"Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men."
- E.M.Bounds
"Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Let us beware lest the things we own come to own us."
- Anonymous
"'Why are we not more holy?' asked John Wesley, addressing his preachers. 'Chiefly because we are enthusiasts, looking for the end without the means.'" - John Wesley
"The devil has a counterfeit for nearly everything."
- Anonymous
"The Book of books is called the Holy Bible because it has a holy author, and aims at a holy purpose, the production of holiness in its readers."
- Daniel Steele
"Take heed of drowsiness in hearing."
- Thomas Watson
"Are we jealous for God's glory?
To me that is what revival is all about."
- Leonard Ravenhill
"We are not praying that our borders be opened. We are praying that heaven be opened."
- The prayer of a church under persecution in Vietnam
"The three secrets of the Christian life are:
1. humility
2. humility
3. humility.
God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."
-Zac Poonen
"If the doctrine of Christian union is true, then division and sectarianism are a great and prodigious evil, and therefore ought to be abolished. Who then will lay the axe to the root of this corrupt tree to help cut it down?"
-D.S. Warner
"If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing
Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he
flinches at that point."
- Martin Luther
"One man with God is always in the majority."
- John Knox
"A dark hour makes Jesus bright."
- Robert Murray McCheyne
"There are only two days on my calendar...today and the day of judgement".
- Martin Luther
"You may pay for the book in which the Gospel is contained; for the Church or chapel in which it is preached, for the minister who preaches it to you ... but, the Gospel itself is as free as the light that shines, as the rain and dew which fall from above; as the air which you inhale and as every other blessing of God."
- John Bate
"This life is a dressing room for eternity - THAT'S ALL IT IS!"
- Leonard Ravenhill
"If the service of God is worth anything, it is worth everything. We shall find our best reward in the Lord's work if we do it with determined diligence. Our labor is not in vain in the Lord, and we know it."
- Charles H. Spurgeon
"The evangelist who preaches for eternity is never great on numbers. He is not apt to count hundreds of converts where there is no restitution, no confession, and no glad cry which proclaims, 'The lost is found, the dead is made alive again!'"
- E.M. Bounds.
"I would say without any hesitation that the most urgent need in the Christian Church today is true preaching; and as it is the greatest and most urgent need in the Church, it is obviously the greatest need of the world also."
- Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones.
"18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen."
- Jesus Christ, Matthew 28
"15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory."
- Apostle Paul, 1 Timothy 3
"9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you."
- Jesus Christ in John 15.
"3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones."
- Solomon, Proverbs 3