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Quotes on faith
Quotes on prayer
Quotes on revival
God, it has been said, does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters. Lighthouses are built by drowning sailors. Roads are widened by mangled motorists. Where nobody suffers, nobody cares.
When Christ cried "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" it was a terrible moment for Christ. But, I believe, that is was more terrible for God to hear His cry. Immutable Being, Love Being, what infinite sadness, deep, incomprehensible.
Show thy lovingkindness tonight, O Lord, to all who stand in need of thy
help. Be with the weak to make them strong and with the strong to make them
gentle. Cheer the lonely with thy company and the distracted with thy
solitude.
There are times when I draw near enough to touch Him, then I know that He has been there all the time.
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you. - John Bunyan
God, in Your goodness give me Yourself, for You are enough for me. And only
in You do I have everything. Amen.
So many of us are so busy doing God's work, we forget sometimes that God is actually the One working.
Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.
Worship is the act of rising to a personal, experimental consciousness of the real presence of God which floods the soul with joy and bathes the whole inward spirit with refreshing streams of life.
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day;
I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.
The sermon will be better if you listen as a Christian rather than as a critic.
As a man goes down in self, he goes up in God.
If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again, when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again, like the stone of Sisyphus. - C H Spurgeon
The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky,-
No higher than the soul is high.
The heart can push the sea and land
Farther away on either hand;
The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.
The further one grows spiritually, the more and more people one loves and the fewer and fewer one likes.
The heart benevolent and kind,
The most resembles God.
The only important decision we have to make is to live with God; He will make the rest.
The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.
In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them. - E M Bounds
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable and receives the impossible.
There are four ways God answers prayer: No, not yet; No, I love you too much; Yes, I thought you'd never ask; Yes, and here's more.
God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation- a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth. On and on from fact divine he advances, until at length in his son Jesus he unveils his very face.
Why do we swim away from Him in our times of need? I believe it is because of the fact that we may not think He will forgive us. Maybe you believe that you have done too much. Maybe ran your bill up more than you can pay. But I'm here to tell you that no matter how far you have gone out to sea the Lord will not leave you. No matter how much you hurt Him, He still loves you.
A lot of people want to serve God, but only in an advisory capacity.
Afflictions are but the shadow of God's wings.
Faith doesn't make anything happen - faith rests on something that has happened!
The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude. --Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The purpose of prayer is not to inform God of our needs, but to invite him to rule our lives.
Failure is never final for those who begin again with God.
Many good and honorable men are plagued by thoughts that sometimes cross their minds; vile-selfish-lustful-unexplainable thoughts that pop up unexpectedly at the most surprising times. These thoughts are not sin! They do not become so unless a man entertains them- plays with them- encourages them- feeds them with imagination!
If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs. - C H Spurgeon
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.
Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I may get my heart full of my Lord Jesus.
Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation -- speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.
A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.
Each of us may be sure that if God sends us on stony paths He will provide us with strong shoes, and He will not send us out on any journey for which He does not equip us well.
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
Open hands should characterize the soul's attitude toward God- open to receive what he wants to give, open to give back what he wants to take.
Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it.
It is easier for me to have faith in the Bible than to have faith in D L Moody, for Moody has fooled me lots of times. - D L Moody
Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
We are told to "run with patience the race that is set before us." Faith is active, not static. It is more than mere belief. Faith is belief with legs on it. The athlete learns to run by running. Reading books about running is not enough. Lectures on running will not suffice. The athlete must get out on the track and begin to learn. Use the faith you have, and it will become stronger faith.
If you have a special need today, focus your full attention on the goodness and greatness of your Father rather than on the size of your need. Your need is tiny compared to His ability to meet it.
When we are willing to do His will it is not difficult to find out His will, but if willfully we make our plans and ask Him to sanction them, we can so easily move off the highway into the byways.
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. - A W Tozer
Because God wants only the best for you, you can hand your problems and frustrations over to His capable hands.
We stand between Him and those who don't know Him. We are the mirror catching the rays of His face and sending them down to those around. And not only do those around see the light -- His light -- in us, but we are being changed all the while. For others' sake as well as our own, the mirror should be kept clean and well polished so the reflection will be distinct and true.
God allows our faith to be tried, and He permits troubles to crowd into our lives. Sometimes they seem more than we can bear, but Christ can bear them. The first step toward "parted waters" is to frequently remind ourselves that the Lord has either put us in this difficult place or has allowed us to be there for reasons perhaps only He knows.
Our lives are a manifestation of what we think about God.
Now is God's appointed time,
Accept Him while you may;
Tomorrow is uncertain,
God's promise is today.
Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than thought can imagine - so near that a whisper can reach Him. . . our Very Present Help will not disappoint us. For Thou, Lord, hast never failed them that seek Thee.
He knows when we are spiritually ready for receive the blessing to our profit and His glory. Waiting in the sunshine of His love is what will ripen the soul for His blessing. Waiting under the cloud of trial, that breaks in showers of blessings, is as needful. Be assured that if God waits longer than you could wish, it is only to make the blessing doubly precious. God waited 4000 years, till the fulness of time, ere He sent His Son. Our times are in His hands; He will avenge His elect speedily; He will make haste for our help, and not delay one hour too long. - Andrew Murray
God's whole employment is to lift up the humble and to cast down the proud.
A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.
Calvary shows how far men will go in sin, and how far God went for man's salvation.
Do not face a day until you have faced God.
If we have God in all things while they are ours, we shall have all things in God when they are taken away.
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for every one has need to be forgiven.
No man ever repented on his deathbed of being a Christian.
There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed. - C H Spurgeon
God has given us His Word, the Bible. Do you want to know God more deeply and intimately? Do you want to discover His will for your life? Then read and study the Scriptures daily.
None can sing a new song who has not the new life. But many who have the new life seem to have lost the song. The first thing that goes when we begin to backslide is the joy of the Lord.
The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.
The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice.
The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.
-- Martin Luther
There are... few stronger indications of ignorance of the power and evil of sin than the confident assertion of our ability to resist and subdue it.
We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
For many people today the problem is not false religion, but a total lack of any religious views at all. They may say, "Yes, I believe in God," when a poll is taken -- but He has no influence on their lives. They are what someone termed "practical atheists" living life just as if God did not exist.
The greatest need today is not more Christians but more true Christians.
Patrick Henry wrote in his will: "I have now disposed of all my property to my family; there is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. If they have
that, and I had not given them one shilling they would be rich; and if they had not this, and I had given them all this world, they would be poor."
You do not have to do some wonderful thing to be saved. All you have to do is to accept the wonderful thing Christ has done for you.
Fear not tomorrow, for God is already there.
God loves you as if you were the only one to love!
God rewards not success but faithfulness.
God sometimes snuffs out our brightest candle so that we may look up to His eternal stars.
God took the worst thing that man could do to his Son, and transformed it into the best thing He could do for man.
We encounter God in the ordinariness of life, not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences, but in our simple presence in life.
He who gives thanks for a little will always find he has enough.
Calvary is where God and mankind met, and God won!
If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for. - Charles H. Spurgeon
If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself. - John Newton
It is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up "our own" when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud, He would hardly have us on such terms.
WHERE IS GOD? ...As a good Christian should consider every place holy because God is there, so he should look upon every part of this life as a matter of holiness because it is to be offered unto God.
If the Bible is mistaken in telling us from where we came, how can we trust it to tell us where we are going?
Jesus is our mouth, through which we speak to the Father; He is our eye, through which we see the Father; He is our right hand through which we offer ourselves to the Father. Unless He intercedes, there is no intercourse with God.
Guilt is concerned with the past.
Worry is concerned about the future.
Contentment enjoys the present.
At his ascension our Lord entered heaven, and he keeps the door open for humanity to enter. - Oswald Chambers
Believers have not been distinctly guided to see that nothing is more natural and beautiful and blessed than to be nothing, so that God may be all... - Andrew Murray
Christianity can never come to us as a bargain; it can never be had at wholesale price. We must be willing to pay the full price of surrender and trust.
Depend on it, God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies.
- J Hudson Taylor
We see in the risen Christ the end for which man was made, and the assurance that the end is within our reach.
We must always be on our guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.
To God, our journey is as important as our destinations.
We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.
Too many people are praying for mountains of difficulty to be removed, when what they really need is courage to climb them.
For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience, and tears.
Trust God for great things; with your five loaves and two fishes, He will show you a way to feed thousands.
The soul of one who loves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, and is always in the mood for singing.
God chooses to reveal His power through the unlikely, the illogical, the impossible. Through the weakest of people, His strength is shown. Through the most impossible of circumstances, His power is revealed.
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
- Spurgeon
However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will -- unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself -- not one step will you advance on the road to perfection.
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