"Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees."
- Corrie Ten Boom
"The Holy Spirit is the gift of the Risen Christ. His anointing filling, empowering work is a baptism of love that gives power to make Jesus real to you and known to others."
- Winkie Pratney
"A necessary pre-cursor of any great spiritual awakening is a spirit of deep humiliation growing out of a consciousness of sin, and fresh revelation of the holiness and power and glory of God."
- John R. Mott
"In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful."
- Charles Spurgeon
"But have we Holy Spirit power - power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?"
- Leonard Ravenhill
"Since the days of Pentecost, has the whole church ever put aside every other work and waited upon Him for ten days, that the Spirit's power might be manifested? We give too much attention to method and machinery and resources, and too little to the source of power."
- Hudson Taylor
"Many Christians estimate difficulty in the light of their own resources, and thus they attempt very little and they always fail. All giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence to be with them."
- Hudson Taylor
"Oh, the lives eternally wrecked by the yellow gospels of the day - the bloodless theories of unregenerate men that send their hearers to their doom instead of stopping them on their downward road!"
- H. A. Ironside
"And what is wrong with the old method of scaring the ungodly with a sermon on hell?"
- Vance Havner
"There is a lot of soft, sentimental talk about Him today that brings no conviction. When Isaiah saw the Lord, he did not feel comfortable! Neither did Habakkuk nor Daniel nor Paul nor John. We want a picture of Him today that does not disturb us, that smiles at sin, and winks at iniquity.
I remember a man who told me he wanted to
hear no hell-fire sermons but rather about the meek and lowly Jesus.
Yet the poor man did not seem to realize that the meek and lowly Jesus said more about hell than is reported from the lips of anyone else in the Bible!
We need a true and complete vision of God in His holiness and Christ in His glory that will bring us to repentance."
- Vance Havner.
"Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue."
- Martin Luther
"Spiritual maturity is reached when obedience [to God and His word] becomes a joy."
- Jesse Yoder
"In Acts the apostles prayed for 10 days then preached for 10 minutes and 3000 people were saved.
Today pastors pray for 10 minutes then preach for 10 days and wonder why no-one is saved."
- B.H. Clendennen.
"It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher."
- George Whitefield.
"8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
9 But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
10 Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
11 O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer."
- Nehemiah ch 1