Great Quotes - Helpful Insights
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"He was born of a virgin, that we might be born of God.
He took our flesh, that he might give us his Spirit.
He lay in the manger that we might lie in paradise.
He came down from heaven, that he might bring us to heaven."
Thomas Watson (1620–1686)
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WILLIAM TEMPLE
Archbishop of Canterbury 1942-1944
The Church is the only institution that exists primarily for the
benefit of those who are not its members.
SMITH WIGGLESWORTH
“The Bible is the Word of God: supernatural in origin, eternal in duration,
inexpressible in valour, infinite in scope, regenerative in power,
infallible in authority, universal in interest,
personal in application, inspired in totality.
Read it through, write it down, pray
it in, work it out, and then pass it on.
Truly it is the Word of God.
It brings into man the personality of God;
it changes the man until he becomes the epistle of God.
It transforms his mind, changes his character, takes him on from grace to grace,
and gives him an inheritance in the Spirit.
God comes in, dwells in, walks in, talks through, and sups with him.”
“The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…
It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…
God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.”
“There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with
us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.”
“God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life.
Those who want to be ordinary and live on a lower plane can do so, but as for me, I will not.”
“The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that
we will seek but one thing only, and that is, His glory.”
“There is nothing that our God cannot do.
He will do everything if you will dare to believe.”
“God wants to purify our minds until we can bear all things,
believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things.
God dwells in you, but you cannot have this divine power until you live and walk in the Holy Ghost,
until the power of the new life is greater than the old life.”
“The blood of Jesus Christ and His mighty name are an antidote to
all the subtle seeds of unbelief that Satan would sow in your minds.”
“Real faith built the ark, but real faith did not shut the door.
God did that. He does what you cannot do.”
“The Lord was looking for fruit on the tree. He found “nothing but leaves.”
There are thousands of people like that. They dress up like Christians, but it is all leaves.
“Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit …” (John 15:8).
He has no way in which to get fruit, only through us."
“Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time.
It always sees the victory.”
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A. W. TOZER
I believe it might be accepted as a fairly reliable rule of thumb that
the man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader.
The true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage,
but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing
and altogether as ready to follow as to lead,
when the Spirit makes it clear that a wiser and more gifted
man than himself has appeared.
HUDSON TAYLOR
I used to ask God to help me.
Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.
God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men
to trust His great faithfulness.
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument
afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer,
and get first of all into harmony with Him.
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered;
it is a command to be obeyed.
I have found that there are three stages to every great work of God:
first it is IMPOSSIBLE, then it is DIFFICULT, then it is DONE.
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.
God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on Him.
Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.
Many Christians estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources,
and thus attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt.
All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God
because they reckoned on His power and presence with them.
There are three great truths,
1st, That there is a God;
2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible;
3rd, That He means what He says.
All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
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I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
BASILEA SCHLINK
Do not be lazy. Run each day's race with all your might,
so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God.
Keep on running even when you have had a fall.
The victory wreath is won by him who does not stay down,
but always gets up again,
grasps the banner of faith and keeps on running in the assurance that Jesus is Victor"
"Only good things come from God's hands.
He never gives you more than you can bear.
Every burden prepares you for eternity."
"The world of demons, fallen Angels, is very real - a fact we need to know.
We have to face up to this terrible reality, so that we do not fall unsuspectingly
into their hands and come under their tyranny."
"Everything God does is love -- even when we do not understand Him."
J. SIDLOW BAXTER
“No man’s education is complete if he does not know the Bible.
No Christian minister is really qualified for the ministry of the Christian church
without a thorough study of the Bible.
No Christian worker can be fully effective without a ready knowledge of the Bible.
No Christian believer can live the Christian life to the full
without an adequate grasp of the Bible.”
JOHN WESLEY
Do all the good you can - By all the means you can
In all the ways you can - In all the places you can
At all the times you can - To all the people you can
As long as ever you can!
Get on fire for God and men will come and see you burn.
Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin
and desire nothing but God;
such alone will shake the gates of hell.
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As for reputation, though it be a glorious instrument of advancing
our Master's service, yet there is a better than that:
a clean heart, a single eye, and a soul full of God.
Beware you do not get stuck in the work itself;
if you do, it is all lost labour.
Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul.
Therefore, fix on Him in all, through all, and above all.
Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did.
I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible,
lest it should find its way into my heart.
God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.
I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness
in our day that moves forth in mission
and creates authentic community in which each person
can be unleashed through the empowerment of
the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions.
His last words: "The best thing of all is - God is with us"
WILLIAM CAREY
Expect great things from God
Attempt great things for God
TERESA OF AVILA
Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours, no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which to look out
Christ's compassion to the world
Yours are the feet with which He is to go about
doing good;
Yours are the hands with which He is to bless men now
WILLIAM SEYMOUR
(Azusa Street Revival)
Our highest place is low at His feet
DWIGHT L. MOODY
Character is what you are in the dark
The Bible will keep you from sin,
or sin will keep you from the Bible.
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
God doesn't seek for golden vessels,
and does not ask for silver ones,
but He must have clean ones.
I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.
We are told to let our light shine,
and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does.
Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining
- they just shine.
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord,
but few of us are willing to do little things.
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Faith is to believe what you do not see,
The reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Seek not to understand - that you may believe,
but believe - that you may understand.
If you believe what you like in the gospels
and reject what you don't like,
It is not the gospel you believe,
but yourself.
Help us so to know You that we may truly love You,
so to love You that we may fully serve You,
Whom to serve is perfect freedom.
Lord Jesus, our Saviour, let us come to You.
Our hearts are cold; Lord, warm them with Your selfless love.
Our hearts are sinful; cleanse them with Your precious blood.
Our hearts are weak; strengthen them with Your joyous Spirit.
Our hearts are empty; fill them with Your divine presence.
Lord Jesus, our hearts are Yours;
possess them always and only for Yourself.
Pray as though everything depended on God.
Work as though everything depended on you.
It was pride that changed angels into devils;
it is humility that makes men as angels.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
WESTMINSTER CONFESSION
The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever
MARTIN LUTHER
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all;
but whatever I have placed in God's hands,
that I still possess.
You are not only responsible for what you say,
but also for what you do not say.
I live as though Jesus Christ died yesterday,
rose today
and is coming again tomorrow!
GEORGE WHITEFIELD
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense;
that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself
- nor with the preacher.
To preach more than half an hour,
a man should be an angel himself - or have angels for hearers.
JOHN CALVIN
However many blessings we expect from God,
His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
No man is excluded from calling upon God,
the gate of salvation is set open unto all men:
neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in,
save only our own unbelief.
All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits,
committed to our trust on this condition,
that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbours.
BILLY GRAHAM
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;
when health is lost, something is lost;
when character is lost, all is lost.
I don't need a successor,
only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.
God has given us two hands -
one to receive with and the other to give with.
We are not cisterns made for hoarding;
we are channels made for sharing.
Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently,
yet today many in church are chasing after the world
- not to win them, but to be like them.
WILLIAM BOOTH
Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
The chief danger that confronts the coming century will be
religion without the Holy Ghost,
Christianity without Christ,
forgiveness without repentance,
salvation without regeneration,
politics without God,
heaven without hell.
Work as if everything depended upon work and
pray as if everything depended upon prayer.
We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place,
and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.
KATHRYN KUHLMAN
The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels.
God asks for yielded vessels – those who will submit their will to the will of the Father.
And the greatest human attainment in all the world is for a life to be so surrendered to Him
that the name of God Almighty will be glorified through that life.
God never permitted a difficulty to come into our life without also giving us the ability to handle it.
God has provided us with every faculty. He has given us the power that we need for living victoriously.
I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything!
Then for the first time I realised what it meant to have real power.
I swell with pride when I can face the whole world and say,
“I belong to Him. The mighty God of this universe is my heavenly Father.
I’m His by adoption. I’m a joint-heir with His wonderful Son’
In that moment when you’re prone to be depressed,
when you find yourself in the spirit of bondage, look up.
Just pause and remember to Whom you belong.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others
it is the ONLY thing”
LEYROY EIMS
“A leader is one who sees MORE than others see,
who sees FURTHER than others see,
and who sees BEFORE others do”
WILLIAM LAW
“If anyone could tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and perfection,
he must tell you to make it a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.
For it is certain that whatever seeming calamity happens to you,
if you thank and praise God for it, you turn it into a blessing."
A.W. TOZER
“The devil is a better theologian than any of us
– and is a devil still.”
“The church or the individual that is Bible taught,
without being Sprit taught,
has simply failed to see that truth
lies deeper than the theological statement of it…
For a long time I have believed that truth to be understood,
must be lived,
that Bible doctrine is wholly ineffective until it has been digested
and assimilated by the total life…
At what point then does a theological fact become
for the one who holds it, a life-giving truth? –
At the point where OBEDIENCE begins…
We only possess what we experience.”
JIM ELLIOT
Misssionary Martyr
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep
to gain that which he cannot lose
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
When it comes time to die, make sure all you've got to do is die.
The man who will not act until he knows all
will never act at all.
The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for,
but we must believe that whatever it involves,
it is good, acceptable and perfect.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Preach the gospel and if necessary use words
Preach with your life, with your witness.
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life
TONY BLAIR
Indecision is also decision
Inaction is also action
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver
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JERRY COOK
“Today the Church of Jesus Christ needs to make a bold commitment to love people and then dedicate itself to fulfilling that commitment. Our whole lifestyle should tell people ‘If you come around here, we’re going to love you. No matter who you are or what you’ve done or how you look, smell or behave, we’re going to love you’… A church that can make that commitment to every person is a church that’s learning to love and a church that will be a force for God.”
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“Love means accepting people the way they are for Jesus’ sake. Jesus spent his time with dirty, filthy, stinking, bent sinners. And when those kinds of people find someone who will love and accept them, you won’t be able to keep them away.”
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“Unreserved acceptance of people should be a habit with us. There’s no other way to get close enough to people to help them at the level of their deepest needs. When we cultivate the habit of accepting people they open up to us, they like us, they trust us instinctively.”
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CORRIE TEN BOOM
“Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.”
“Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.”
“If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.”
“Don’t bother to give God instructions, just report for duty.”
“You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.”
“God takes our sins – the past, present, and future, and dumps them in the sea and puts up a sign that says NO FISHING ALLOWED.”
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Fr Theodore Hesburgh:
"The most important thing a father can do for his children
– is to LOVE THEIR MOTHER.””
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