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Quotes Worth Repeating

Are the things your living for worth Christ dying for?
~ Leonard Ravenhill

God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there.
~ F. W. Faber

The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to God is filled with His own peace; and the closer we draw to our God, so much the stronger and more steadfast and tranquil shall we become.
~ Jean Nicolas Grou

Be persuaded, timid soul, that He has loved you too much to cease loving you.
~ Fenelon

The spirit of prayer is pressing forth of the soul out of this earthly life; it is a stretching with all its desire after the life of God, to be one life, one love, one spirit with Christ in God.
~ William Law

A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.
~ Charles H. Brent

Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.
~ Charles H. Brent

True peace is when the soul revolves around its center, Almighty God, craving for nothing but what God continually supplies. Since the soul is large enough to contain the infinite God, nothing less than Himself can satisfy or fill it.
~ Edward B. Pusey

Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.
~ Horace Bushnell

You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more difficult than these, that you need to be anxious about His management of it?
~ Hannah Whitall Smith

As in our daily walk we come nearer towards heaven, He will open to us more of heaven.
~ Edward B. Pusey

I have no home, until I am in the realized presence of God. This holy presence is my inward home, and, until I experience it, I am a homeless wonderer, a straying sheep in waste howling wilderness.
~ Anonymous

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
~ C. T. Studd

Measure thy life by loss and not by gain.
Not by the wine drunk, but by the wine poured forth.
For love’s strength standeth in love’s sacrifice.
And He who suffers most has most to give.

~ Ugo Bassi

The more we pay for any truth, the better is our bargain.
~ William Law

Prayer is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man’s true spiritual condition (there is nothing so much as prayer life that tells the truth about us as Christina people.) Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer.
~ Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones

I do not want people who come with me under certain reservations. In battle you need soldiers who fear nothing.
~ Pere Didon

Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee more faithfully; to give and not to count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labour and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do Thy will, O Lord our God.
~ Traditional Prayer

Lord Jesus, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love withouten measure; desire withouten limit; longing withouten order; burning withouten discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor be dread thronged, nor by doom tempted.
~ Richard Rolle

First of the Christian graces - humility
Second of the Christian graces - humility
Third of the Christian graces - humility.
~ St. Augustine

It is the heart that experiences God and not the reason.
~ Pascal

Where there is fear of God to keep the house, the enemy can find no way to enter.
~ St. Francis of Assisi

I look not to win away my home without wounds and blood.
~ Samuel Rutherford

Yet more, Oh my God, more toil, more agony, more suffering for Thee.
~ Francis Xavier

The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.
~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones

There is no sin [unchastity] which will sooner bring about a nation’s fall. If histoy teaches anything, it teaches that sensual indulgence is the surest way to national ruin. Society, in not condemning this sin, condemns itself.
~ F. B. Meyer

The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights
~ Oswald Chambers

Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.
~ Charles H. Brent

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to him.
~ Charles H. Spurgeon

Cursed be that love and unity for whose sake the Word of God must be put at stake.
~ Martin Luther

The cure for dullness in the pulpit is not brilliance but reality.
~ Principal P. R. Forsyth

Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.
~ Thomas Betterton

Beware of prayerless tears and beware of tearless prayers.
~ Anon

Gethsemane is where He died; the cross is only the evidence.
~ Leonard Ravenhill

Prayer must be of the right sort
very humble
   very expectant
      very persevering. Lord, teach me to pray.
                                                                             ~ Alexander Smellie

In prayer... "I must wrestle like Jacob, and pant like David, and hope like Elijah, and be persistent like Bartimeus, and cry with tears like my blessed Lord."
~ Alexander Smellie

No listening is healthy which is not mentally referred to obedience. We are to listen with a view to obedience, with our eyes upon the very road where the obedient feet will tread. "Doing" makes a new thing out of "hearing."
The statue obeyed becomes a song.
The commandment is found to be a beatitude.
The decree discloses reaches of grace.
The hidden things of God are not discovered until we are treading the path of obedience.
~ Henry Jowett

With God, the most of mosts is lighter than nothing, and without Him the least of leasts is heavier than any burden.
~ One of the ladies of the Scottish Covenant

Unity without verity is no better than conspiracy.
~ John Trapp

Pray absolutely for those things you may pray for absolutely.
Pray conditionally for those things you may pray for conditionally.
For those things you can’t pray for - don’t.
~ Paul Gerhardt

You’ve got to have fire to set fire with. You’ve got to have life to propagate life with.
~ Dwight L. Moody

Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear.
~ F. B. Meyer

The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.
~ James Denney

When the door opens we ought to press in, sacrificing our lives if needs be for God... of course it costs life. It is not an expedition of ease nor a picnic excursion to which we are called. It is going to cost many a life, and not lives only, but prayers and tears and blood.
~ Dr. Zwemer

You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hill-tops.
~ John Bunyan

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered

Bend the Church and Save the World
~ Evan Roberts

A smart man learns from his mistakes
A wise man learns from other's mistakes

People don't do what you expect, but what you inspect

Your gifts will bring you to the top, but your character will keep you there

Rules without relationship lead to rebellion

Just you and Jesus is a majority

Seek the healer - not just the healing

Hurt people ---- hurt people

A man once asked God how long a million days seemed to Him, God replied, it is like a second to you. The man then asked God what a million dollars was to Him, He said it is like a penny to you. The man in turn asked God for a million dollars, The Lord said sure thing wait just a second.

There are two kinds of shouts: a shout that is made, and a shout that makes you.
There are men of God, but there are also men who are God's men.
There is a place where you take hold of God, but there is a better place where God takes hold of you.
~Smith Wigglesworth

The bible does not contain the word of God; it is the word of God.

Id rather be a worm than be eaten by them

A sinning man stops praying
A praying man stops sinning

Some people want a platonic relationship with God -- If the human race had only platonic relationships this world would not be populated

Without the intimacy with Christ we can not reproduce Christians

You were born an original -- don't die a copy

Live by the compass -- not by the clock

The man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by man

Don't measure yourself by yourself

The reason the book of acts was written was because people acted

God will call you to do something bigger than yourself so you will have to rely fully on him.

When it comes to giving some people stop at nothing

Some people have satan under there feet, but they are walking on their hands

All that is required for evil to triumph is for you the Church to be silent

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice

Two stonecutters were asked what they were doing. The first said, "I'm cutting this stone into blocks." The second replied, "I'm on a team that's building a cathedral"

Regardless of what company you work for, never forget the most important product you're selling is Jesus through yourself

Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It's just a matter of how you view them

I am only one; but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
I will not refuse to do the something I can do

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself

If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail, or would it go for a bargain-basement price?

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others

Oh, what a big difference between nearly right and exactly right

Excellence is never an accident

Well done is better than well said

It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce

Some goals are so worthy, it' glorious even to fail

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks

When you have been wronged, a poor memory is your best response

Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge the other guy's out dancing

Don't use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead

Happiness is not an absence of problems; but the ability to deal with them

Success is getting what your want. Happiness is liking what you get

When you tell the truth, you never have to worry about you lousy memory

The manager administers -- The leader innovates
The manager maintains -- The leader develops
The manager relies on systems -- The leader relies on people
The manager counts on control -- The leader counts on trust
The manager does things right -- The leader does the right thing

Marriage is an empty box. It remains empty unless you put in more than you take out

If you're looking for a big opportunity, seek out a big problem

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds

Don't wait for your ship to come in row out to meet it

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go

We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent

When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bulls-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim - improve yourself

Failure is success if we learn from it

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given

The road to success is not doing one thing 100 percent better, but doing 100 things one percent better

Success comes before work only in the dictionary

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can

The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about

Even is you're on the right track, you'll get over it if you just sit there

Some dance in the Spirit
Some dance only in the presence of the Spirit

Don't give until it hurts... Give until it helps because it hurts to quickly

No man is ever fully accepted until 1st he is utterly rejected

We don't need brilliance behind the pulpet we need brokenness

He who thinks by the yard and talks by the mile needs to be kicked by the foot

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot loose
~Jim Elliot

The Isrealites drank from the river, yet died in the wilderness

There's a difference from having the Power of God on you than having the Power of God in you

God’s work is done in God’s way conot fail to have God’s provision
~Hudson Taylor

It is useless to pray for the fire of heaven to decend when the altar is unbuilt and the sacrifice unprepared.
~Evan Roberts

It is only at the tree loaded with fruit that men throw stones.
~Charles Hadden Spurgeon