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"Man
is the same today that he has always been. He is a rebel against God. He
may, in some generations, hide his rebellion a little more carefully
than at other times, but there is no change in his heart. The men who
builded the city against God back in the days of Babylon had the same
hatred as that which possessed the men who nailed the Lord Jesus Christ
to the cross."
~
Donald Grey
Barnhouse
"The Church is the gospel express train,
stopping at a few stations to pick up a few passengers, the train
"Israel" being side-tracked to let the express go by.
When Christ comes, the train "Israel" will be switched back up on the
main line, stop at all stations, and take on the world." ~
John
Wilkerson
"The first duty of the gospel preacher is
to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin." ~Martin
Luther
"Practically every false doctrine comes
from getting things out of order. God's divine order is salvation, then
change; not change and then salvation! If one has to be changed to be
saved, that's salvation by works. It is also salvation by the flesh. The
truth is, one is cleansed from the sins of the flesh just as he is
saved; by yielding to the Holy Spirit and letting Him do His work." ~Jack
Hyles
"Let's quit fiddling with religion and do
something to bring the world to
Christ." ~
Billy Sunday
"The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really
need
to see."
~G. Campbell Morgan
"It is a poor sermon that gives no
offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with
the preacher" ~George
whitefield
"It is a sad and shocking fact that many
religious people are in Hell."~John
R. Rice
[The Judgment of Revelation 20] "Includes
all the wicked dead from the days
of Cain down to the last apostate from millennial glory. There will not
be one there who has not passed through the article of death-- not one
there whose name has been set down in life's fair Book-- not one there
that shall not be
judged according to his own very deeds-- not one there who shall not
pass
from the dread of realities of the Great White Throne into everlasting
horrors
and inneffable torments of the Lake of Fire that burneth with fire and
brimstone. How awful! How terrible! How perfectly dreadful!" ~C.H.
Mackintosh
"It ill becomes the servant to seek to be
rich, and great, and honoured in that world where his Lord was poor, and
mean, and despised."
~George
Muller
"The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that
are walking with Jesus Christ." ~ D.L. Moody
"The only reason some of us are not exiled or thrown into prison is
simply because we do not preach as fervently and as sternly as did Paul,
John, Peter
and others. This modern "santa claus" religion that is sweeping country
today is not the religion Jesus taught and John practiced." ~Oliver
B. Greene
"We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have
a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but
few conversions; much machinery but few results." ~R.A.
Torrey
"We are profoundly convinced that...the
primary need of the hour is a return to New Testament first principles
and standards. Christian missions are no human undertaking, but a
supernatural and divine enterprise for which God has provided
supernatural power and leadership."
~Robert H. Glover
"If you have no joy, there's a leak in
your Christianity somewhere." ~
Billy Sunday
"Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument
afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first
of all into
harmony with Him.” ~Hudson
Taylor
"I prayed for Faith, and thought that some
day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But Faith did
not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, 'Now
Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God'. I had closed
my Bible, and prayed for Faith. I now opened my Bible, and began to
study, and Faith has been growing ever since. "
~D.L. Moody
"We have a God who delights in impossibilities." ~
Billy Sunday
"The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance
between your knees and the floor" ~Charles
Stanley
"The great reservoir of the power that belongs to God is His own Word –
the Bible. If we wish to make it ours, we must go to that Book. Yet
people abound in the Church who are praying for power and neglecting the
Bible. Men are longing to have power for bearing fruit in their own
lives and yet forget that
Jesus has said: "The seed is the Word of God" (Luke 8:11). ~R.A.
Torrey
"The scriptures are given not to increase our knowledge, but to change
our
lives." ~Dwight
L. Moody
"If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures
and never contrary to them." ~George
Muller
"Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all." ~Hudson
Taylor
"Great truths that are stumbling blocks to
the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the
confidence of the spiritual man is built."
~H. A. Ironside
"The Church is the dwelling place of God in the Person of the Holy
Ghost.
Where the Church thrives, people are blessed and progress is evident.
Where there is no Church, people feed their babies to crocodiles and
roam naked in the jungles."
~Oliver B. Greene
"A poor believer [monetarily] certainly is
looked down upon in certain churches, and yet he may be the richest man
spiritually in that church." ~J.
Vernon McGee
"...you
cannot live by sight and by faith, neither can you live by fear and by
faith. It either has to be by faith or by fear, by faith or by sight.
Which way are you living? Faith takes out the anxiety It takes out the
fear. Faith leans heavy on the Lord. It knows that the Bible is so and
can be trusted and that we can live by it and all of our needs will be
supplied."
~Lester Roloff
"What a lowering of the life of faith it
is to confine it to the question of temporal supplies! No doubt it is a
very blessed and a very real thing to trust God for everything; but the
life of faith has a far higher and wider range than mere bodily wants.
It embraces all that in any wise concerns us, in body, soul, and spirit.
To live by faith is to walk with God; to cling to Him; to lean on Him;
to draw from His exhaustless springs; to find ad our resources in Him;
and to have Him as a perfect covering for our eyes and a satisfying
object for our hearts--to know Him as our only resource in all
difficulties, and in all our trials. It is to be absolutely, completely,
and continually shut up to Him; to be undividedly dependent upon Him,
apart from and above every creature confidence, every human hope, and
every earthly expectation. Such is the life of faith." ~
C.H. Mackintosh
"When kingdoms have crumbled for the last time, His mercy endureth
forever. When dictators have waged their wicked battles for the last
time, His mercy endureth forever. When the stars have fallen like
untimely figs from a tree shaken by the wind, His mercy endureth
forever. When the sun refuses to
shine and the moon has turned as black as sackcloth of hair, His mercy
endureth forever. When people shall die no more and cemeteries shall not
dot the horizon, His mercy endureth forever. When shoulders shall never
stoop, nor brows wrinkle, nor faces become furrowed, His mercy endureth
forever. When all of
us awake in His likeness to live forever around His throne, His mercy
endureth forever. Blessed be God! His mercy endureth forever!" ~
Jack
Hyles
"Godliness
has 'promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.'
But the only way one can enter into godliness is by turning to God as a
repentant sinner and receiving the Saviour He has provided in the
Gospel. Therefore the crying need of our degenerate times is for a
revival of true old-fashioned, Christ-centered, Bible preaching that
will call upon all men everywhere to repent in view of that coming day
when God will judge the world in righteousness by His Risen Son." ~Harry
A. Ironside
"The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our
emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin." ~Lester
Roloff
"Nothing is more needed among preachers
today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from
the thousand and one trivialities in which we are asked to waste our
time and strength, and resolutely return to the apostolic ideal which
made necessary the office of the diaconate. We must resolve that we will
continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the Word." ~G.
Campbell Morgan
"The heart makes the preacher. Men of great hearts are great preachers.
. .
We have emphasized sermon-preparation until we have lost sight of the
important thing to be prepared -- the heart. A prepared heart is much
better
than a prepared sermon. A prepared heart will make a prepared
sermon...It would not do to say that preachers study too much. Some of
them do not study at all; others do not study enough. Numbers do not
study the right way to show themselves workmen approved of God. But our
great lack is not in head culture, but in heart culture; not lack of
knowledge but lack of holiness is our sad and telling defect -- not that
we know too much, but that we do not meditate on
God and his word and watch and fast and pray enough. The heart is the
great hindrance to our preaching. . .
" ~E.M. Bounds
"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
"It is not enough to do God's work; it must be done in His way and for
His credit." ~
Erwin Lutzer
"We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their
living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we
have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline has
disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the
musician’s instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not
‘disciplined?’" ~ A.W. Tozer
"We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die
martyrs."
~
George Whitefield
"When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been
mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I
was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has
revealed to me."
~
John Wesley
"To the lover of the Lord Jesus Christ there can be nothing legal about
baptism. It is simply the glad expression of a grateful heart
recognizing its identity with Christ in death, burial, and resurrection.
Many of us look back to the moment when we were thus baptized as one of
the most precious experiences we have ever known." ~ Harry A.
Ironside
“Out of one hundred men, one will read the Bible, the other ninety-nine
will read the Christian.” ~
D. L. Moody
"The greatest privilege of earthly life is
to give some fellow creature the blessed word of God, and then try by
loving speech and example, to bring home to the heart and
conscience...the truths it contains." ~J. A. Broadus
"May we all be in such a condition of
soul, such an attitude of heart as will fit us for any little work in
which our gracious Lord may be pleased to use us — not seeking a place
for ourselves, but lovingly serving all. The Lord, in His great mercy,
grant that thus it may be, with all His beloved people!" ~C.H.
Mackintosh
Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most
vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all
vocations.
~
Edward M. Bounds
“In our prayers, we talk to God, in our
Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the
talking.” ~ D.L. Moody
[Regarding
Hearing From God]..."Retire from the world
each day to some private spot. Stay in the secret place till the
surrounding noises begin to fade out of your heart and a sense of God’s
presence envelops you. Deliberately tune out the unpleasant sounds and
come out of your closet determined not to hear them. Listen for the
inward voice till you learn to recognize it." ~A.W.
Tozer
"Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought
not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my
foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our fellowship is with God, and
fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which,
on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness." ~G.
Campbell Morgan
“Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.” ~
Charles H. Spurgeon
"When you have been saved, regenerated, born again, then join a church-a
live church. Join where the preacher loves the Word of God and the souls
of men. Keep out of these ecclesiastical deep freezers. A deep freeze is
all right for a
dead chicken or a chunk of cheese or a leg of lamb, but it is no place
for a live baby. A baby must be fed and nourished and given a chance to
exercise,
vocalize and grow. It couldn't do that in a refrigerator." ~
Walter Hughes
"People are so prone to lean upon gifted
men. And if they cannot have such,
they get discouraged and scattered, instead of getting lovingly together
and helping one another by their mutual faith." ~C.H.
Mackintosh
"I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on
this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans." ~John
Wesley
"A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the
blockade in the road and what his attitude is after everything has left
him except Jesus. You will never know down here that Christ is all you
need until Christ is all you have left. You will never be able to tell
the world for sure that He will do in a crisis unless you learn how to
live in a crisis."
~Lester Roloff
"Prayer is no little thing, no selfish and small matter. It does not
concern the petty interests of one person. The littlest prayer broadens
out by the will of God till it touches all words, conserves all
interests, and enhances man’s greatest wealth, and God’s greatest good.
God is so concerned that men pray that He has promised to answer prayer.
He has not promised to do something general if we pray, but He has
promised to do the very thing for which we pray."
~Edward M. Bounds
"To the individual believer indwelt by the
Holy Spirit there is granted the direct impression of the Spirit of God
on the spirit of man, imparting the knowledge of His will in matters of
the smallest and greatest importance. This has to be sought and waited
for." ~G.
Campbell Morgan
“I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth;
I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever
commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet,
or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition
in life is to win as many as possible.”
~
R. A. Torrey
"Beware you be not swallowed up in [worldly] books." ~John
Wesley
The Bible is the inerrant Word of God. Its sixty six books are not a
collection of religious writings, advancing certain theories, but they
constitute one body, breathing with life and power. From the first verse
in Genesis to the last verse in Revelation there is a wonderful
continuity of thought, without any clash of opinion; all is a harmonious
whole. This fact necessitates one great Author, One who guided the
thoughts of each writer and who is instructed them to write as they did.
This guiding and supervising Author is the Spirit of God."... 2Timothy
3:16, 2 Peter 1:21 ~
Arno C. Gaebelein
"Faith is to rest, not in the best of
God's servants, but in His unchanging Word."
~
H. A. Ironside
"Nothing can touch the Word of God. Not all the powers of earth and
hell, men and devils combined, can ever move the Word of God. There it
stands, in its own moral glory, spite of all the assaults of the enemy,
from age to age. ‘For ever, 0 Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven.’"
~C.H. Mackintosh
"People are stumbling over the simplest
things. Take, for instance, that word believeth. You would think that
was plain enough for anybody, but all my life I have heard people say,
'I have always believed, and yet I am not saved.' It does not say,
'Whosoever believeth the Bible, or creeds, or even the gospel story,'
but it does say, 'Whosoever believeth in him.' What is it to believe in
Him? It means to put your soul's confidence in Him, to trust in Him,
God's blessed Son."
~H.A. Ironside
[Jesus] ..."He
was born a King.
The wise men came from the East and asked, 'Where is He that is born
King of the Jews?' (Matthew 2:2). He died
a King.
In Greek, in Latin, and in Hebrew the description was written above His
cross, 'This is Jesus, The King' (Matthew 27:37)"
~W.A. Criswell
"I find no fault in Him."...You can find fault in anyone else, but you
can find
no fault in Jesus.
Holy, harmless, undefiled, sinless: there
He is!
Christ is God's way to man; Christ is
man's way to God. Christ is the true Jacob's ladder.
By Him
the penitent sinner, the believing soul, the redeemed child of God may
come unto the Father and enter into the house of many mansions."
~George W. Truett
"When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's
cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him. He settled for
everything, and then He cried, 'It is finished.' And on the basis of
that finished work, God can freely forgive, and justify completely,
every poor sinner who trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ."
~ Dr. Harry
A. Ironside
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