Jesus
"Do you know that if at birth I had been able to make one
petition, it would have been that I should be born blind?... Because when I get
to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my
Savior!" - Fanny Crosby
"How sweet the name of Jesus sounds in a believer's ear! It
soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, and drives away his fear!" - John Newton
"His love is what makes us live, love, sing, and praise forever."
- John Bunyan
"Because of His infinite perfection and His inestimable benefits,
the Lamb of God deserves our highest praise." - John Bunyan
"When Christ returns, He will not be treated as He was before.
There will be room for Him at Bethlehem. He will be welcome in Jerusalem.
He will reveal Himself as Joseph revealed himself to his brethren. He will
say to the Jews, 'I am Jesus,' and they will reply, 'Blessed is he that cometh
in the name of the Lord." - Dwight L. Moody
Judgment
"The calamities of the righteous are preparing them for their
future blessedness, and the wicked, while their days are prolonged, are but
ripening for ruin. There is a judgment to come, which will rectify this
seeming irregularity, to the glory of God and the full satisfaction of all his
people, and we must wait with patience till then." - Matthew Henry
"Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment." -
Benjamin Franklin “Where
death leaves me, judgment finds me. As I die, so shall I live eternally.” –
Charles Spurgeon
Justice
“Even necessary
justice is to be done with compassion.” – Matthew Henry
Life
"You will get out of life just what you look for. The
vulture sees the carrion, no matter how high he soars. The bee looks for
flowers everywhere he goes" - Billy Sunday "All
the impulses of life show in your face." - J. Frank Norris
"O,
how we need to live not in time, but in eternity!" - J. Frank Norris
Live for Today
“Only the man who lives for today would allow himself to be
victimized by hedonistic ideas such as Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow
you die. Such men are blinded to the glory of the ultimate by the glitter of
the immediate.”
Live to meet God
"Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if
it were the last hour of my life." - Jonathan Edwards
"Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in
comparison with eternal realities." - Robert M. McCheyne
How we live our lives is more important than how long we live our lives. —
Elaine Froese
Love
"God is love; to do his will is to scatter love in handfuls of
blessing on a weary world." - F.B. Meyer
"Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is
love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith
is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love
in training." - Dwight L. Moody
"Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for
explanations. It trusts and is at rest." - Amy Carmichael
"The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it
understands love and sympathy." - Dwight L. Moody
"Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the
great pleasure of our lives on earth." - John Bunyan
Marriage
"Companionate marriage is the marriage of the zoo and barnyard.
All the monkeys, baboons and gorillas, hogs, cattle and cats live in
companionate marriage, free to quit any time. If we have the sins of
Babylon, we will have her judgments." - Billy Sunday
"When there's marriage without love, there will be love without
marriage." - Benjamin Franklin
"If a child of God marries a child of the Devil, said child of
God is sure to have some trouble with his father-in-law." - unknown
Ministry
"The true ministry is God-touched, God-enabled, and God-made." -
E.M. Bounds
Missionary
"God had an only Son and he made him a missionary." - David
Livingstone
"Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been
a missionary." - C. T. Studd “If a commission by an earthly king
is considered an honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a
sacrifice?” – David Livingstone
“If missions languish, it is because the whole life of
godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is
not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living,
praying, giving and going will always be found together.” - A.T. Pierson
“The spirit of Christ is the
spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we
become.” – Henry Martyn
Money
"riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or
has not a heart to make good use of them." - Matthew Henry
"Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are
good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they
are good for nothing." - Matthew Henry
"Great beauty, great strength, and great riches, are really and
truly of no great use; a light heart exceeds all." - Benjamin Franklin
"He does not possess wealth, it possesses him." - Benjamin
Franklin
"It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is.
In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their
treasures are on the earth or in Heaven." - D.L. Moody
Morning devotions
"He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find him the
rest of the day." - John Bunyan
“Do not have your concert
first and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of
God and prayer, and go first of all into harmony with Him.” – Hudson Taylor
Mouth
"The heart of a fool is in his mouth but the mouth of a wise man
is in his heart." - Benjamin Franklin
"He that speaks much, is much mistaken." - Benjamin Franklin
"Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth.
How can I hope to govern the tongues of others?" - Benjamin Franklin
"A slip of the foot you may soon recover: but a slip of the
tongue you may never get over." - Benjamin Franklin
"Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy." - Benjamin
Franklin
Need
"I have a great need for Christ; I have a great Christ for my
need." - Charles H. Spurgeon
Obedience
"Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle
with anything he has commanded." - Dwight L. Moody
Old Age
“Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which
is empty of purpose until sixty-five will not suddenly become filled on
retirement.” – D.L. Moody
Persecution
“All of your ingenious cruelties can accomplish nothing; they are
only a lure to this sect. Our number increases the more you destroy us. The
blood of the Christians is their seed.” - Tertuillian
"Think you to serve God by killing us with your hand? Ye
err, if ye, poor mortals, think this; God has not hangmen for priests.
Christ teaches us to bear wrong, not to revenge it." - Petillian a Donatist
Bishop 347 A.D.
"God appinted prophets and fishermen not princes and soldiers, to
spread the faith." - Gaudentius a Donatist preacher
"The burning of heretics cannot be justified by the Scriptures.
Christ Himself teaches that the tares, should be allowed to grow with the wheat.
He did not come to burn, or to murder, but to give life, and that more
abundantly. We should, therefore, pray and hope for improvement in men as
long as they live. If they cannot be convinced by appeals to reason, or
the Word of God, they should be let alone. One can not be made to see his
errors either by fire or sword. But if it is a crime to burn those who
scornfully reject the Gospel of Jesus Christ, how much more it is a crime to
burn the true expounders and exemplars of the Word of God. Such an
apparent zeal for God, the welfare of the soul, and the honor of the church, is
a deception. Indeed to every one it must be evident that the burning of
heretics is a device of Satan. - Baithasar Hubmaier 1524 A.D.
"Anabaptists and reactionists should be alike put to death."
"These altogether deserve to be well punished by the sword, seeing that they do
conspire against God, who had set him in his royal seat." - John Calvin
“Thus was the King and the Lord of Glory judged by man’s judgment when manifest
in flesh; far be it from any of His ministers to expect better treatment.” –
George Whitefield
Philosophy
"All the philosophy and politics in the world will not restore
the corrupt nature of man to it primitive rectitude; we find the insufficiency
of them both in others and in ourselves. Learning will not alter men's
natural tempers, nor cure them of their sinful distempers; nor will it change
the constitution of things in this world; a vale of tears it is and so it will
be when all is done" - Matthew Henry
Praises
“Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to
attend him with their prayers.” – Matthew Henry
Prayer
"When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than
thy words be without heart." - John Bunyan
"There is no myth, no imagination about it; God does hear when we
speak to him; God does answer us." - Amy Carmichael
"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?" - Corrie Ten
Boom
"Some men will spin out a long prayer telling God who and what He
is, or they pray out a whole system of divinity. Some people preach,
others exhort the people, till everybody wishes they would stop and God wishes
so, too, most undoubtedly." - Charles Finney
"You are coming to a King, Large petitions with you bring for his
grace and power are such none can ever ask too much." - John Newton
"We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous
thought that God will not answer prayer. History, as manifested in Christ
Jesus, demands it." - Charles H. Spurgeon
"I wonder how many of us ever study the fine art of praying, or
do we just get up and start, go nowhere, and get nowhere. We should give
careful thought to our praying." - J. Frank Norris
"There are some things that ought to be in every prayer, three
things. First there should be praise. Second after the note of praise, then
there should be penitence or confession of our sins. Third and then after we
have given praise, and our confession, then petition. Praise! Penitence!
Petition!" - J. Frank Norris
"I believe that all you have to do to get a prayer answered it to
pray something in the will of God and pray it with the right motive and pray it
with the right heart." - Tom Malone
"Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of
all personal godliness." - William Carey
"Prayer is not learned in the classroom, but in the closet." -
E.M. Bounds
"What the Church needs today is not more or better machinery, not
new organizations or more and novel methods. She needs men whom the Holy
Spirit can use - men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Spirit does
not flow through methods, but through men. He does not anoint plans, but
men - men of prayer!" - E.M. Bounds
"So we come to one of the crying evils of these times, maybe of
all times - little or no praying. Of these two evils, perhaps little
praying is worse than no praying. Little praying is a kind of
make-believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion." - E.M. Bounds
"The little regard we give prayer is evident from the little time
we spend in it." - E.M. Bounds
"I ought to pray before seeing anyone. Often when I sleep
long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin
secret prayer. This is a wretched system. It is unscriptural.
Christ arose before day and went into a solitary place. David says: 'Early
will I seek Thee'; 'Thou shalt early hear my voice.' Family prayer loses much of
its power and sweetness, and I can do no good to those who come to seek from me.
My conscience feels guilty, my soul unfed, my lamp not trimmed. Then, when
in secret prayer, the soul is often out of tune. I feel it is far better
to begin with God - to see His face first - to get my soul near Him before it is
near another." - Robert Murray McCheyne
"Units of prayer combined, like drops of water, make an ocean
which defies resistance. So Paul, with his clear and full understanding of
spiritual dynamics, decided to make his ministry as impressive, eternal, and
irresistible as the ocean by gathering all the scattered units of prayer and
precipitating them on his ministry." - E.M. Bounds
"To pray is the greatest thing we can do; and to do it well there
must be calmness, time, and deliberation. Otherwise it is degraded into
the smallest and meanest of things. True praying has the largest results
for good; and poor praying, the least. We cannot do too much real praying;
we cannot do too little of the imitation. We must learn anew the worth of
prayer - enter anew the school of prayer." - E.M. Bounds
Prayer will become effective
when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience. – A.W. Tozer
"Nothing lies beyond the range
of prayer except that which is outside the will of God." - Bernie Smith
Preachers
"The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for
better men." - E.M. Bounds
"The man - the whole man - lies behind the sermon.
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life."
- E.M. Bounds
"Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and
desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or
laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the Kingdom of heaven
on earth. God does nothing but in answer to prayer." - John Wesley
"Dead men preach dead sermons, and dead sermons kill." - E.M.
Bounds
"The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to
himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must
be with himself." - E.M. Bounds
"Life-giving preaching costs the preacher much - death to self,
crucifixion to the world, the travail of his own soul. Only crucified
preaching can give life. Crucified preaching can only come from a
crucified man." - E.M. Bounds
"It is impossible for the preacher to keep his spirit in harmony
with the divine nature of his high calling without much and constant prayer." -
E.M. Bounds
Preaching
"Preaching should break a hard heart, and heal a broken heart." -
John Newton
"Some had predicted that I would trim my sermons to suit the New
York audiences, and many would have liked to see me stick on some gold leaf and
give the old ship of Zion a coat of new, modern paint. But she was still
the same old ship, same Captain, same compass, same chart, bound for the same
harbor." -Billy Sunday
"My method is, was and always will be to obtain immediate
decision and open confession of Christ. I preach Christ. That is the
sum and substance of my message. That cannot change. He alone can
save." - Billy Sunday
"I expect to preach as long as blood pumps through my veins." -
Billy Sunday (and by the way he had meetings scheduled months in advance at
the time of his death)
"A lot of people will sit and look at you but that doesn’t mean
that they are paying attention. So be sure you have your audience. I never
preach until I know I have my Congregation." - J. Frank Norris
"Don’t fail to make it clear – remember there’s a man out there
in front of you that is thinking about his cattle, and a woman thinking about
her housecleaning – and it’s up to you to get their attention." - J. Frank
Norris
"Rev
20:12 If you want conviction preach on that! I never fail to preach on the
books were opened. Preach that with tears! Preach that with faith! Preach that
with courage!" - J. Frank Norris
"Now
if you want to preach a sermon someday that has inspiration in it from the time
you start until you finish, and all between times, you just preach on the gifts
of God." - J. Frank Norris
"I’m going to take the position of Jeremiah – call the people to
repentance. I know I’m on solid ground." - J. Frank Norris
"Learn to outline scripture by scripture. Our words amount to
nothing but the very words of God are everything – they live, they are inspired
by the Holy Spirit and are blessed of the Holy Spirit when proclaimed." - J.
Frank Norris "If you want a real
sermon, preach on John standing by the cross. John was the only one of twelve
that went to the cross." - J. Frank Norris
"Now then let me say another thing. Preach
a great deal on judgment." - J. Frank Norris
"It’s not our business, beloved, to clean up
all the gambling, and vice, and liquor, because there was some here when we got
here and there be some left when we get through. It’s our business to preach
the Gospel of individual regeneration." - J. Frank Norris
"I’ve got a Book here. I’ve got a Book, and
it’s the only Book, - Stand on it, and challenge the world." - J. Frank Norris
"We have emphasized sermon preparation until we have lost
sight of the important things to be prepared - the heart. A prepared heart
is much better than a prepared sermon. A prepared heart will make a
prepared sermon." - E.M. Bounds
Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when
you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk. – Billy Sunday
Procrastination
“Procrastination is more than the thief of time – it is the
thief of souls.” – Bernie Smith
Provision
"We rely upon the verses which assure us that our Father knows
our needs, and we take it that with such a Father, to know is to supply." - Amy
Carmichael
“Those that cheerfully use what God has given them thereby honour
the giver, answer the intention of the gift, act rationally and generously, do
good in the world, and make what they have turn to the best account, and this is
both their credit and their comfort; it is good and comely; there is duty and
decency in it.” - Matthew Henry
God wisely orders small
events; and those that seem altogether contingent serve his own glory and the
good of his people. Many a great affair is brought about by a little turn,
which seemed fortuitous to us, but was directed by Providence with design. –
Matthew Henry Inspirational
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