be at peace now, yet I am
persuaded, unless you go forth with the same temper, you will
never preach with the same demonstration of the Spirit and of
power. Study, therefore, my brethren,–I beseech you by the
mercies of God in Christ Jesus,–study your hearts as well as
books; ask yourselves again and again whether you would preach
for Christ, if you were sure to lay down your lives for so doing?"
- Whitefield.
"Several years ago...An Uncle of mine, who was very
sound,
slipped in some good books into a suitcase one day...and I
remember coming across a book by Ernie Reisinger called
"Today's Evangelism" and I began to read it... I got half way
through that book and this is no exaggeration... and I'm not
speaking evangelistically... This is true. I fell out of that chair with
such the fear of God upon my life, and I pressed my face into
those old boards of that room in the city of Lima (third floor of an
old building we were using for a church)... I pressed my face as
far into those boards as they could get in fear as I could get... and
cried out to God, "God, If you promise not to kill me for the way
I've preached your gospel, I promise from here on out I'll never
preach it that way again." - Paul Washer ('I Am Under Obligation')
"What will it cost me for God to break my heart?"
- "It will cost you
absolutely everything." - Gerhard DuToit
"Passing along the road the other day, we thought we
had found a
very beautiful knife. On picking it up we found it to be only a
handle without a blade. So do we hear very beautiful sermons—
well written and well read—but they are without a blade. They cut
out no cancers of sin and carve out no models of piety. Sermons
must have blades!" – Anonymous
"I'm afraid from the presence of God. You know, we do
little things,
we criticize, we gossip and stuff. I was memorizing the first twelve
chapters of Acts few years ago, and I phoned my wife five o'clock
one morning. I was speaking at a bible institute, she thought that
there was something wrong, and she said: "What's going on? " I
said: "My darling I'm memorizing Acts Chapter 5, Ananias and
Sapphira." and she said: "What about that?", I said: "Yes,
they
kept back part of the price, and you remember what happened.
God struck them and they were dead." She said: "What do you
think?" and I said: "Jannes(?) if we were living in Acts chapter 5
today, there will be very few christians who will be alive." I'm
afraid of the presence of God." - Gerhard DuToit
"Mortification of the flesh is the true place of power in the Spirit."
-W. Kelly
“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 of the flowers that gathers 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, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest, and strongest Christian.” - Anonymous
"The day that you decide to fast is the day that you’ve decided to quit hiding from whatever it is that is in you that just don’t care.
That you don’t care about the naked, you don’t care about the captive, the poor, whether anyone is getting saved, whether anyone is getting healed. To even get a shred of burnt out conscience we have to show you movies of starving kids. What kind of walk is that?" - Dave Roberson - 'The Basics of Fasting – Don’t Hide From Your Flesh'
"Many people in the world have not rejected Christ. They have rejected the Christ they’ve seen, projected by Christendom.
"A lot of things that are being spoken of today as the ministry of the Holy Spirit, it’s just emotional exuberance. Because people don’t know what is soul and what is spirit….Young people are so often taken up with that exuberance and say, ‘Oh, this is Holy Spirit.’ It’s not, if it were Holy Spirit it would bring holiness.
“I’m not against noise, it’s a matter of your temperament….if your trinity is Father, Son and Noisy Spirit, mine is not….if you’re filled with the Holy Spirit, you have holiness.” - Zac Poonen - “A Renewed Soul”.
"Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1.35]."
- Thomas Brooks
"God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret.
Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison." - Thomas Brooks.
"God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6]." - Thomas Brooks.
"It was a choice saying of Augustine, 'Every saint is God's temple, and he who carries his temple about him, may go to prayer when he pleaseth'." - Thomas Brooks.
"Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord." - Thomas Brooks.
"A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions." - Thomas Brooks.
"'My sin is ever before me' [Psalm 51.3]. A humble soul sees that he can stay no more from sin, than the heart can from panting, and the pulse from beating. He sees his heart and life to be fuller of sin, than the firmament is of stars; and this keeps him low. He sees that sin is so bred in the bone, that till his bones, as Joseph's, be carried out of the Egypt of this world, it will not out.
Though sin and grace were never born together, and though they shall not die together, yet while the believer lives, these two must live together; and this keeps him humble." - Thomas Brooks.
"The
best and sweetest flowers of Paradise God gives to his people when they are
upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven, a key to let us in to
"If you will here stop and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but because you never thoroughly intended it." - William Law.
"It is not under names, creeds, or professions that men shall be
saved at the last day; those alone who were holy, who were here
conformed
to the image of Christ, shall inherit the
Those who expect it in any other way, or on any other account,
will be sadly deceived." - Adam Clarke
Conversation....
God: "Would you say that a person who watches 20 minutes of
television a week worships the TV?"
Us: "Probably not."
Father: "Then why would you say that someone who worships
ME 20 minutes a week is a worshipper of God?" - Unknown.
"Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot
rest;
heaven so real that we must have men there." -
"It may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the
hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our
own hearts and our own feeble apprehension of the solemn reality
of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success."
-
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?-- Corrie Ten Boom
We may learn hence, that we are never secure from the greatest
sins, till we guard against those which are thought the least; nor,
indeed, till we think no sin is little, since every one is a step
toward
hell. - John Wesley (-commentary on
"We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so."
-J.C. Ryle
“More than 2 billion people who do not know Jesus head toward
hell to perish for eternity, while the church laughs its way to
hysteria, claiming this is the sign of the last days’ outpouring of
the Holy Spirit…My brothers and sisters this is not Christianity”.
-K.P. Yohannan
"If you look down into a well, if it be empty it will appear to be very
deep, but if there be water in it you will see its brightness. I believe
that many 'deep' preachers are simply so because they are like
dry wells with nothing whatever in them, except decaying leaves,
a few stones, and perhaps a dead cat or two. If there be living
water in your preaching it may be very deep, but the light of truth
will give clearness to it." - C.H. Spurgeon
"If God gave you a thousand dollars every time you shared your
faith in Jesus Christ, would you share your faith? Let's be honest:
many of us would quit our day jobs and become full-time
evangelists! Every one of us, including me, ought to repent of the
fact that we would share Jesus for a measly dollar bill, instead of
sharing Him because of the unconditional love that He has for
each one of us. Would you be more zealous for money than for
God? Would you deal with your laziness problem for the love of
money when you won't deal with it for the love of God? We can't
serve both God and mammon. We can never repay Jesus for what
He did for us on the cross, but what a fantastic thank-you we can
give Him each time we step out and share our faith in Him with
the lost!" - Mark Cahill
"There are two sorts of prayers- those expressed in words, and
the unuttered longings which abide as silent meditations. Words
are not the essence but the garments of prayer... There may be
prevailing intercession where there are no words; and alas! there
may be words where there is no true supplication. Let us
cultivate the spirit of prayer, which is even better than the habit
of prayer." - C.H. Spurgeon
"The 'flesh' is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified."
-Watchman
Nee (The
"A church with apostolic foundations is that body of people whose
central impulse and principle of life, being and service is one thing
only, namely, a radical and total jealousy for the glory of God."
- Art Katz (-Apostolic Foundations)
A Preacher on the Fence
From out of the millions of the earth
God often calls a man
To preach the word, and for the truth
To take a royal stand.
“Tis sad to see him shun the cross,
Nor stand in its defense
Between the fields of right and wrong:
A preacher on the fence.
Before him are the souls of men
Bound for Heaven or Hell;
An open Bible in his hand,
And yet he will not tell
All the truth that’s written there,
It haveth an offence -
The joys of Heaven, the horrors of Hell -
A preacher on the fence.
Now surely God has called the man
To battle for the right.
“Tis his to ferret out the wrong
And turn on us the light.
And yet he dare not tell the truth,
He fears the consequence,
The most disgusting thing on earth
Is a preacher on the fence.
If he should stand up for the wrong,
The right he’d not defend;
If he should stand up for the right,
The wrong he would offend.
His mouth is closed, he cannot speak
For freedom or against.
Great God deliver us from
A preacher on the fence.
But soon both sides will find him out
And brand him as a fraud,
A coward who dares not to please
The devil or his God.
Oh God, free us from fear of man,
From cowardly pretence;
Cleanse out the dross and fear of loss,
And keep us off the fence.
–Author Unknown
“How we have prayed for a Revival - we did
not care whether it was old-fashioned or not - what we asked for was that it
should be such that would cleanse and revive His children and set them on fire
to win others.” - Mary Warburton Booth
"The essence of prayer does not consist
in asking God for something but in opening our hearts to God, in speaking with
Him, and living with Him in perpetual communion. Prayer is continual
abandonment to God. Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we
want; it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life, Prayer
is not asking, but union with God. Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from
God help in the varying needs of our lives. Prayer is the desire to possess God
Himself, the Source of all life. The true spirit of prayer does not consist in
asking for blessings, but in receiving Him who is the giver of all blessings,
and in living a life of fellowship with Him." - Sadhu Sundar Singh
"The Word of God represents all the
possibilities of God as at the disposal of true prayer." -A. T. Pierson
"What a man is on his knees before God
in secret, that will he be before men: that much and no more." -Fred
Mitchell
"Whether we like it or not, asking is
the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and
nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is."
-C. H. Spurgeon
"Prayer - secret, fervent, believing
prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness." -William Carey
"The energies of the universe, nay, of
God Himself, are at the disposal of those who pray - to the man who stirreth up
himself to take hold of God." –- Samuel Zwemer
"There is absolutely no substitute for
this secret communion with God. The public Church services, or even the family
altar, cannot take the place of the 'closet' prayer. We must deliberately seek
to meet with God absolutely alone, and to secure such aloneness with God we are
bidden to 'enter into thy closet.' God absolutely insists on this
'closet'-communion with Himself. One reason, no doubt, that He demands it, is
to test our sincerity. There is no test for the soul like solitude. Do you
shrink from solitude? Perhaps the cause for your neglect of the 'closet' is a
guilty conscience?
You are afraid to enter into the solitude. You know that however cheerful you appear
to be you are not really happy. You surround yourself with company lest, being
alone, truth should invade your delusion…" – Gordon Cove
"Revival, as contrasted with a Holy
Ghost atmosphere is a clean- cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy Ghost
power, bending the hearts of hardened sinners as the wheat before the wind,
breaking up the fountains of the great deep, sweeping the whole range of the
emotions, as the master hand moves across the harp strings, from the tears and
cries of the penitent to the holy laughter and triumphant joy of the
cleansed." – Norman Grubb
"Prayer meetings are dead affairs when
they are merely asking sessions; there is adventure, hope and life when they
are believing sessions, and the faith is corporately, practically and
deliberately affirmed." – Norman Grubb
"I want deliberately to encourage this
mighty longing after God.
The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden
quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire.
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth.
Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His
people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long,
so very long, in vain." – A. W. Tozer
"Has it ever occurred to you that one
hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each
other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another
standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers
meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each
other than they could possibly be were they to become ‘unity’ conscious and
turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship. Social religion
is perfected when private religion is purified. The body becomes stronger as
its members become healthier. The whole
– A. W. Tozer
"It is morally impossible to exercise
trust in God while there is failure to wait upon Him for guidance and
direction. The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his
thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust,
which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of
crisis and difficulty." - D. E. Hoste
"I find it a good thing to fast. I do
not lay down rules for anyone in this matter, but I know it has been a good
thing for me to go without meals to get time for prayer. So many say they have
not sufficient time to pray. We think nothing of spending an hour or two in
taking our meals." - D. E. Hoste
"Should it not be recognized that the
practice of prayer and intercession needs to be taught to young believers, or
rather developed in young believers, quite as much, if not more so than other
branches of the curriculum? Unless, however, we ourselves are, through constant
persevering practice, truly alive unto God in this holy warfare, we shall be
ineffective in influencing others. I am quite sure the rule holds that the more
we pray the more we want to pray; the converse also being true." - D. E.
Hoste
"I should like to allude to a few
points in the character of Mr.
Hudson Taylor which impressed me personally, and which I think had something to
do with the blessing that God granted to his efforts on behalf of this country
(
- D. E. Hoste
"Out of a very intimate acquaintance
with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he
was preacher.
Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable,
but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to
bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed
in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and
that prayer could do anything that God could do. " – R. A. Torrey.
"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
“Some people do not like to hear much of
repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit,
I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would
desire to die practicing it.” - Matthew Henry
"In the vast plain to the north I have
sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no
missionary has ever been" -- Robert Moffat, who inspired David Livingstone
"If a commission by an earthly king is
considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a
sacrifice?"
-- David Livingstone
"Sympathy is no substitute for
action." -- David Livingstone
"Can't you do just a little bit
more?" -- J.G. Morrison
"Lost people matter to God, and so they
must matter to us."
-- Keith Wright
"The Bible is not the basis of
missions; missions is the basis of the Bible" -- Ralph Winter
"Some wish to live within the sound of
a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell." --
C.T. Studd
"If Jesus Christ be God and died for
me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him." -- C.T.
Studd
"No one has the right to hear the
gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once." --
Oswald J. Smith
"Any church that is not seriously
involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical
right to exist." -- Oswald J. Smith
"The mission of the church is
missions" -- Oswald J. Smith
"We talk of the Second Coming; half the
world has never heard of the first." -- Oswald J. Smith
"This generation of Christians is
responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!" -- Keith Green
"There is nothing in the world or the
Church -- except the church's disobedience -- to render the evangelization of
the world in this generation an impossibility." -- Robert Speer
"If God calls you to be a missionary,
don't stoop to be a king"
-- Jordan Groom
"I find it most intriguing to
contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus
Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in
eternity." - Leonard Ravenhill
"We all have to come to the realization
that, as Jesus said "Apart from me, YOU CAN DO NOTHING". We cannot
preach with any effect upon the souls of men at anytime or at any place. But it
is like falling off a log to Him. For Christ to win souls is a daily
occurrence." - Tim Gogerty.
“Some people do not like to hear much of
repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit,
I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would
desire to die practicing it.” - Matthew Henry
"In the vast plain to the north I have
sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no
missionary has ever been" -- Robert Moffat, who inspired David Livingstone
"If a commission by an earthly king is
considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a
sacrifice?"
-- David Livingstone
"Sympathy is no substitute for
action." -- David Livingstone
"Can't you do just a little bit
more?" -- J.G. Morrison
"Lost people matter to God, and so they
must matter to us."
-- Keith Wright
"The Bible is not the basis of
missions; missions is the basis of the Bible" -- Ralph Winter
"Some wish to live within the sound of a
chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell." --
C.T. Studd
"If Jesus Christ be God and died for
me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him." -- C.T.
Studd
"No one has the right to hear the
gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once." --
Oswald J. Smith
"Any church that is not seriously
involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical
right to exist." -- Oswald J. Smith
"The mission of the church is
missions" -- Oswald J. Smith
"We talk of the Second Coming; half the
world has never heard of the first." -- Oswald J. Smith
"This generation of Christians is
responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!" -- Keith Green
"There is nothing in the world or the
Church -- except the church's disobedience -- to render the evangelization of
the world in this generation an impossibility." -- Robert Speer
"If God calls you to be a missionary,
don't stoop to be a king"
-- Jordan Groom
"I find it most intriguing to
contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus
Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in
eternity." - Leonard Ravenhill
"We all have to come to the realization
that, as Jesus said "Apart from me, YOU CAN DO NOTHING". We cannot
preach with any effect upon the souls of men at anytime or at any place. But it
is like falling off a log to Him. For Christ to win souls is a daily
occurrence." - Tim Gogerty.
“Some people do not like to hear much of
repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit,
I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would
desire to die practicing it.” - Matthew Henry
"In the vast plain to the north I have
sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no
missionary has ever been" -- Robert Moffat, who inspired David Livingstone
"If a commission by an earthly king is
considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a
sacrifice?"
-- David Livingstone
"Sympathy is no substitute for
action." -- David Livingstone
"Can't you do just a little bit
more?" -- J.G. Morrison
"Lost people matter to God, and so they
must matter to us."
-- Keith Wright
"The Bible is not the basis of
missions; missions is the basis of the Bible" -- Ralph Winter
"Some wish to live within the sound of
a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell." --
C.T. Studd
"If Jesus Christ be God and died for
me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him." -- C.T.
Studd
"No one has the right to hear the
gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once." --
Oswald J. Smith
"Any church that is not seriously
involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical
right to exist." -- Oswald J. Smith
"The mission of the church is
missions" -- Oswald J. Smith
"We talk of the Second Coming; half the
world has never heard of the first." -- Oswald J. Smith
"This generation of Christians is
responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!" -- Keith Green
"There is nothing in the world or the
Church -- except the church's disobedience -- to render the evangelization of
the world in this generation an impossibility." -- Robert Speer
"If God calls you to be a missionary,
don't stoop to be a king"
-- Jordan Groom
"I find it most intriguing to
contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus
Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in
eternity." - Leonard Ravenhill
"We all have to come to the realization
that, as Jesus said "Apart from me, YOU CAN DO NOTHING". We cannot
preach with any effect upon the souls of men at anytime or at any place. But it
is like falling off a log to Him. For Christ to win souls is a daily
occurrence." - Tim Gogerty.
"If
the church would only awaken to her responsibility of intercession, we could
well evangelize the world in a short time. It is not God's plan that the world
be merely evangelized ultimately.
It
should be evangelized in every generation. There should be a constant gospel
witness in every corner of the world so that no sinner need close his eyes in
death without hearing the gospel, the good news of salvation through
Christ." - T. A. Hegre
"Hell
is larger today than it was yesterday, because many of us have failed to
pray." - David Smithers
"There
is no power like that of prevailing prayer, of Abraham pleading for Sodom,
Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach,
Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus
in sweat of blood.
Add
to this list from the records of the church your personal observation and
experience, and always there is the cost of passion unto blood. Such prayer
prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It
brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God." - Samuel
Chadwick
"If
we do not thirst here we shall thirst when it is too late; if we do not thirst
as David did, ‘My soul thirsteth for God’ (Ps. 42: 2), we shall thirst as Dives
did for a drop of water." -Thomas Watson
"Once
a poor soul entered the school of prayer after his arrival in hell. He asked
for relief from his agony; it was refused. He asked that a beggar warn his
brothers; he was turned down. He was praying to Abraham, a man; he could not
locate God. He dared not ask to get out; he plainly knew that he was beyond all
hope.
Prayerless
on earth, unanswered in hell, he suffers on as the man who tried to learn to
pray too late." - Cameron V. Thompson
"Of
all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more
neglected than prayer. Most people consider the exercise a fatiguing ceremony,
which they are justified in abridging as much as possible. Even those whose
profession or fears lead them to pray, pray with such languor and wanderings of
mind that their prayers, far from drawing down blessings, only increase their
condemnation." - Fenelon
"How
hard is it sometimes to get leave of hearts to seek God!
Jesus
Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of
grace." - Thomas Watson
"The
Western church has lost the prayer stamina of the mission churches in Asia,
Africa,
"The
prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the great Jehovah
yields. Prayer is the sovereign remedy." - Robert Hall
"Bear
up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees.
Have you any days of fasting and prayer?
Storm
the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down." -
John Wesley
"How
many Christians there are who cannot pray, and who seek by effort, resolve,
joining prayer circles, etc., to cultivate in themselves the "holy art of intercession,"
and all to no purpose.
Here
for them and for all is the only secret of a real prayer life-"Be filled
with the Spirit," who is "the Spirit of grace and supplication."
- J. Stuart Holden
"Whole
days and WEEKS have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal
prayer." - George Whitefteld
"All
decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with
God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it." - John Berridge
"No
erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of
eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire.
Prayer
ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well
as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame." -
E. M. Bounds
"Truth
without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things
Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a
godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition." - Samuel
Chadwick
"I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done." - Hudson Taylor
"Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible."- Corrie ten Boom "We never test the resources of God until we attempt the IMPOSSIBLE." - F.B. Meyer
"Until we reach for the IMPOSSIBLE through fervent, faith-filled prayer, we will NEVER fulfill our created purpose!" - David Smithers
"Nothing is IMPOSSIBLE with GOD." - Luke 1: 37
"A church without an intelligent, well-organized, and systematic prayer program is simply operating a religious treadmill." - Paul E. Billheimer
"God will do nothing but in answer to prayer." - John Wesley
"The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Prayer is striking the winning blow ... service is gathering up the results." - S.D. Gordon
"Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees." - Corrie ten Boom
"God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him." - Fenelon
"God will either give you what you ask, or something far better." - Robert Murray McCheyne
"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?" - Corrie ten Boom
"Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men." - Oswald Chambers
"Our prayers lay the track down which God’s power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails." - Watchman Nee
"Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet." - E. M. Bounds
"Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue. God’s voice in response to mine is its most essential part." - Andrew Murray
"Prayerlessness is a sin." - Corrie ten Boom
"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees." - William Cowper
"Are you living for the things you are praying for?" - Austin Phelps
“Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!" - Oswald J. Smith
“Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh....Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them." - A. W. Tozer
“A prayerless man is proud and independent, and any church that neglects corporate prayer is sadly no better. Only God's humble and needy children take the time to pray. Everyone else is just going through the motions and naively trusting in their own strength!” –David Smithers
"We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist--Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation.
And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy." -A. W. Tozer
"The time factor in prayer is very important. In the exercise of prayer God is not tied to our clocks. Neither is He at the other end of the phone to receive and answer our two-minute calls. It takes time to know the mind of God, to shut out the material things of earth and to be wholly abandoned." -Hugh C. C. McCullough
"Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth." - John Wesley
"He can do all things who prays well. All soul-winners have conquered on their knees. Wherever the secret of prevailing prayer is found, something supernatural will come to pass." - G. F. Oliver
"No system of doctrine, preaching and worship which fails to develop prayer, faith, spiritual labor, and success in converting souls from sin, can long have the face to claim to be the religion of Jesus Christ!" -William W. Patton
"The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church...grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil." - Leonard Ravenhill
"There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we nonetheless prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord." - William Booth
"We must continue in prayer if we are to get an outpouring of the Spirit. Christ says there are some things we shall not get, unless we pray and fast, yes, "prayer and fasting." We must control the flesh and abstain from whatever hinders direct fellowship with God."
- Andrew Bonar
"The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph." - Samuel Zwemer
"This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere." - Leonard Ravenhill
"Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience." - A. W. Tozer
"We have lost the sacred art of spending time with God, and nothing else can ever take its place. No repentance however deep, no restitution however costly, no sorrow however complete, can do away with the necessity for a daily time of sacred quiet, alone with God." ( Keswick 1946 ) – Gordon M. Guinness
"When our quiet times have become hurried, how can we expect to give God the adoration that is His due? How can we receive the guidance that God is waiting to give? How can our hearts catch the glow of divine fire? How can we have deep fellowship with those purposes that are really nearest to the heart of God?"
(Keswick 1946 ) – Gordon M. Guinness
"I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians."
– Samuel M. Zwemer
"I have said that there is nothing in the world or the Church, except its disobedience, to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility…" – Robert E. Speer
"Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field." – John R. Mott
"The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer." – John R. Mott
"If added power attends the united prayer of two or three, what mighty triumphs there will be when hundreds of thousands of consistent members of the Church are with one accord day by day making intercession for the extension of Christ's Kingdom." – John R. Mott
"The evangelization of the world in this generation depends first of all upon a revival of prayer. Deeper than the need for men; deeper, far, than the need for money; aye, deep down at the bottom of our spiritless life is the need for the forgotten secret of prevailing, world-wide prayer." – Robert E. Speer
"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
"Christ is a Savior for those realizing something of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, who feel the awful burden of it on their conscience, who loathe themselves for it, who long to be freed from its terrible dominion; and a Savior for no others." - A. W. Pink
"Faith and prayer are so inter-linked that faith is prayer and prayer is faith. You cannot separate them. You could not have the one without the other." – A. Lindsay Glegg
"Is the Gospel really dynamite, or does it need all sorts of human institutions and money? Much of the work we have done in the name of Jesus Christ has been, not to perform miracles of the Holy Ghost, but miracles of gold." –David Griffin
"If we go about apologizing for speaking to people of the things of God, we must not be very much surprised if they catch our timidity and they feel awkward and we feel awkward. There is a certain shyness and awkwardness about us when we go to tell men and women of the things of eternal life, which react upon them until they become nervous and awkward too." –Mildred Cable
"God has called us to co-operate with Him in making the Gospel known to our generation." - J. Stuart Holden
"My business is with all my might to serve my own generation. In doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord tarry…I have but one life to live on earth and this one life is but a brief life for sowing in comparison with eternity for reaping."
-George Müller.
'If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the Word of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Him. Where the battle rages there the loyalty of the soldier is proved and to be steady on all the battle front besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.' - Martin Luther
"If you don't plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don't begin; for this is what Christianity is all about. It is a change of citizenship, a change of governments, a change of allegience. If you have no intention of letting Christ rule your life, then forget Christianity; it's not for you." - K. Arthur
"Our murmuring is the devil's music." - Thomas Watson
"Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity." - Horatius Bonar
"Preach abroad! It is the cooping yourselves up in rooms that has dampened the work of God, which never was and never will be carried out to any purpose without going into the highways and hedges and compelling men and women to come in."
- Jonathan Edwards.
"No sort of defense is needed for preaching outdoors, but it would take a very strong argument to prove that a man who has never preached beyond the walls of his meetinghouse has done his duty.
A defense is required for services within buildings rather than for worship outside of them." - William Booth
"The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church...grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil." - Leonard Ravenhill
"One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do no constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always."
- A. W. Tozer
"It is God's way to let ministers try all their strength first, and then He Himself comes and subdues the hearts they cannot."
- Jonathan Edwards
"A man full of hope will be full of action." - Thomas Brooks
"We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so."
- J.C. Ryle
"Finney preached, and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! That's good preaching." - Leonard Ravenhill
"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 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
"Being broken is both God's work and ours. He brings His pressure to bear, but we have to make the choice...All day long the choice will be before us in a thousand ways." - Roy Hession.
"Let me learn by paradox
that the way down is the way up,
that to be low is to be high,
that the broken heart is the healed heart, that the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit, that the repenting soul is the victorious soul, that to have nothing is to possess all, that to bear the cross is to wear the crown, that to give is to receive, that the valley is the place of vision."
-Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions.
"When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves." - A. W. Tozer
"When filled with holy truth the mind rests."— C.H. Spurgeon
"IF you want to be the first among your brothers and sisters, then you have to be a bond-slave, not only to Christ, but to your brothers and sisters." - Stephen Kaung
"We must frankly face the fact that there is in this teaching a revolutionary element which could be dangerously subversive of our existing ways of thought. Let us admit that it is part of the fallen human nature of ecclesiastics, no less than of others in responsible positions, to desire always criteria of judgement which can be used without making too heavy demands upon the delicate faculty of spiritual discernment, clear-cut rules by which we may hope to be saved from making mistakes -- or rather, from being obviously and personally responsible for the mistakes. We are uncomfortable without definite principles by which we may guide our steps. We fear uncharted country, and the fanatics of all kinds who, upon the alleged authority of the Holy Spirit, summon us with strident cries in all directions simultaneously. Only those who have never borne the heavy burden of pastoral responsibility will mock at the cautious spirit of the ecclesiastic." - Lesslie Newbigin
"Some people read their Bible in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost." - Smith Wigglesworth
"I am convinced that many evangelicals are not truly and soundly converted. Among the evangelicals it is entirely possible to come into membership, to ooze in by osmosis, to leak through the cells of the church and never know what it means to be born of the Spirit and washed in the blood. A great deal that passes for the deeper life is nothing more or less than basic Christianity. There is nothing deeper about it, and it is where we should have been from the start...
What we need is what the old Methodists called a sound conversion. There is a difference between conversion and a sound conversion. People who have never been soundly converted do not have the Spirit to enlighten them. When they read the Sermon on the Mount or the teaching passages of the epistles that tell them how to live or the doctrinal passages that tell how they can live, they are unaffected. The Spirit who wrote them is not witnessing in their hearts because they have not been born of the Spirit. That often happens." - A W Tozer.
"No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight." - John Calvin
"With all your getting get unction." - Leonard Ravenhill
"When the Lord reveals His will to us and we obey, our mission will be a success regardless of the results." - Chinese house church leaders, Back to Jerusalem movement
"Those who are God's true witnesses are firmly anchored in Him, in love or in suffering, no matter what God may give or take away.
They do not set much store by their own methods; if they prove helpful to their spiritual life, well and good. But God, in his loving foresight, often shatters their foundations and thus they frequently find themselves thwarted.
If they want to keep vigil, they are obliged to sleep; if they like to fast, they are made to eat; if they would like to keep silence and be at rest, they have to do otherwise. In this way, everything they cleave to crumbles, and they are brought face-to-face with their bare nothingness. Thus they are shown how total is their dependence on God, and they learn to confess Him with a pure and simple faith, with no other support to sustain them."
- Johannes Tauler.
"Worship renews the spirit as sleep renews the body."
- Richard Clarke Cabot
"It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you." - George Macdonald
"The saintly Andrew Bonar used to soak his pillow with tears every Saturday night in Scotland as people below trampled the streets returning from the taverns and shows. He would cry from the depths of his agonizing heart, "Oh! They perish, they perish!""
"Defend the Bible? I would just as soon defend a lion. Just turn the Bible loose. It will defend itself." - Charles Spurgeon
"Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love." - Hannah More
"We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so." - J C. Ryle
"Having a full life is not necessarily a long life." - unknown
"The world isn't reading the Bible; they're reading Christians like you. And if they don't like what they see in you, they're not going to want what you've got -- Jesus." - Christnotes.org
"Only one life will soon be past;
only what's done for Christ will last.
And when I am dying, how happy I'll be,
if the lamp of my life has been burned out for Thee."
- Charles T. Studd
"Inner purity results in outer power." - Christnotes.org
"With complete consecration comes perfect peace." - Watchman Nee
"No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language." - Fisher Ame
"It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do." - Mark Twain
"Abandon the world,
Burden our hearts with the lost,
Invest our lives in the cross,
Die to ouselves, then will we
Emerge fruitful--as Jesus desires in John 15."
- D.E. Gifford
"One of the greatest dangers in the Christian life is losing interest in what is familiar." - Brad Lambert
"Tell me what you do with your time and money and I will tell you where your heart is." - Xavier
"The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society."
- C. Stacey Woods
"We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own." - John Owen
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