Better to 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
A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he has made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
- Thomas Brooks
More than 2 billion people who do not know Jesus head toward hell to perish for eternity, while the professing church laughs its way to hysteria, claiming this is the sign of the last days´ outpouring of the HolySpirit...My brothers and sisters, this is not Christianity.
- K.P. Yohannan
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." John 14:15. 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
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.
- Steve Green
Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing ofspiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.
- E.M. Bounds
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.
- A. Reavis
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 into paradise.
- Thomas Brooks
The only way to avoid a shot from a cannon is to fall down. And the only way to avoid temptation is to keep low.
- Thomas Brooks
Improve the present moment! Why delay? Why wait until tomorrow when you have today?
- Unkown
To be in the will of God is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of the heart.
- Oswald Chambers
The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. The more I study the writings of the new school of theological teachers, the more I marvel that men and women can be satisfied with such writings. There is a vagueness, a mistiness, a shallowness, an indistinctness, a superficiality, an aimlessness and a hollowness about all the literature of the 'broader and kinder systems', as they are called, which to my mind, stamps their origin on their face. They are of the earth, earthly.
- J. C. Ryle
I'm not about to put on 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
If you are a stranger to prayer, then you are a stranger to God's power.
- Billy Sunday
Satan dreads nothing but prayer. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil and mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
- Samuel Chadwick
The devil is not fighting churches today--he's joining them.
- Vance Havner
We want more men and women who walk with God and walk before God, like Enoch and Abraham.
- J. C. Ryle
I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there has never been so much profession of religion without practice, so much talking about God without walking with God, or so much hearing God's words without obeying them.
- J. C. Ryle
To be in God's will is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart; it's motto is "My Father can do what He likes with me--He may bless me abundantly or give me a bitter cup, but I delight to do His will."
- Oswald Chambers
In the Scriptures, there is a portrait of God, but in Christ there is God Himself. A coin bears the image of Caesar, but Caesar's son is his own lively resemblance. Christ is the living Bible.
- Thomas Manton
We shall have eternity in which to celebrate our victories, but we only have one swift hour before sunset to win them.
- Anonymous
Read the Diary and Life of Andrew Bonar--it will be a spiritual feast and refreshing for any Christian, especially for preachers. Bonar's life and writings breathe the atmosphere of heaven.
- Mack Tomlinson
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
- John Bunyan
God requires to be represented by a fiery Church. Twothings are intolerable to Him--insincerity and lukewarmness.
- E.M. Bounds
True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.
-Thomas Brooks
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
- Jonathan Edwards
A man is what he is on his knees before God, and nothing more.
- Robert Murray M'Cheyne
The more we pay for any truth, the better is our bargain.
- William Law
Prayer is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man's true spiritual condition. Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I have only one candle of life to burn and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.
- John Falconer
We are not to be moved by what we see or by what we feel, but rather are to be moved only by the truth.
- Anonymous
If the Lord tarries, there may yet be a grass-roots awakening that will overflow all sectarian barriers. There are a host of good people who long for a visitation from heaven in old-time power. The kindling wood is scattered all around in all the churches. May God help us to rake off the ashes, uncover the live coals, and may He blow upon us with the breath of His Spirit.
- Vance Havner
I would say without any hesitation that the most urgent need in the Christian church today is true preaching.
- D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
When a preacher is called from God, his sermon will be like a baptism of truth.
- Howard Spring
The evangelist who preaches for eternity is never big on numbers. He will not be able to count hundreds of converts where there is no restitution and no real confession of sin.
- E. M. Bounds
When the gospel was preached in the first ages of the church, it was revealed to the hearts and consciences of sinner with great power and they did not put off their repentance even for one day.
- Thomas Reade
No one can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.
- C. H. Spurgeon
A boy in the streets, selling mince pies, kept crying, "Hot mince pies!" A person bought one and found it quite cold. "Boy", he said, "why do you call these pies hot?" "That's the name they go by, sir," said the boy. So there are plenty of people who are called Christians, but they are not Christians--that's simply the name they go by.
- C. H. Spurgeon
I couldn't say that my church is alive, but I wouldn't want to call it dead. I guess it's just walking in its sleep.
- anonymous church member
The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.
- Elisabeth Elliot
I have prayed for new men, fiery reckless men, possessed of uncontrollable passions lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words which are explosive, direct, and simple. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, and hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long.
- Jim Elliot
A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.
- A.W. Tozer
Are not our prayers so often ineffective, powerless and sometimes even prayerlessbecause we rush unthinkingly and unpreparedly into God's presence, without realizing the majesty and glory of the God whom we are approaching? We must think magnificently of God.
- Unknown
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." John 14:15.
- Unknown
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 in Christ and how unimaginably dreadful for those who are not.
- Leonard Ravenhill
People approach salvation today in such a cold, formal and business-like sort of way, that it appears as though they are doing God a favor in condescending to receive His offer of redemption. Their eyes are dry, their sense of sin is absent, and there is no sign of repentance and contrition. But if there was conviction, if they came with hearts bowed down, with brokenness and contrition, and came trembling with the burning life and death question of the Philippian jailor--"What must I do to be saved?"--then what kind of 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 will throw a thanksgiving party in hell.
- C. T. Studd