 One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Christ |
| Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Fear |
| God has His spiritual splints that He wants to put upon His children and keep them quiet and unmoved until they pass the first stage of faith. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Faith |
| The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God, give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost! Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Church, Holy Spirit, Compromise |
| We must pass by the good, moral man, and seek the outcast. We must pass by those who, we think, would make the best members of the Church, and go with our invitation to the very refuse of Society. Sad to say, we must. sometimes pass by our very children while we go out after others not related to us by fleshly ties. Author: A.C. Dixon
Topics: Evangelism |
| We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed! Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Prayer |
| The Word of God can grow to be only a hunting-ground for texts; and we can preach, meaning intensely every word we utter, and yet in reality only lost for the moment like an actor in his part, or at least leaving it to the folk to live it out; for us, bless me, we have no time for that, but are already immersed, poor harried souls, in determining what we shall preach on next. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Preaching |
| Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God's presence. It is vain to say, "I have too much work to do to find time." You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Prayer, Time |
| It's true that (many) are praying for a worldwide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for prayer to be made to the Lord of the harvest, that He would raise up and thrust forth laborers who would fearlessly and faithfully preach those truths which are calculated to bring about a revival. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Preaching, Revival |
| If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch? Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Faith |
| He remembers our frame and knows that we are dust. He may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is. Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Chastisement |
| I wonder if there was ever a time when true spiritual worship was at a lower ebb. To great sections of the church, the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the "program." This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the public service which now passes for worship among us. Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Worship |
| No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be. Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Happiness, Holiness |
| The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God... Our religion is weak because our God is weak... Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending on her concept of God. Author: A.W. Tozer
Source: The Attributes of God: a Journey into the Father's Heart.
Topics: Christianity |
| The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord's own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else. Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Apathy |
| The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and did it. Their people followed them - sometimes to triumph, oftener to insults and public persecution - and their sufficient reward was the satisfaction of being right in a wrong world! Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Obedience, Rewards |
| What I am anxious to see in Christian believers is a beautiful paradox. I want to see in them the joy of finding God while at the same time they are blessedly pursuing Him. I want to see in them the great joy of having God yet always wanting Him. Author: A.W. Tozer
Source: Men Who Met God, Christianity Today, v. 31, n. 1.
Topics: Christians |
| What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them. We must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Struggles, Patience |
| God sometimes doth not mind his children when they cry, that they may hereby take occasion to remember how oft he hath cried and they have not minded him. Author: Abraham Wright
Topics: Trials |
| It is a great cause oftentimes why God blesseth not means, because we are so apt to trust in them, and rob God of his glory, not waiting for a blessing at his hands. Author: Abraham Wright
Topics: Finances |
| He came the first time to die; He is coming again to raise the dead. When He came the first time, they questioned whether He was King; the next time the world will know that He is King of kings and Lord of lords. The first time He wore a crown of thorns; the next time He will be wearing a crown of glory. The first time He came in poverty; the next time He is coming in power. The first time He had an escort of angels; the next time He will come with ten thousands of His saints. The first time He came in meekness; He is coming again in majesty. Author: Adrian Rogers
Topics: Jesus |
| I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life. I cannot tell you the indescribable joy that has come into my heart and my life. Author: Adrian Rogers
Topics: Suffering |
| It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like. Author: Adrian Rogers
Topics: Money |
| When are Christian folks going to remember that every time you call yourself a Christian, you invoke the name of God, and that if you then walk a walk that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, cast a vote that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, then you are taking the name of the Lord your God in vain? Author: Alan Keyes
Topics: Christians, Hypocrisy |
| The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime. Author: Alan Redpath
Topics: Salvation |
| When life has been well spent; when there is a conscience without reproach; when there is faith in the Saviour; when there is a well-founded hope of heaven, there can be nothing that should disquiet us. Author: Albert Barnes
Topics: Life |
| At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. Author: Albert Schweitzer
Topics: Friendship, Gratitude, Light |
| In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Author: Albert Schweitzer
Topics: Friendship, Fire, Thankfulness |
| Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too. Author: Albert Schweitzer
Topics: Kindness, Service |
| Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. Author: Albert Schweitzer
Topics: Friendship |
| Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always. Author: Albert Schweitzer
Topics: Truth, Time |
| Ah! If our likeness to God does not show itself in trifles, what is there left for it to show itself in? For our lives are all made up of trifles. The great things come three or four of them in the seventy years; the little ones every time the clock ticks. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Life |
| If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of eternal helps and material good. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Faith |
| It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one who will not only show, but be the Truth; who will not only point, but open and be the way; who will not only communicate thought, but give, because He is the Life. Not the rabbi's pulpit, nor the teacher's desk, still less the gilded chairs of earthly monarchs, least of all the tents of conquerors, are the throne of the true king. He rules from the cross. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Jesus |
| The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood; and they who, one by one, come to Jesus and meet Him alone, next find that they are come to the city of God "and to an innumerable company." Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Faith, Unity |
| Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do yon mean that they shall be for you? Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Eternity |
| Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true prayer, takes for more time by the clock than one man in a thousand thinks. Author: Alexander Whyte
Topics: Prayer |
| Habits of thought are not less tyrannical than other habits, and a time comes when return is impossible, even to the strongest will. Author: Alexandre Vinet
Topics: Habits |
| Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer. Author: Alexandre Vinet
Topics: Service, Suffering |
| Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise. Author: Alistair Begg
Topics: Preaching, Heresy |
| If I cannot hear "The sound of rain' long before the rain falls, and then go out to some hilltop of the Spirit, as near to my God as I can and have faith to wait there with my face between my knees, though six times or sixty times I am told "There is nothing', till at last there arises a little cloud out of the sea, then I know nothing of Calvary love. Author: Amy Carmichael
Topics: Holy Spirit, Faith |
| We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air, look up into the depths of the sky, or out upon the wideness of the sea, or on the strength of the hills that is His also; or, if bound in the body, go forth in the spirit; spirit is not bound. Give Him time and, as surely as dawn follows night, there will break upon the heart a sense of certainty that cannot be shaken. Author: Amy Carmichael
Topics: Trials, Truth |
| One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God. Author: Andrew Bonar
Topics: Prayer |
| Time spent in prayer will yield more than that given to work. Prayer alone gives work its worth and its success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do His work in us and through us. Let our chief work as God's messengers be intercession; in it we secure the presence and power of God to go with us. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Prayer, Intercession |
| Unless we are willing to pay the price, and sacrifice time and attention and what appear legitimate or necessary duties, for the sake of the heavenly gifts we need not look for a large experience of the power of the heavenly world in our work. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Gifts, Service |
| We need to realize that the Bible says to "test the spirits" and warns very strongly that the Last Days will be a time of "seducing spirits" and great deception. Author: Andrew Strom
Topics: Deception |
We are told in scripture that with God all things are possible. But Lewis states that this does not mean that God can do anything. God cannot, for example, answer nonsensical questions...He cannot do both of two mutually exclusive things; for example, He cannot create creatures with free will and at the same time withhold free will from them.
- Armand M. Nicholi Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: God, Scripture, Freedom |
Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.
- Benjamin Franklin Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: God, Prayer, Business |
We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism...To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!
- C.T. Studd Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Prayer, The Bible, Time |
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
- Charles Dickens Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Christmas |
The cross is a one time, visual representation of God's grief over sin.
- Dean H. Harvey Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Atonement, The Cross, Grief |
Those who please all men at all times ought deservedly to look on themselves with suspicion.
- Johann Albrecht Bengel Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Hypocrisy, Men |
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
- John Knox Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Examples |
Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grave, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
- Hugh Latimer Author: Assorted Authors
Source: Words Hugh Latimer to Nicholas Ridley as they were burned at the stake in Oxford.
Topics: Persecution, Light |
The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
- Hugh Latimer Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Perseverance |
Trees have their seasons at certain times of the year when they bring forth fruit; but a Christian is for all seasons.
- Ralph Brownrig Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Christians |
There will come a time when three words, uttered with charity and meekness, shall receive a far more blessed reward than three thousand volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit.
- Richard Hooker Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Charity, Rewards, Meekness |
Life is but one continual course of instruction, The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first faint characters which time deepens into strength so that nothing can efface them.
- Rowland Hill Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Education, Children, Parents |
The meek are not those who are never at all angry, for such are insensible; but those who, feeling anger, control it, and are angry only when they ought to be. Meekness excludes revenge, irritability, morbid sensitiveness, but not self-defence, or a quiet and steady maintenance of right.
- Theophylact Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Anger, Revenge, Meekness |
People nowadays take time far more seriously than eternity.
- Thomas Kelly Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Heaven |
| If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times. Author: Augustine
Topics: Life |
| What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. Author: Augustine
Topics: Philosophy, Time |
| Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee. Author: Augustine
Topics: God, Rest, Creation |
| At times one hesitates to reprove or admonish evil-doers, either because one seeks a more favorable moment or fears his rebuke might make them worse, and further, discourage weak brethren from seeking to lead a good and holy life, or turn them aside from the faith. In such circumstances forbearance is not prompted by selfish considerations but by well advised charity. Author: Augustine
Source: City of God
Topics: Apathy |
| It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God. Author: Austin Phelps
Topics: Holiness, Prayer |
| How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls! These are souls who have the power to bless, for they intercede with sanctified hearts. They never begin their daily time of intercessory prayer without having first brought to the cross all that is unholy in their lives, so that their old self can be crucified there with Jesus, the sacrificial Lamb. Author: Basilea Schlink
Topics: Intercession |
| The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. Author: Billy Graham
Topics: Romance |
| The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. Author: Billy Graham
Topics: Prayer, Sports |
| Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Repentance, Conversion, Surrender |
| I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Preaching |
| All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Life, Prayer |
| I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Humorous |
| Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Reasoning, Time |
| Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Change, Grief, Healing |
| To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Philosophy |
| Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Truth |
| Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Morality, Knowledge, Affliction |
| Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Kindness |
| We must do our business faithfully; without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to GOD mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from Him. Author: Brother Lawrence
Topics: Contentment, Business |
| One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the presence of God; and being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wanderings. Author: Brother Lawrence
Topics: Prayer |
| The time of business does not differ with me from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were on my knees. Author: Brother Lawrence
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God
Topics: Prayer, Business |
| The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter. In the meantime, she is to be a pilgrim body, passing through this scene, but abiding above. Author: C.I. Scofield
Topics: Persecution, Rewards |
| Christians, let us leave the government of the world till the King comes; let us leave the civilizing of the world to be the incidental effect of the presence there of the Gospel of Christ, and let us give our time, our strength, our money, our days to the mission distinctively committed to the Church, namely, to make the Lord Jesus Christ known "to every creature"! Author: C.I. Scofield
Topics: Government, Evangelism |
| We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: The Problem of Pain
Topics: Sin, Conscience |
| Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Sin, Time |
| The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Truth, Time |
| Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Good and Evil, Ignorance, Hatred |
| The difference God's timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: Letters (1 August 1949)
Topics: God, Eternity |
| The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Examples |
| Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth, you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Truth |
| Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Life, Eternity, Time |
| I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Happiness, Joy |
| Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Life, History, Men |
| Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Love, Friendship |
| When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right - something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise. It will be too late then to choose your side. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Eternity, Prophecy, Beauty |
| Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Contentment |
| In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Prayer, Jesus |
| The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Time, Grace |
| We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all." Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Attitude |
| When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion. Author: Charles Finney
Topics: Revival |
