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Found 78 quotes matching your search:  The supreme test of service is this: For whom am I doing this? Much that we call service to Christ is not such at all....If we are doing this for Christ, we shall not care for human reward or even recognition. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Service, Rewards | | If any occupation or association is found to hinder our communion with God or our enjoyment of spiritual things, then it must be abandoned. Anything in my habits or ways which mars happy fellowship with the brethren or robs me of power in service, is to be unsparingly judged and made an end of-- 'burned.' Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Work, Habits | | 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 | | 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 | | Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God. Author: Abraham Kuyper
Topics: Life | | I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they're counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they've never been born again. Author: Adrian Rogers
Topics: Hell, Religion, Self-righteousness | |
| | The enemy uses all his power to lead the Christian, and above all the minister, to neglect prayer. He knows that however admirable the sermon may be, however attractive the service, however faithful the pastoral visitation, none of these things can damage him or his kingdom if prayer is neglected. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Satan, Prayer | | There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Revival, Consecration | I never was without without some religious principles. I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that He made the world, and governed it by His Providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter.
- Benjamin Franklin Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Eternity, Providence, Rewards | In the Kingdom of God, service is not a stepping-stone to nobility: it is nobility, the only kind of nobility that is recognized.
- T. W. Manson Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Service | | The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. Author: Billy Graham
Topics: Worship, Service | | Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the devil, and then blowing the smoke into the face of God. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Death | | To worship God in truth is further to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself if we desire it. Who will be so imprudent as to turn himself away, even for a moment, from the reverence, love, service and continual adoration which we most justly owe Him? Author: Brother Lawrence
Topics: Worship | | God's purpose in promising to reward with heavenly and eternal honors the faithful service of His saints is to win them from the pursuit of earthly riches and pleasures, to sustain them in the fires of persecution, and to encourage them in the exercise of Christian virtues. Author: C.I. Scofield
Topics: Persecution, Virtue, Rewards | | The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Church | | A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God. Author: Charles H. Brent
Topics: Prayer, Service | | The Scriptures teach that the happiness or blessedness of believers in a future life will be greater or less in proportion to the service of Christ in this life. Those who love little, do little; and those who do little, enjoy less. Author: Charles Hodge
Topics: Service | | Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Service, Time | | When Andrew went to find his brother, he little imagined how eminent Simon would become. You may be very deficient in talent yourself, and yet you may be the means of drawing to Christ one who shall become eminent in grace and service. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Evangelism, Grace, Service | | If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: The Treasury of David, Commentary for Psalm 119:17.
Topics: Service | | In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Giving | | My deacons know well enough how, when I first preached in Exeter Hall, there was scarcely ever an occasion in which they left me alone for ten minutes before the service, but they would find me in a most fearful state of sickness, produced by that tremendous thought of my solemn responsibility. I am compelled to put my responsibilities where I put my sins, on the back of the Lord Jesus Christ. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: 48.619.
Topics: Responsibility | | The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world. Author: Chuck Colson
Topics: Church, Service | | We cannot all go to the foreign field. We must express our interest in those who have not had our opportunities by our gifts. Much of the service we render in our own land must be rendered in the same way. But when that is said, the fact still remains that there is nothing that will take the place of our hand-to-hand dealing with those who need us. We cannot perform all our charities by proxy. We must come in personal contact with those whom we would help. Author: Clovis G. Chappell
Topics: Missions, Charity | | A good many are kept out of the service of Christ, deprived of the luxury of working for God, because they are trying to do some great thing. Let us be willing to do little things. And let us remember that nothing is small in which God is the source. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Service | | He came to deliver us from our sinful dispositions, and create in us pure hearts, and when we have Him with us it will not be hard for us. Then the service of Christ will be delightful. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Sin, Purity, Service | | If you are under the power of evil, and you want to get under the power of God, cry to Him to bring you over to His service; cry to Him to take you into His army. He will hear you; He will come to you, and, if need be, He will send a legion of angels to help you to fight your way up to heaven. God will take you by the right hand and lead you through this wilderness, over death, and take you right into His kingdom. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Repentance | | I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world. Author: David Brainerd
Topics: Service | | How many there are whose lives are weak and whose service is poor and ineffective, just because they have not zealously guarded the time and place of prayer! Author: Duncan Campbell
Topics: Prayer | | A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation. Author: E.M. Bounds
Topics: Prayer, Holiness | | If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth's grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God's will. Author: E.M. Bounds
Source: The Essentials of Prayer, Baker Book House, 1979, p. 19.
Topics: Obedience | | It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. Author: Francis of Assisi
Topics: Service | | Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value. Author: George Macdonald
Topics: Service | | Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another. Author: George Washington
Topics: Obedience, Discipline, War | | It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation. Author: Hannah More
Topics: Service, Laziness, Meditation | | What is needed for happy effectual service is simply to put your work into the Lord's hand, and leave it there. Do not take it to Him in prayer, saying, "Lord, guide me, Lord, give me wisdom, Lord, arrange for me," and then arise from your knees, and take the burden all back, and try to guide and arrange for yourself. Leave it with the Lord, and remember that what you trust to Him you must not worry over nor feel anxious about. Trust and worry cannot go together. Author: Hannah Whitall Smith
Topics: Trust, Worry | | It is more important that God be glorified then that I accomplish certain things in the line of service. Author: Harry Ironside
Topics: Service | | Just because God worketh in him, as the evidence and triumph of it, the true child of God works out his own salvation--works it out having really received it--not as a light thing, a superfluous labour, but with fear and trembling as a reasonable and indispensable service. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, p. 335.
Topics: Salvation | | To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, Come to me and rest. But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them this same invitation is meant. Note well the words of Jesus, if you are heavy-laden with your service, and do not mistake it. It is not, Go, labor on, as perhaps you imagine. On the contrary, it is stop, turn back, Come to me and rest. Never, never did Christ send a heavy laden one to work; never, never did He send a hungry one, a weary one, a sick or sorrowing one, away on any service. For such the Bible only says, Come, come, come. Author: Hudson Taylor
Topics: Prayer, Service, Salvation | | If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. Author: Isaac Newton
Topics: Patience, Reasoning | | Christians in revival are accordingly found living in God's presence (Coram Deo), attending to His Word, feeling acute concern about sin and righteousness, rejoicing in the assurance of Christ's love and their own salvation, spontaneously constant in worship, and tirelessly active in witness and service, fueling these activities by praise and prayer. Author: J.I. Packer
Source: Marks of Revival, Revival Commentary, v. 1, n. 1.
Topics: Revival | | Leadership is made for service. Author: Jack Hyles
Topics: Leadership | | Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service. Author: Jack Hyles
Topics: Love, Selfishness, Service | | One improper word or act will neutralize the effect of many good ones; and one base deed, after years of noble service, will cover them all with shame. Author: James H. Aughey
Topics: Good and Evil | | For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond Him - they will never yield Him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in Him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to Him. Author: John Calvin
Topics: Service | | As is true of man who is born naturally and receives a human nature from his parents, so man born anew receives a new nature, a new capacity for service and devotion to God. Author: John F. Walvoord
Topics: Renewal | | Do you ever wonder what it would be like to visit a New Testament church service? I imagine it would be a far cry from our stately sanctuaries with their crystal chandeliers and misty-mauve carpets. Author: John Hagee
Topics: Church | | God has created me to do him some definite service; he has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission - I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. Author: John Henry Newman
Topics: Service, Missions | | When someone acts weak, negligent, or casual in a duty - performing it carelessly or lifelessly, without any genuine satisfaction, joy, or interest - he has already entered into the spirit that will lead him into trouble. How many we see today who have departed from warmhearted service and have become negligent, careless, and indifferent in their prayer life or in the reading of the Scriptures. For each one who escapes this peril, a hundred others will be ensnared. Then it may be too late to acknowledge, "I neglected private prayer," or "I did not meditate on God's Word," or "I did not hear what I should have listened to." Author: John Owen
Topics: Prayer | | Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality and cut ourselves off from many of the riches of God's grace. Author: John Stott
Topics: Knowledge | | God is so great, that he communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for his service. Author: John Wesley
Topics: Service | | The flesh everything that you do apart from Him "profiteth nothing" (John 6:63), and there is always the awful possibility, if you do not discover this principle, that you may spend a lifetime in the service of Jesus Christ doing nothing! Author: Major Ian Thomas
Topics: Service | | The idea that the service to God should have only to do with a church altar, singing, reading, sacrifice, and the like is without doubt but the worst trick of the devil. How could the devil have led us more effectively astray than by the narrow conception that service to God takes place only in a church and by the works done therein. The whole world could abound with the services to the Lord, Gottesdienste - not only in churches but also in the home, kitchen, workshop, field. Author: Martin Luther
Topics: Service, Home | | You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men. This is mine: that a life spent in the service of God, and communion with Him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life that anyone can live in this world. Author: Matthew Henry
Topics: Death, Life | | What think we of Christ? Is He altogether glorious in our eyes, and precious to our hearts? May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service. Author: Matthew Henry
Topics: Faithful, Joy, Service | | Those who have a saving interest in Christ must be willing to part with all for Him, leave all to follow Him. Whatever stands in opposition to Christ, or in completion with Him for our love and service, we must cheerfully quit it, though ever so dear to us. Author: Matthew Henry
Topics: Submission | | We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God. Author: Oswald Chambers
Topics: God | | God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him, He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him. When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God. Author: Oswald Chambers
Topics: Service | | We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer. Author: Oswald Chambers
Topics: Prayer | | No vassalage is so ignoble, no servitude so miserable, as that of vice; mines and galleys, mills and dungeons, are words of ease compared to the service of sin; therefore, the bringing sinners to repentance is so noble, so tempting a design, that it drew even God himself from heaven to prosecute it. Author: Richard Baxter
Topics: Sin | | Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces. Author: S.D. Gordon
Topics: Prayer, Service | | A small demerit extinguishes a long service. Author: Thomas Fuller
Topics: Service, Discretion | | Church members too often expect service and never think of giving it. Author: Vance Havner
Topics: Church, Service | | When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing! Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Blessings, Service, Gifts | | But how much self-reliance obtains in Christian service. More effort is exerted in planning and arranging than in waiting upon the Lord. Double is the time expended on preparing the division and conclusion of a sermon than on receiving the power from on high because there is so much trust in the flesh. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Preaching, Waiting, Power | | Often the children of God cannot rise up to answer the Lord's call to service simply because, though their physical condition is good, their feelings are low, cold, and reluctant. Or even when their emotions are quite high, passionate, and willing, they find themselves unable to serve the Lord because now the body reacts lazily. The disciples found themselves in precisely that situation in the Garden of Gethsemane: "the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Matt. 26:41) Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Service, Laziness, Feelings | | Furthermore, through the believer's spirit the Holy Spirit is able to impart God's life to thirsty and dying men. However, this filling of the Holy Spirit differs from the baptism with the Holy Spirit, because the latter is for the purpose of service while the former solves the problem of life (naturally it will affect service too). Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Holy Spirit, Service | | The flesh is condemned forever before God and by God is sentenced to death. Are we not attempting the impossible if we desire not its death but rather seek to adorn the flesh with the Holy Spirit that it may be more powerful in service? What is our intention after all? Personal attraction? Fame? Popularity? The admiration of spiritual believers? Success? Being pleasing to man? Self-edification? People with mixed motives, those of double mind, shall not be able to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Holy Spirit, Service | | Spiritual service consequently must be inaugurated by the Lord Himself calling us. It should not be initiated through the persuasion of preachers, the encouragement of friends, or the bent of our natural temperament. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Service | | Unfortunately, many of God's servants frequently are pressed by environment or other factors into working mechanically. As soon as the individual is aware of it, he ought to inquire whether such "mechanical work" is desired by the Spirit or whether God would call him away to other service. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Holy Spirit, Service | | Countless are those saints who daily walk by their head and heart. In service we still attempt to move people's mind, emotion and will by our intellect, zeal and effort. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Christians | | And doth not God deserve the best service thou canst do him in thy generation? Author: William Gurnall
Topics: Service | | It is a greater glory to us that we are allowed to serve God, than it is to him that we offer him that service. He is not rendered happy by us; but we are made happy by him. He can do without such earthly servants; but we cannot do without such a heavenly Master. Author: William Secker
Topics: Service, Happiness | | There's no room for turning around in Christ's service. Author: Woodrow Kroll
Topics: Service | | God calls upon all His people to serve Him. The first thought many Christians have about service is that they are insufficient or incompetent to carry out such a holy and weighty task. Humanly speaking, they are right, but that is why God steps in and provides the competency or ability to do any task He calls them to do. Author: Woodrow Kroll
Topics: Service | | It is indeed praiseworthy for a believer to consecrate his life to the Lord, but he must never do so lightly or thoughtlessly. Before committing your life in service to God today, count the cost, for "No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God" (Luke 9:62). Author: Woodrow Kroll
Topics: Service, Consecration | | God is looking for men and women who will never be content with mere experiences and "blessings," but who will take up the cross daily and follow Jesus and thus manifest in their lives and in their service the reality of those words, "It is no longer I, but Christ that lives in me." This, and this alone is the Spirit-filled life. Author: Zac Poonen
Topics: Self-denial | | True service for the Lord will bring us material loss not gain. The profit will only be spiritual. That which brings material gain, on the other hand, belongs to Babylon and not to the heavenly Jerusalem. Author: Zac Poonen
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Found 16 quotes containing your search: | There are many to-day who have separated themselves from the services of the church, from the fellowship of the saints, because of a deadening indifference. They have become absorbed in a thousand other matters till they have become doubly uninterested in the things of the church and in the affairs of the Kingdom. Author: Clovis G. Chappell
Topics: Rebellion | | For the Christian church (even in its recently popular seeker services) to ignore, euphemize, or otherwise mute the lethal reality of sin is to cut the nerve of the gospel. For the sober truth is that without full disclosure on sin, the gospel of grace becomes impertinent, unnecessary, and finally uninteresting. Author: Cornelius Plantinga
Topics: Sin, The Gospel | | The preacher who will proclaim this glorious truth and magnify the cleansing power of the blood of Christ will find that his message of full deliverance touches life at every point. He is doing a disservice to his hearers and is dishonoring his God if he substitutes any other theme. Author: Duncan Campbell
Topics: Preaching | | It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. Author: George Washington
Topics: Government | | Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable. Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
Topics: Fear, Healing | | Raillery and wit were never made to answer our inquiries after truth, and to determine a question of rational controversy, though they may be sometimes serviceable to expose to contempt those inconsistent follies which have been first abundantly refuted by argument; they serve indeed only to cover nonsense with shame, when reason has first proved it to be mere nonsense. Author: Isaac Watts
Topics: Truth | | If we, as parents, are not painstakingly investing in the lives of our children, we are doing them a disservice and pain will be the likely result. Author: Jonathan Falwell
Topics: Parents | | Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable. Author: Matthew Henry
Topics: Achievement | | Often our influence in our communities extends to church programs, musicals, or weekly services. While those things can help present the Gospel, God desires for us to personally be influences on the world around us. Spreading the Gospel isn't solely the church's job; it's the job of every Christian. Author: Paul Chappell
Topics: Witnessing | | 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. Author: R.A. Torrey
Topics: Prayer | | Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb. Author: Thomas Brooks
Topics: Prayer | | Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind. Author: Thomas Fuller
Topics: Health, Discretion | | Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. Author: Vance Havner
Topics: Church | | No sort of defense is needed for preaching outdoors, but it would take a very strong argument to prove that a man who has never preached beyond the walls of his meetinghouse has done his duty. A defense is required for services within buildings rather than for worship outside of them. Author: William Booth
Topics: Evangelism, Preaching | | Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes; bid it listen and tell thee whether it cannot hear the shout of those crowned saints, as of those that are dividing the spoil, and receiving the reward of all their services and sufferings here on earth. Author: William Gurnall
Topics: Holiness, Overcoming | | A true Christian stands at as great distance from trusting in the best of his services as in the worst of his sins! He knows that the greatest part of his holiness will not make the least part of his justifying righteousness. Author: William Secker
Source: The Consistent Christian, 1660.
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