Quotable Notable Christians
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"The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God."
-Charles Stanley
"If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ."
-Leonard Ravenhill
"Many deceptions only appeal to us because there is something inside us that "wants" to believe them. They are seductive because of darkness and wrong motives in our own lives. We must search our hearts and root these out."
-Andrew Strom
"As Christ has a Gospel, Satan has a gospel too; the latter being a clever counterfeit of the former. So closely does the gospel of Satan resemble that which it parades, multitudes of the unsaved are deceived by it."
-A.W. Pink
"If you have been touched or involved in any way with manifestations or experiences that you think may not have been from God, then I urge you to utterly RENOUNCE (with your mouth, but also from the depths of your very being in Jesus' name) any links or involve-ment with that experience or 'anointing'."
-Andrew Strom
"How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?"
- Leonard Ravenhill
"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
"If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease?"
- Leonard Ravenhill
"When God breaks into a life or a community, nothing else matters save the person of Jesus, the glory of Jesus, the name of Jesus."
- Stephen Olford
"True revival is that divine moment when God bursts upon the scene and displays his glory."
- Del Fehsenfeld Jr.
"The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer."
-William Gurnall
"Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross."
- George Whitefield
"Israel prevailed with God in wrestling with Him... If so be that we will wrestle with God for a blessing, and prevail with Him, then we need not to fear"
-Alexander Henderson
"I had rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous."
-Thomas Lye
"To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth."
-Charles Spurgeon
"He is ever the Rewarder of those who 'diligently seek Him.' not the mere casual inquirer."
-Al Whittinghill
"Without the heartbeat of prayer, the body of Christ will resemble a corpse. The church is dying on her feet because she is not living on her knees."
-Al Whittinghill
"Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness.."
-A.W. Tozer
"The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory."
- Richard Sibbes
"Let us use worldly things as wise pilgrims do their staves and other necessaries convenient for their journey. So long as they help us forward in our way, let us make use of them, and accordingly esteem them. But if they become troublesome hindrances and cumbersome burdens, let us leave them behind us, or cast them away."
-George Downame
"It does not appear that these extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost were common in the Church for more than two or three centuries. We seldom hear of them after that fatal period when the Emperor Constantine called himself a Christian;...From this time they almost totally ceased;...The Christians had no more of the Spirit of Christ than the other heathens....This was the real cause why the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost were no longer to be found in the Christian Church; because the Christians were turned Heathens again, and had only a dead form left."
- John Wesley
"God did not save us to make us happy, He saved us to make us holy."
- Dr. Jerry Benjamin
"The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right."
-David Wilkerson
"It doesn't have to be a barrage of information to lead a soul to Christ. Sometimes you just have to speak their name."
- Carter Conlon
"The Holy Spirit did not come to make them of one accord, He came because they were of one accord...
It is not the music that tunes your piano, it's the tuned piano that makes your music."
- A.W. Tozer
"Do not let us imagine that we can take into our fellowship and enlist under one banner men who simply affirm truth about Jesus, unless in their own lives there is an absolute loyalty to the Lord Christ."
- G. Campbell Morgan
"The world doesn´t believe the Bible, Christians don´t obey the Bible."
- Leonard Ravenhill
"Men will allow God to be everywhere except on His throne!"
-C.H. Spurgeon
"...We want Him as long as He doesn't change what we like. But any person not open to change is NOT open to revival."
-Al Whittinghill
"It is far better to drive men away by faithful preaching than to drive the Holy Spirit away by unfaithful preaching!"
-Al Whittinghill
"Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hyprocrites and heretics ceases.. and all things are in peace. This is a sure token that the devil is guarding the entry to the house, and that the PURE doctrine of God's Word has been taken away. The Church then, is in the BEST state, when Satan assaileth it on every side...both with subtle sleights, and outright violence. And likewise it is in the WORST state when it is most at peace!"
-Martin Luther
"Revival will come only to a desperate church, not a contented one. He is ever the Rewarder of those who 'diligently seek Him.' not the mere casual inquirer."
-Al Whittinghill
"Most Americans worship their work, work at their play, and play at their worship."
-Al Whittinghill"
"Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church. Each generation of Christians is the seed of the next, and degenerate seed is sure to produce a degenerate harvest."
-A.W. Tozer
"Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness. So do not seek to hide from it. Do not accept an easy way. Do not allow yourself to be patted to sleep in a comfortable church, void of power and barren of fruit. Do not paint the cross nor deck it with flowers. Take it for what it is, as it is, and you will find it the rugged way to death and life. Let it slay you utterly."
-A.W. Tozer
"I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion."
- A.W. Tozer
"We end up blaming God's sovereignty for the sad state of the church. If there is no revival in the church, we can be very sure that the lack is on our part and not God's!"
-Al Whittinghill
"A real Christian is an odd number, anyway. He feels supreme love for the One whom he has never seen; talks with familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see; expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another; empties himself in order to be full; admits he is wrong so he can be declared right; goes down in order to get up; is strongest when he is weakest; richest when he is poorest and happiest when he feels the worst. He dies so he can live; forsakes in order to have; gives away so he can keep; sees the invisible; hears the inaudible' and knows that which passeth understanding."
- A.W. Tozer
"You know, people say that today. 'Oh, I am just a saved sinner.' That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is like saying you are an honest thief... You are either saved or you are a sinner."
-Leonard Ravenhill
"Though there are some tearful intercessors behind the scenes, I grant you that to our modern Christianity, praying is foreign."
- Leonard Ravenhill
"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
"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
"An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction."
- Thomas Brooks
"If we refuse to prescribe to the Christ honored methods of humility and prayer, we will certainly be refused for the Master's use in the coming revival."
- David Smithers
"Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results."
-E.M. Bounds
"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"
"I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again"
-Richard Wurmbrand
"God never denied that soul anything that went as far as heaven to ask for it."
- John Trapp
"It has often been said that prayer is the greatest force in the universe. This is no exaggeration. It will bear constant repetition. In this atomic age when forces are being released that stagger the thought and imagination of man, it is well to remember that prayer transcends all other forces."
- F. J. Huegel
"They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls."
- Adam Clarke
"We need more men like John Knox in pulpits today; men who know the truth and are willing to risk their lives for it if need be."
-D.R. Brooker
"It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won."
- J. H. Jowett
"Christ was in an agony at prayer (Luke 22: 44). Many when they pray are rather in a lethargy, than in an agony. When they are about the world they are all fire; when they are at prayer, they are all Ice."
- Thomas Watson
"I have never known a person sweat blood; but I have known a person pray till the blood started from his nose. And I have known persons to pray till they were all wet with perspiration, in the coldest weather in winter. I have known persons pray for hours, till their strength was all exhausted with the agony of their minds. Such prayers prevailed with God."
- Charles G. Finney
"He that leaves off prayer leaves off the fear of God."
- Thomas Watson
"Workers that are strangers to knee work may work up a temporary excitement, but never will be able to secure the copious outpourings of genuine revival power."
- Martin Wells Knapp
"God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the IMPOSSIBLE."
- William Booth.
"Depend upon it, if you are bent on prayer, the devil will not leave you alone. He will molest you, tantalize you, block you... What he minds, and opposes steadily, is the prayer that prays on until it is prayed through, assured of the answer."
- Mary Warburton Booth
"If we once get above our Bibles, and cease making the written Word of God sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion, and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith.'"
-George Whitefield
"God is not looking for brilliant men, is not depending upon eloquent men, is not shut up to the use of talented men in sending His Gospel out in the world. God is looking for the broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the Cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God."
-H.A. Ironside
"Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness. So do not seek to hide from it. Do not accept an easy
way. Do not allow yourself to be patted to sleep in a comfortable church, void of power and barren of fruit. Do not paint the cross nor deck it with flowers. Take it for what it is, as it is, and you will find it the rugged way to death and life. Let it slay you utterly."
-A.W. Tozer"
Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background."
-J.C. Ryle.
"Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted."
-J.C. Ryle.
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." --Martin Luther
"Peace if possible, truth at all costs." --Martin Luther
"God does not prosper a man's business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel. He prospers a business so that twelve percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation."
-John Piper.
"The devil's war is better then the devil's peace."
-Samuel Rutherford
"The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still."
- A. W. Tozer
"A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men."
- Leonard Ravenhill
"That, which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort."
- John Flavel
"Christ was in an agony at prayer (Luke 22: 44). Many when they
pray are rather in a lethargy, than in an agony. When they are
about the world they are all fire; when they are at prayer, they are
all Ice."
- Thomas Watson
"How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches
and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they
practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work
themselves."
- C.T. Studd
"The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power."
-Samuel Chadwick
"What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!"
- Thomas Brooks
"He that is down needs fear no fall; He that is low, no pride."
-John Bunyan
"A life spent in the service of God and in communion with him, is the most pleasant life that any one can live in the world."
- Matthew Henry
"Hell is larger today than it was yesterday, because many of us have failed to pray."
- David Smithers
"You know, people say that today. "Oh, I am just a saved sinner." That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is like saying you are an honest thief, or a pure harlot. You can´t be a saved sinner. You are either saved or you are a sinner. He came. "Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins."
-Leonard Ravenhill
"You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness."
-Leonard Ravenhill
"Friend, you will never stumble as long as you are on your knees!"
-Raymond Beasley
"You say to me; 'Oh brother, we are "in the world" [and not of it]' Sure you are, but you don't have to pump it into your living room!! Garbage in, Garbage out !!!"
- Paul Washer
"Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin."
- A. W. Tozer
"At any point in all of Eternity, we can say, 'This is just the beginning.' How wonderful for those who are with Christ. How unimaginably dreadful for those who are not."
- Leonard Ravenhill
"People take salvation today in such a cold, formal, matter-of-fact, business-like sort of way, that it appears as though they are doing God an honor in condescending to receive His offer of Redemption. Their eyes are dry, their sense of sin absent; nor is there any sign of penitence and contrition... But oh, if there were conviction! if they came with hearts bowed down, yea! broken and contrite, came with the cry of the guilt-laden soul: "God be merciful to me a sinner!"--came trembling with the burning life and death question of the Philippian jailor: "What must I do to be saved ?"--what converts they would be!"
-Oswald J. Smith
"The Word of God is a looking glass, to show us our spots; and the blood of Christ is a fountain to wash them away."
-Thomas Watson
"Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly out of it without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Blessed Redeemer. At the very least, let us see to it that when the Devil gets news of our departure from the battlefield, he throws a thanksgiving party in Hell."
-C.T. Studd
"Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be a miracle."
- Phillips Brooks
"For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step."
- Thomas a' Kempis
"The doctrinal ignorance of the evangelical church is shocking."
- MacArthur
"The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard." - Andrew Murray
"A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution."
- E.M. Bounds
"Let me never become a slave to crowds."
- A.W. Tozer
"The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world."
- G. Campbell Morgan
"A hundred years ago they read less about the Bible and more out of the old Book itself!"
- Charles L. Goodell
"At any point in all of Eternity, we can say, 'This is just the beginning.' How wonderful for those who are with Christ. How unimaginably dreadful for those who are not."
- Leonard Ravenhill
"He frequently emphasized the fact that anything which is not Christ in resurrection is not the church."
-Watchman Nee
"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
"The gospel is not suited, and cannot be made to suit, the corrupt dispositions and inclinations of the carnal mind."
-Robert Hall
"It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience."
-Thomas Brooks
"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."
- George Whitefield
"The 'flesh' is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified."
-Watchman Nee
"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"
- Corrie Ten Boom
"You had better be a poor man and a rich Christian, than a rich man and a poor Christian. You had better do anything, bear anything, and be anything rather than be a dwarf in grace."
- Thomas Brooks
"God sees us in secret, therefore, let us seek his face in secret."
- Thomas Brooks
"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
"Many people in the world have not rejected Christ. They have rejected the Christ they've seen, projected by Christendom."
-Zac Poonen
"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."
-Zac Poonen
"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 he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest, and strongest Christian."
- Anonymous
"What will it cost me for God to break my heart? It will cost you absolutely everything."
-Gerhard DuToit
"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
"You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience"
- Edwin Louis Cole
"Peace is the umpire for knowing the will of God."
- Ed Cole
"Be ready to cut off everything that would hinder, and cast it from you. Be ready and willing to suffer the loss of possessions, of friends, of health - of all things on earth - so you may enter into the kingdom of heaven."
- John Wesley
"When a prophet is accepted and deified, his message is lost. The prophet is only useful so long as he is stoned as a public nuisance calling us to repentance, disturbing our comfortable routines, breaking our respectable idols, shattering our sacred conventions."
-A. G. Gardiner.
"The function of the Prophet has almost invariably been that of recovery... for obvious reasons, the people were not disposed to go the costly way of God's full purpose, the Prophet was usually an unpopular person."
-T. Austin Sparks
"Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. 'You troubler of Israel' was the way Ahab addressed Elijah."
-Arthur Wallis.
"The one concern of the devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray."
-Samuel Chadwick
"It was not John Hyde: it was the Holy Spirit of God whom one consecrated man, filled with that Spirit, brought down upon all around him. May we not all become 'Praying Hydes?' "
- Anonymous
"We rush unthinkingly and unpreparedly into God's presence, without realizing the majesty and glory of the God whom we are approaching, and without reflecting upon the exceeding great riches of his glory in Christ Jesus, which we hope to draw upon? We must 'think magnificently of God.' "
- Anonymous
"You dedicate and then God consecrates."
- Keith Daniel
"The history of God's specific movements with the Church is not the history of His adding something, but of His bringing back to the primal fullness with which He filled His Son."
-T. Austin Sparks
"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
"A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant."
- Stephen Charnock
"No man is ever fully accepted until he has, first of all, been utterly rejected."
- Unknown
"We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too."
-John Calvin
"The secret of following God's will is wrapped in rejecting the good for God's best."
- K.P. Yohannan
"There is nothing little in God."
-C.H. Spurgeon
"I love to live on the brink of eternity."
-David Brainerd
"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"
-Corrie Ten Boom
"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 Paradise."
- Thomas Brooks
"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: "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.
"I'm not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on 'how to cope' to a multitude of people who are dying and going to hell. I tremble at the thought."
- David Wilkerson
"Speak every time my dear brother as if it were your last..."
- George Whitefield
"Some of the greatest satanic activity in the end times will take place in the pulpit." - Dwight Pentecost
"We must go back to the doctrines. I fear that the new generation does not know the doctrines as our fathers knew them."
-John A. Broadus
"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car."
-Laurence J. Peter
"If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power."
- Billy Sunday
"Satan dreads nothing but prayer... He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray."
-Samuel Chadwick
"The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches."
-Vance Havner
"Nevertheless settle it firmly in our minds that sin is 'the abominable thing that God hateth' that God 'is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, and cannot look upon that which is evil.'
- J.C. Ryle
"The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God."
-Charles Stanley
"If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ."
-Leonard Ravenhill
"Many deceptions only appeal to us because there is something inside us that "wants" to believe them. They are seductive because of darkness and wrong motives in our own lives. We must search our hearts and root these out."
-Andrew Strom
"As Christ has a Gospel, Satan has a gospel too; the latter being a clever counterfeit of the former. So closely does the gospel of Satan resemble that which it parades, multitudes of the unsaved are deceived by it."
-A.W. Pink
"If you have been touched or involved in any way with manifestations or experiences that you think may not have been from God, then I urge you to utterly RENOUNCE (with your mouth, but also from the depths of your very being in Jesus' name) any links or involve-ment with that experience or 'anointing'."
-Andrew Strom
"How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?"
- Leonard Ravenhill
"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
"If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease?"
- Leonard Ravenhill
"When God breaks into a life or a community, nothing else matters save the person of Jesus, the glory of Jesus, the name of Jesus."
- Stephen Olford
"True revival is that divine moment when God bursts upon the scene and displays his glory."
- Del Fehsenfeld Jr.
"The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer."
-William Gurnall
"Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross."
- George Whitefield
"Israel prevailed with God in wrestling with Him... If so be that we will wrestle with God for a blessing, and prevail with Him, then we need not to fear"
-Alexander Henderson
"I had rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous."
-Thomas Lye
"To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth."
-Charles Spurgeon
"He is ever the Rewarder of those who 'diligently seek Him.' not the mere casual inquirer."
-Al Whittinghill
"Without the heartbeat of prayer, the body of Christ will resemble a corpse. The church is dying on her feet because she is not living on her knees."
-Al Whittinghill
"Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness.."
-A.W. Tozer
"The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory."
- Richard Sibbes
"Let us use worldly things as wise pilgrims do their staves and other necessaries convenient for their journey. So long as they help us forward in our way, let us make use of them, and accordingly esteem them. But if they become troublesome hindrances and cumbersome burdens, let us leave them behind us, or cast them away."
-George Downame
"It does not appear that these extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost were common in the Church for more than two or three centuries. We seldom hear of them after that fatal period when the Emperor Constantine called himself a Christian;...From this time they almost totally ceased;...The Christians had no more of the Spirit of Christ than the other heathens....This was the real cause why the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost were no longer to be found in the Christian Church; because the Christians were turned Heathens again, and had only a dead form left."
- John Wesley
"God did not save us to make us happy, He saved us to make us holy."
- Dr. Jerry Benjamin
"The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right."
-David Wilkerson
"It doesn't have to be a barrage of information to lead a soul to Christ. Sometimes you just have to speak their name."
- Carter Conlon
"The Holy Spirit did not come to make them of one accord, He came because they were of one accord...
It is not the music that tunes your piano, it's the tuned piano that makes your music."
- A.W. Tozer
"Do not let us imagine that we can take into our fellowship and enlist under one banner men who simply affirm truth about Jesus, unless in their own lives there is an absolute loyalty to the Lord Christ."
- G. Campbell Morgan
"The world doesn´t believe the Bible, Christians don´t obey the Bible."
- Leonard Ravenhill
"Men will allow God to be everywhere except on His throne!"
-C.H. Spurgeon
"...We want Him as long as He doesn't change what we like. But any person not open to change is NOT open to revival."
-Al Whittinghill
"It is far better to drive men away by faithful preaching than to drive the Holy Spirit away by unfaithful preaching!"
-Al Whittinghill
"Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hyprocrites and heretics ceases.. and all things are in peace. This is a sure token that the devil is guarding the entry to the house, and that the PURE doctrine of God's Word has been taken away. The Church then, is in the BEST state, when Satan assaileth it on every side...both with subtle sleights, and outright violence. And likewise it is in the WORST state when it is most at peace!"
-Martin Luther
"Revival will come only to a desperate church, not a contented one. He is ever the Rewarder of those who 'diligently seek Him.' not the mere casual inquirer."
-Al Whittinghill
"Most Americans worship their work, work at their play, and play at their worship."
-Al Whittinghill"
"Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church. Each generation of Christians is the seed of the next, and degenerate seed is sure to produce a degenerate harvest."
-A.W. Tozer
"Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness. So do not seek to hide from it. Do not accept an easy way. Do not allow yourself to be patted to sleep in a comfortable church, void of power and barren of fruit. Do not paint the cross nor deck it with flowers. Take it for what it is, as it is, and you will find it the rugged way to death and life. Let it slay you utterly."
-A.W. Tozer
"I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion."
- A.W. Tozer
"We end up blaming God's sovereignty for the sad state of the church. If there is no revival in the church, we can be very sure that the lack is on our part and not God's!"
-Al Whittinghill
"A real Christian is an odd number, anyway. He feels supreme love for the One whom he has never seen; talks with familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see; expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another; empties himself in order to be full; admits he is wrong so he can be declared right; goes down in order to get up; is strongest when he is weakest; richest when he is poorest and happiest when he feels the worst. He dies so he can live; forsakes in order to have; gives away so he can keep; sees the invisible; hears the inaudible' and knows that which passeth understanding."
- A.W. Tozer
"You know, people say that today. 'Oh, I am just a saved sinner.' That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is like saying you are an honest thief... You are either saved or you are a sinner."
-Leonard Ravenhill
"Though there are some tearful intercessors behind the scenes, I grant you that to our modern Christianity, praying is foreign."
- Leonard Ravenhill
"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
"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
"An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction."
- Thomas Brooks
"If we refuse to prescribe to the Christ honored methods of humility and prayer, we will certainly be refused for the Master's use in the coming revival."
- David Smithers
"Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results."
-E.M. Bounds
"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"
"I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again"
-Richard Wurmbrand
"God never denied that soul anything that went as far as heaven to ask for it."
- John Trapp
"It has often been said that prayer is the greatest force in the universe. This is no exaggeration. It will bear constant repetition. In this atomic age when forces are being released that stagger the thought and imagination of man, it is well to remember that prayer transcends all other forces."
- F. J. Huegel
"They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls."
- Adam Clarke
"We need more men like John Knox in pulpits today; men who know the truth and are willing to risk their lives for it if need be."
-D.R. Brooker
"It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won."
- J. H. Jowett
"Christ was in an agony at prayer (Luke 22: 44). Many when they pray are rather in a lethargy, than in an agony. When they are about the world they are all fire; when they are at prayer, they are all Ice."
- Thomas Watson
"I have never known a person sweat blood; but I have known a person pray till the blood started from his nose. And I have known persons to pray till they were all wet with perspiration, in the coldest weather in winter. I have known persons pray for hours, till their strength was all exhausted with the agony of their minds. Such prayers prevailed with God."
- Charles G. Finney
"He that leaves off prayer leaves off the fear of God."
- Thomas Watson
"Workers that are strangers to knee work may work up a temporary excitement, but never will be able to secure the copious outpourings of genuine revival power."
- Martin Wells Knapp
"God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the IMPOSSIBLE."
- William Booth.
"Depend upon it, if you are bent on prayer, the devil will not leave you alone. He will molest you, tantalize you, block you... What he minds, and opposes steadily, is the prayer that prays on until it is prayed through, assured of the answer."
- Mary Warburton Booth
"If we once get above our Bibles, and cease making the written Word of God sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion, and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith.'"
-George Whitefield
"God is not looking for brilliant men, is not depending upon eloquent men, is not shut up to the use of talented men in sending His Gospel out in the world. God is looking for the broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the Cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God."
-H.A. Ironside
"Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness. So do not seek to hide from it. Do not accept an easy
way. Do not allow yourself to be patted to sleep in a comfortable church, void of power and barren of fruit. Do not paint the cross nor deck it with flowers. Take it for what it is, as it is, and you will find it the rugged way to death and life. Let it slay you utterly."
-A.W. Tozer"
Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background."
-J.C. Ryle.
"Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted."
-J.C. Ryle.
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." --Martin Luther
"Peace if possible, truth at all costs." --Martin Luther
"God does not prosper a man's business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel. He prospers a business so that twelve percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation."
-John Piper.
"The devil's war is better then the devil's peace."
-Samuel Rutherford
"The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still."
- A. W. Tozer
"A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men."
- Leonard Ravenhill
"That, which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort."
- John Flavel
"Christ was in an agony at prayer (Luke 22: 44). Many when they
pray are rather in a lethargy, than in an agony. When they are
about the world they are all fire; when they are at prayer, they are
all Ice."
- Thomas Watson
"How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches
and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they
practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work
themselves."
- C.T. Studd
"The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power."
-Samuel Chadwick
"What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!"
- Thomas Brooks
"He that is down needs fear no fall; He that is low, no pride."
-John Bunyan
"A life spent in the service of God and in communion with him, is the most pleasant life that any one can live in the world."
- Matthew Henry
"Hell is larger today than it was yesterday, because many of us have failed to pray."
- David Smithers
"You know, people say that today. "Oh, I am just a saved sinner." That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is like saying you are an honest thief, or a pure harlot. You can´t be a saved sinner. You are either saved or you are a sinner. He came. "Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins."
-Leonard Ravenhill
"You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness."
-Leonard Ravenhill
"Friend, you will never stumble as long as you are on your knees!"
-Raymond Beasley
"You say to me; 'Oh brother, we are "in the world" [and not of it]' Sure you are, but you don't have to pump it into your living room!! Garbage in, Garbage out !!!"
- Paul Washer
"Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin."
- A. W. Tozer
"At any point in all of Eternity, we can say, 'This is just the beginning.' How wonderful for those who are with Christ. How unimaginably dreadful for those who are not."
- Leonard Ravenhill
"People take salvation today in such a cold, formal, matter-of-fact, business-like sort of way, that it appears as though they are doing God an honor in condescending to receive His offer of Redemption. Their eyes are dry, their sense of sin absent; nor is there any sign of penitence and contrition... But oh, if there were conviction! if they came with hearts bowed down, yea! broken and contrite, came with the cry of the guilt-laden soul: "God be merciful to me a sinner!"--came trembling with the burning life and death question of the Philippian jailor: "What must I do to be saved ?"--what converts they would be!"
-Oswald J. Smith
"The Word of God is a looking glass, to show us our spots; and the blood of Christ is a fountain to wash them away."
-Thomas Watson
"Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly out of it without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Blessed Redeemer. At the very least, let us see to it that when the Devil gets news of our departure from the battlefield, he throws a thanksgiving party in Hell."
-C.T. Studd
"Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be a miracle."
- Phillips Brooks
"For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step."
- Thomas a' Kempis
"The doctrinal ignorance of the evangelical church is shocking."
- MacArthur
"The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard." - Andrew Murray
"A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution."
- E.M. Bounds
"Let me never become a slave to crowds."
- A.W. Tozer
"The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world."
- G. Campbell Morgan
"A hundred years ago they read less about the Bible and more out of the old Book itself!"
- Charles L. Goodell
"At any point in all of Eternity, we can say, 'This is just the beginning.' How wonderful for those who are with Christ. How unimaginably dreadful for those who are not."
- Leonard Ravenhill
"He frequently emphasized the fact that anything which is not Christ in resurrection is not the church."
-Watchman Nee
"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
"The gospel is not suited, and cannot be made to suit, the corrupt dispositions and inclinations of the carnal mind."
-Robert Hall
"It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience."
-Thomas Brooks
"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."
- George Whitefield
"The 'flesh' is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified."
-Watchman Nee
"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"
- Corrie Ten Boom
"You had better be a poor man and a rich Christian, than a rich man and a poor Christian. You had better do anything, bear anything, and be anything rather than be a dwarf in grace."
- Thomas Brooks
"God sees us in secret, therefore, let us seek his face in secret."
- Thomas Brooks
"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
"Many people in the world have not rejected Christ. They have rejected the Christ they've seen, projected by Christendom."
-Zac Poonen
"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."
-Zac Poonen
"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 he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest, and strongest Christian."
- Anonymous
"What will it cost me for God to break my heart? It will cost you absolutely everything."
-Gerhard DuToit
"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
"You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience"
- Edwin Louis Cole
"Peace is the umpire for knowing the will of God."
- Ed Cole
"Be ready to cut off everything that would hinder, and cast it from you. Be ready and willing to suffer the loss of possessions, of friends, of health - of all things on earth - so you may enter into the kingdom of heaven."
- John Wesley
"When a prophet is accepted and deified, his message is lost. The prophet is only useful so long as he is stoned as a public nuisance calling us to repentance, disturbing our comfortable routines, breaking our respectable idols, shattering our sacred conventions."
-A. G. Gardiner.
"The function of the Prophet has almost invariably been that of recovery... for obvious reasons, the people were not disposed to go the costly way of God's full purpose, the Prophet was usually an unpopular person."
-T. Austin Sparks
"Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. 'You troubler of Israel' was the way Ahab addressed Elijah."
-Arthur Wallis.
"The one concern of the devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray."
-Samuel Chadwick
"It was not John Hyde: it was the Holy Spirit of God whom one consecrated man, filled with that Spirit, brought down upon all around him. May we not all become 'Praying Hydes?' "
- Anonymous
"We rush unthinkingly and unpreparedly into God's presence, without realizing the majesty and glory of the God whom we are approaching, and without reflecting upon the exceeding great riches of his glory in Christ Jesus, which we hope to draw upon? We must 'think magnificently of God.' "
- Anonymous
"You dedicate and then God consecrates."
- Keith Daniel
"The history of God's specific movements with the Church is not the history of His adding something, but of His bringing back to the primal fullness with which He filled His Son."
-T. Austin Sparks
"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
"A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant."
- Stephen Charnock
"No man is ever fully accepted until he has, first of all, been utterly rejected."
- Unknown
"We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too."
-John Calvin
"The secret of following God's will is wrapped in rejecting the good for God's best."
- K.P. Yohannan
"There is nothing little in God."
-C.H. Spurgeon
"I love to live on the brink of eternity."
-David Brainerd
"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"
-Corrie Ten Boom
"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 Paradise."
- Thomas Brooks
"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: "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.
"I'm not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on 'how to cope' to a multitude of people who are dying and going to hell. I tremble at the thought."
- David Wilkerson
"Speak every time my dear brother as if it were your last..."
- George Whitefield
"Some of the greatest satanic activity in the end times will take place in the pulpit." - Dwight Pentecost
"We must go back to the doctrines. I fear that the new generation does not know the doctrines as our fathers knew them."
-John A. Broadus
"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car."
-Laurence J. Peter
"If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power."
- Billy Sunday
"Satan dreads nothing but prayer... He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray."
-Samuel Chadwick
"The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches."
-Vance Havner
"Nevertheless settle it firmly in our minds that sin is 'the abominable thing that God hateth' that God 'is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, and cannot look upon that which is evil.'
- J.C. Ryle
GREAT QUOTES FROM SMITH WIGGLESWORTH
"I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be ordinary."
"God wants His people to be ablaze with Holy Ghost activity."
"If it is in the Bible, it is so. It's not even to be prayed about. It's to be received and acted upon. Inactivity is a robber which steals blessings. Increase comes by action, by using what we have and know. Your life must be one of going on from faith to faith."
"Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing binding him."
"Purity is vital to faith."
"Shout, 'Get thee behind me, Satan,,,' and you will have the best time on earth. Whisper it, and you won't."
"On reading Romans 8, 'you will be sin-proof and devil proof'."
"I am on the plan of daring, acting in the Holy Ghost."
"God wants His people to be ablaze with Holy Ghost activity."
"If it is in the Bible, it is so. It's not even to be prayed about. It's to be received and acted upon. Inactivity is a robber which steals blessings. Increase comes by action, by using what we have and know. Your life must be one of going on from faith to faith."
"Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing binding him."
"Purity is vital to faith."
"Shout, 'Get thee behind me, Satan,,,' and you will have the best time on earth. Whisper it, and you won't."
"On reading Romans 8, 'you will be sin-proof and devil proof'."
"I am on the plan of daring, acting in the Holy Ghost."