REVIVAL QUOTES
To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.(William Temple)
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. (St. Augustine)
You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns in seasons of severe trial. The hypocrite flies to the world and finds a sort of comfort there. But the child of God runs to his Father and expects consolation only from the Lord’s hand. (Charles Spurgeon)
A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol. (R.C.Sproul)
Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God. (R.C.Sproul)
The safest place to be is within the will of God.
God's answers are wiser than our prayers.
Error does not become Truth because it is widely accepted;
Truth does not become error, even when it stands alone!
Humility is a paradox. The moment you think you've finally found it, you've lost it. There has yet to be written a book intitled, "Humility and How I Achieved It." And yet, God expects (and rewards) an attitude of servant-like humility in His followers.
Never get so busy doing the work of the kingdom that you forget who the King is.
God specializes in happy endings.
The Bible: More up-to-date than tomorrow’s newspaper!
You can no more outgrow your need for God than you can outgrow your need for oxygen.
The Hellbound sinner's famous last words: "I did it my way".
No one can ignore Jesus forever.
The outlook is gloomy, but the uplook is glorious!
Death is not extinguishing the light from the Christian; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself. M. R. DeHaan, M.D. (1891-1965) American Bible teacher
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car --Laurence J. Peter
Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ. -- Dr. H. A. Ironside (1876-1951)
All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.-- Dr. H. A. Ironside
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. -- Corrie Ten Boom
Faith ends where worry begins, and worry ends where faith begins.--George Mueller
A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted-- Adrian Rogers
God's work done God's way will never lack God's supply--Hudson Taylor
Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you--Corrie ten Boom
The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"--A.W. Tozer
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable--Vance Havner
God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves-- Dwight L. Moody
You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart--D.L. Moody
When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred--John R. Rice
And Satan trembles when he sees, The weakest saint upon his knees--William Cowper (1731-1800)
If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much--H. A. Ironside (1876-1951)
People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks:
1. they are facing only one direction,
2. they can never turn back, and
3. they no longer have plans of their own.
--A.W. Tozer
No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity. --H. A. Ironside
The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word.
--Bob Jones, Sr.
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
-- Daniel Webster
I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him.
I ended up by asking Him to do his work through me.
--James Hudson Taylor (1832-1905)- - English missionary and founder of the China Inland Mission.
We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!
--James Hudson Taylor
Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and
is coming back tomorrow.
--Theodore Epp
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
--Oscar Wilde
Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do. --James Hudson Taylor
Salvation is a work of God for man, rather than a work of man for God. --Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871-1952)
The Law and the Gospel are two keys. The Law is the key that shutteth up all men under condemnation, and the Gospel is the key which opens the door and lets them out.-- William Tyndale
Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way.
--John R. Rice
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
Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender. --A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?--Corrie Ten Boom
Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence--A.W. Tozer
Do you need help today? Lift up your hands to the Lord in supplication and in expectation, and soon you will lift up your hands in jubilation and celebration. --Warren W. Wiersbe
Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well--Reformer Martin Luther
QUOTES BY HELLEN KELLER
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
QUOTES BY KEITH GREEN - (1953-1982)
Going to Church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than going to McDonald's makes you a hamburger. It's time to quit playing church and start being the Church (Matt. 18:20).
I repent of ever having recorded one single song, and ever having performed one concert, if my music, and more importantly, my life has not provoked you into Godly jealousy or to sell out more completely to Jesus!
Going to Church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than going to McDonald's makes you a hamburger. It's time to quit playing church and start being the Church (Matt. 18:20).
I repent of ever having recorded one single song, and ever having performed one concert, if my music, and more importantly, my life has not provoked you into Godly jealousy or to sell out more completely to Jesus!
No Compromise is what the whole Gospel of Jesus is all about... 'For I tell you...no man can serve two masters...' (Matt. 6:24). In a day when believers seem to be trying to please both the world and the Lord (which is an impossible thing), when people are far more concerned about offending their friends than offending God, there is only one answer...Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him!
If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You’d be bored to tears in heaven, if you’re not ecstatic about God now!
The only music minister to whom the Lord will say, "Well done, thy good and faithful servant," is the one whose life proves what their lyrics are saying, and to whom music is the least important part of their life. Glorifying the only worthy One has to be a minister's most important goal!
SELECTED QUOTES BY DR. MARTYN LLOYD JONES
Avoid cleverness and smartness. The people will detect this, and they will get the impression that you are more interested in yourself and your cleverness than in the truth of God and their souls.
Holiness is not something we are called upon to do in order that we may become something; it is something we are to do because of what we already are.
Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.
There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.
There is something essentially wrong with a man who calls himself a Christian and who can listen to a truly evangelistic sermon without coming under conviction again, without feeling something of his own unworthiness, and rejoicing when he hears the Gospel remedy being presented.
We must not concentrate overmuch upon our feelings. Do not spend too much time feeling your own pulse taking your own spiritual temperature, do not spend too much time analyzing your feelings. That is the high road to morbidity.
A depressed Christian is a contradiction in terms, and he is a very poor recommendation for the gospel. Nothing is more important, therefore, than that we should be delivered from a condition which gives other people, looking at us, the impression that to be a Christian means to be unhappy, to be sad, to be morbid, and that the Christian is one who scorns delights and lives laborious days.
Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.
To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be "in Christ," it is for Christ to be in us
To dwell on the past simply causes failure in the present. While you are sitting down and bemoaning the past and regretting all the things you have not done, you are crippling yourself and preventing yourself from working in the present. Is that Christianity? Of course it is not.
Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success. So let me put it thus: Hold on to your principles of morality and ethics, use your willpower to the limit, pay great heed to every noble, uplifting desire that is in you; but realize that these things alone are not enough, that they will never bring you to the desired place. We have to realize that all our best is totally inadequate, that a spiritual battle must be fought in a spiritual manner.
Faith is this extraordinary principle which links man to God; faith is this thing that keeps a man from hell and puts him in heaven; it is the connection between this world and the world to come; faith is this mystic astounding thing that can take a man dead in trespasses and sins and make him live as a new being, a new man in Christ Jesus.
The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this always obey such an impulse.
Avoid cleverness and smartness. The people will detect this, and they will get the impression that you are more interested in yourself and your cleverness than in the truth of God and their souls.
Holiness is not something we are called upon to do in order that we may become something; it is something we are to do because of what we already are.
Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.
There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.
There is something essentially wrong with a man who calls himself a Christian and who can listen to a truly evangelistic sermon without coming under conviction again, without feeling something of his own unworthiness, and rejoicing when he hears the Gospel remedy being presented.
We must not concentrate overmuch upon our feelings. Do not spend too much time feeling your own pulse taking your own spiritual temperature, do not spend too much time analyzing your feelings. That is the high road to morbidity.
A depressed Christian is a contradiction in terms, and he is a very poor recommendation for the gospel. Nothing is more important, therefore, than that we should be delivered from a condition which gives other people, looking at us, the impression that to be a Christian means to be unhappy, to be sad, to be morbid, and that the Christian is one who scorns delights and lives laborious days.
Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.
To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be "in Christ," it is for Christ to be in us
To dwell on the past simply causes failure in the present. While you are sitting down and bemoaning the past and regretting all the things you have not done, you are crippling yourself and preventing yourself from working in the present. Is that Christianity? Of course it is not.
Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success. So let me put it thus: Hold on to your principles of morality and ethics, use your willpower to the limit, pay great heed to every noble, uplifting desire that is in you; but realize that these things alone are not enough, that they will never bring you to the desired place. We have to realize that all our best is totally inadequate, that a spiritual battle must be fought in a spiritual manner.
Faith is this extraordinary principle which links man to God; faith is this thing that keeps a man from hell and puts him in heaven; it is the connection between this world and the world to come; faith is this mystic astounding thing that can take a man dead in trespasses and sins and make him live as a new being, a new man in Christ Jesus.
The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this always obey such an impulse.
SELECTED QUOTES BY THOMAS A KEMPIS
He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love giveth sure access to God. But he who still delighteth in sin, no marvel if he is afraid of death and judgment.
He that seeketh anything else but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.
Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.
Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.
It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.
O Lord, you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done, as you please. Give what you will, how much you will, and when you will.
If thou desire to profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faithfulness; nor even desire the repute of learning.
It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.
Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience.
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied
Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.
The highest and most profitable learning is the knowledge of ourselves. To have a low opinion of our own merits, and to think highly of others, is an evidence of wisdom.
For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the cunning of doctors give consolation, nor riches deliver in time of need, nor a secret place to defend, if Thou, Lord, do not assist, help, comfort, counsel, inform, and defend.
In Jesus and for Him, enemies and friends alike are to be loved.
Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.
At the Day of Judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holy we have lived.
He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.
God walks with the humble; he reveals himself to the lowly; he gives understanding to the little ones; he discloses his meaning to pure minds, but hides his grace from the curious and the proud.
We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.
What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.
No man can ever lack this mortification of his vanity, that what he knows is but a very little in comparison of what he is ignorant of. Consider this, and instead of boasting thy knowledge of a few things, confess and be out of countenance for the many more which thou dost not understand.
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
He that well and rightly considereth his own works will find little cause to judge hardly of another.
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. Simplicity is in the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God; purity unites with and enjoys him
For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.
You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with.
Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this his banishment in the body, calling upon the holy name of Jesus, calleth to mind his native heavenly land, where his blessed Master, the King of saints and angels, waiteth to receive him. Blessed is the pilgrim who seeketh not an abiding place unto himself in this world; but longeth to be dissolved, and be with Christ in heaven.
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace - not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.
If you cannot mold yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.
He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love giveth sure access to God. But he who still delighteth in sin, no marvel if he is afraid of death and judgment.
He that seeketh anything else but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.
Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.
Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.
It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.
O Lord, you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done, as you please. Give what you will, how much you will, and when you will.
If thou desire to profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faithfulness; nor even desire the repute of learning.
It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.
Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience.
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied
Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.
The highest and most profitable learning is the knowledge of ourselves. To have a low opinion of our own merits, and to think highly of others, is an evidence of wisdom.
For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the cunning of doctors give consolation, nor riches deliver in time of need, nor a secret place to defend, if Thou, Lord, do not assist, help, comfort, counsel, inform, and defend.
In Jesus and for Him, enemies and friends alike are to be loved.
Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.
At the Day of Judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holy we have lived.
He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.
God walks with the humble; he reveals himself to the lowly; he gives understanding to the little ones; he discloses his meaning to pure minds, but hides his grace from the curious and the proud.
We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.
What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.
No man can ever lack this mortification of his vanity, that what he knows is but a very little in comparison of what he is ignorant of. Consider this, and instead of boasting thy knowledge of a few things, confess and be out of countenance for the many more which thou dost not understand.
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
He that well and rightly considereth his own works will find little cause to judge hardly of another.
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. Simplicity is in the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God; purity unites with and enjoys him
For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.
You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with.
Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this his banishment in the body, calling upon the holy name of Jesus, calleth to mind his native heavenly land, where his blessed Master, the King of saints and angels, waiteth to receive him. Blessed is the pilgrim who seeketh not an abiding place unto himself in this world; but longeth to be dissolved, and be with Christ in heaven.
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace - not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.
If you cannot mold yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.
