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Corrie ten Boom
"Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible."
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"Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees."
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"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"
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"Prayerlessness is a sin."
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David Brainerd
"I cared not where I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls to Christ."
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"All my desire was the conversion of the heathen...I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world."
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David Otis Fuller
Speaking of evangelicals of bygone days, said: "Each man possessed the same fierce conviction--that all truth is absolute, never relative. For these men, truth was never a nose of wax to be twisted to suit their system of dialectics or deceptive casuistry. Two times two made four. In mathematics, their supreme authority was the multiplication table; in theology, their absolute authority was the Bible."
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Dr. Steve Hurt
"The things in life that seem to be most confusing usually turn out the greatest reward."
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"A supernatural God will always provide supernatural means."
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"Little steps lead to giant steps."
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"Write this down on every doubt that enters your mind and sign God's name to it, 'Faith is never completed until it is rewarded.'"
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"One who loves will gaze throught a telescope; one who envies through a microscope."
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"Someone who is jealous will burn down the house to kill a mouse."
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"Silence is seldon misquoted."
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"God and God's man are inseparable."
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"We must answer the wrong spirit with the right spirit."
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"It is impossible to receive God with one hand and reject God's man with the other hand."
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"Words spoken openly against God's man should not be idly spoken. It is proof of the presence of a rebellious spirit; it is the cancer of the Church."
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"We should forever be trying to improve our self in the ministry. But we must not try to become someone else in the ministry."
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George Dollar
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"Historic fundamentalism is the literal interpretation of all the affirmations and attitudes of the Bible and the militant exposure of all non-biblical affirmations and attitudes."
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George Muller-(1805-1898). English evangelist.
"A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised."
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"I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be."
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"If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes."
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"It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer."
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"The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray."
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IN DETERMINING THE WILL OF GOD FOR YOUR LIFE
1. I seek to get my heart into such a state that it has no will of its own in a given matter. When you’re ready to do the Lord’s will, whatever it may be, nine-tenths of the difficulties are overcome.
2. Having done this, I don’t leave the result to feeling or simply impression. If I do so, I leave myself liable to great delusion.
3. I seek the will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, God’s Word. The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also. If the Spirit guides us, He’ll do it according to the Scriptures, not contrary to them.
4. Next, I take into account providential circumstances. These often plainly indicate God’s will in connection with His Word and Spirit.
5. I ask God in prayer to reveal His will to me.
6. Thus, through prayer, the study of the Word, and reflection, I come to a deliberate judgment, according to the best of my ability and knowledge.
If my mind is thus at peace, and continues after two or three more petitions, I proceed accordingly.
I have found this method always effective in trivial or important issues.
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God judges what we give by what we keep.
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"It is not enough for the believer to begin to pray, nor to pray correctly; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray. We must patiently, believingly continue in prayer until we obtain an answer. Further, we have not only to continue in prayer until the end, but we have also to believe that God does hear us and will answer our prayers. Most frequently we fail in not continuing in prayer until the blessing is obtained, and in not expecting the blessing. Those who are disciples of the Lord Jesus should labor with all their might in the work of God as if everything depended upon their own endeavors. Yet, having done so, they should not in the least trust in their labor and efforts, nor in the means that they use for the spread of the truth, but in God alone; and they should with all earnestness seek the blessing of God in persevering, patient, and believing prayer. Here is the great secret of success, my Christian reader. Work with all your might, but never trust in your work. Pray with all your might for the blessing in God, but work at the same time with all diligence, with all patience, with all perseverance. Pray, then, and work. Work and pray. And still again pray, and then work. And so on, all the days of your life. The result will surely be abundant blessing. Whether you see much fruit or little fruit, such kind of service will be blessed."
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George Whitefield
"As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased."
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"Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ."
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"But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus."
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"It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher."
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"It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God."
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"It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world."
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"Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches."
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"My brethren, if you were left to yourselves, you would be overcome by every temptation with which you are beset."
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"Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you."
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"Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death."
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"The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so."
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"Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment."
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"Whole days and WEEKS have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer."
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Gypsy Smith
I'm God's messenger from the gypsy tent. And it's the message that's important, not the messenger.
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The way to Jesus is not by Cambridge and Oxford, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Socrates, Plato, Shakespeare or the poets—It is over an old-fashioned hill called Calvary.
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"I didn't go through your colleges and seminaries. They wouldn't have me...but I have been to the feet of Jesus were the only true scholarship is learned."
Biography of Rodney "Gypsy" Smith, 1860-1947, Evangelist
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Hudson Taylor-(1832-1905). English missionary to China.
“God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.”
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"Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all."
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"We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so.
We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!"
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When God's work is done in God's way for God's glory, it will never lack God's supply.
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“I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.”
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"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.”
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“I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.”
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“Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success.”
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“The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine; and at the right time, and in the right way, is the right fruit found on it. Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.”
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"Do we give sufficient attention to the theme of gaining Christ? It is our joy and privilege to know Him as God's unspeakable gift, but none knew this more fully than the apostle Paul. But was he satisfied with this knowledge? Or was Paul's soul-consuming desire, at all possible cost, to gain Christ; and thus to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings? Oh that Christ may be so known by us as a ‘living, bright reality’ that our one desire-our one absorbing heart-passion may be that we personally gain Christ-that we personally know Him as the apostle longed to do."
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"To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, ‘Come to me and rest’. But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them this same invitation is meant. Note well the words of Jesus, if you are heavy-laden with your service, and do not mistake it. It is not, ‘Go, labor on,’ as perhaps you imagine. On the contrary, it is stop, turn back, ‘Come to me and rest.’ Never, never did Christ send a heavy laden one to work; never, never did He send a hungry one, a weary one, a sick or sorrowing one, away on any service. For such the Bible only says, ‘Come, come, come.’
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"In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon."
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"You must GO forward on your knees."
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"All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they believed that God would be with them."
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"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."
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"Revival is the assemblies of God manifesting the oneness of the membership in the mystical, supernatural body of Christ, delivered from denominational bigotry."
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"Revival is the saints of God agonizing on behalf of lost souls going to hell."
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"Revival is the people of God living in the power of an ungrieved, unquenched Spirit."
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"Revival is the child of God desperately in love with his glorious Savior and Lord."
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"Revival is living the Christ life in the home."
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"Revival is the heathen saying, "The Lord hath done great things for them" (Psa. 126:2).
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"Revival is Zion travailing in spiritual childbirth."
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"Revival is the Church of God as a conquering army putting to rout the hosts of hell."
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"Revival is torrents of living water flowing out of the individual believer."
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"Revival is the beauty of holiness adorning the saints."
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"Revival is the recognition of the ministry of insignificant members of the body, and deliverance from idol worship of the more prominent members who are in the limelight."
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"Revival is restoring the years the locusts have eaten."
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"Revival is the people of God constrained, gripped, overmastered, and overwhelmed by the love of Christ, so that they are feverishly restless to win souls for Christ."
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"Revival is the whole assembly powerfully and passionately winning lost souls to Christ."
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John Ashbrook
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"Fundamentalism is the militant belief and proclamation of the basic doctrines of Christianity leading to a Scriptural separation from those who reject them."
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John Bunyan-(1628-1688). English preacher and writer.
John Bunyan (1628-1688) was an English preacher and writer. While imprisoned for preaching the Gospel without receiving permission from the Established Church, he wrote The Pilgrim's Progress.
"He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more."
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"If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot."
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"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart."
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"My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it."
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"One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner."
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"Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake."
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"There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair."
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"When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart."
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"Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air."
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“Religion is the best armor in the world, But the worst cloak.”
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"Read the Bible, and read it again, and do not despair of help to understand something of the will and mind of God, though you think they are fast locked up from you. Neither trouble yourself, though you may not have commentaries and expositions; pray and read, and read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from man."
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"Look how fears have presented themselves, so have supports and encouragements; yea, when I have started, even as it were at nothing else but my shadow, yet God, as being very tender of me, hath not suffered me to be molested, but would with one Scripture or another, strengthen me against all; insomuch that I have often said, Were it lawful, I could pray for greater trouble, for the greater comfort's sake. "
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"Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer."
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"Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan."
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John Calvin
"Popery is nothing else than a monster formed out of the innumberable deceptions of Satan, and that which they call the Church is more confused than Babylon."
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John Wesley
"What has exceedingly hurt you in time past, nay, and I fear to this day, is want of reading. I scarce ever knew a preacher read so little. And perhaps by neglecting it you have lost the taste for it. Hence your talent in preaching does not increase. It is just the same as it was seven years ago. It is lively, but not deep: there is little variety; there is no compass of thought. Reading only can supply this, with meditation and daily prayer. You wrong yourself greatly by omitting this. You can never be a deep preacher without it any more than a thorough Christian. O begin! Fix some part of every day for private exercises. You may acquire the taste which you have not; what is tedious at first will afterwards be pleasant. Whether you like it or no; read and pray daily. It is for your life; there is no other way; else you will be a trifler all your days, and a petty, superficial prayer" (John Wesley to John Trembeth, August 1760).
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"Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth."
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"The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness."
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"Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down."
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"Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone."
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"Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die-or if need be, to win and die! "The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force."
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"Some men will spin out a long prayer telling God who and what he is, or they pray out a whole system of divinity. Some people preach, others exhort the people, till everybody wishes they would stop, and God wishes so, too, most undoubtedly."
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John William Burgon
"Be zealous for the truth; be not ashamed to confess Christ; be bold on His behalf."
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"Either the whole Bible is inspired, the Words as well as the sentences, the syllables as well as the Words, the letters as well as the syllables, every 'jot' and every 'tittle' of it, or the whole of it must be abandoned, since no part of it can be certainly depended upon as an infallible guide."
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Jonathan Edwards
"Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected."
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"I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause."
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"Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life."
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"Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will."
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"Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious."
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"The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music."
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"The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted."
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"The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh."
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"There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and."
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"To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here."
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"True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will."
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"I wish to lie low before God, That I might be nothing, and that God might be all."
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"Let everything have the value now which it will have on a sick bed; and frequently, in my pursuits, of whatever kind, let this question come into my mind, How much shall I value this on my deathbed?"
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Matthew Henry- (1662-1714). English minister and Bible commentator.
1662-1714
English minister and Bible commentator
We as a church recommend Matthew Henry's Commentaries. Spurgeon said, "You will find him to be glittering with metaphors, rich in analogies, overflowing with illustrations, superabundant in reflections. Every minister ought to read Matthew Henry entirely and carefully through once at least." We say, "Amen". At the same time we disagree with Matthew Henry's doctrinal position concerning his allegorical interpretation of prophecy and his Protestant universal Church position.
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“Jesus Christ is the best clothing for Christians to adorn themselves with, to arm themselves with; it is decent, distinguishing, dignifying, and defending.”
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"Many years ago, Matthew Henry, a well-known Bible scholar, was once robbed of his wallet. Knowing that it was his duty to give thanks in everything, he meditated on this incident and recorded in his diary the following:
Let me be thankful, first, because he never robbed me before; second, because although he took my purse, he did not take my life; third, because although he took all I possessed, it was not much; and fourth, because it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed."
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“Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.”
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"Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth."
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"You may as soon find a living man without breath as a living saint without prayer."
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"The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!"
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"When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy. Then when you see the expected end approaching, then you shall call upon Me. Note, promises are given not to supersede, but to quicken and encourage prayer: and when deliverance is coming we must by prayer go forth to meet it. When Daniel understood the 70 years were near expiring, then he set his face with more fervency than ever to seek the Lord (Dan. 9:2, 3)."
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"It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12)."
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Mordecai Ham
"I had an overwhelming experience of the Lord's presence. I felt so powerfully overcome by the nearness of the Holy Spirit that I had to ask the Lord to draw back lest He kill me. It was so glorious that I couldn't stand more than a small portion of it."
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"There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in. And, until we get some of God's people right, we cannot hope to get sinners regenerated. Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in."
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"One of our troubles is we are not willing to humble ourselves. We are not willing to give up our opinions as to how things should be done. We want a revival to come just in our way. You never saw two revivals come just alike. We must let them come in God's way. People are ashamed to admit they need a revival. If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it."
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Oliver B. Greene-(1915-1976). American evangelist and author.
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R.A. Torrey-(1856-1928). American evangelist, pastor, and author.
"Prayer will do more than a college education to make the Bible an open and glorious book."
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“The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came...Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.”
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"We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results."
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Sam Morris-1900-1988
"The tomb of Christ is famous because of what it DOES NOT CONTAIN."
Sam Morris was for many, many years best known as "J. Barleycorn's No. 1 Enemy." He was proclaimed by the liquor industry as "the most valuable man to have entered the service of the drys in several generation." For years he successfully fought liquor on the strongest stations in America and Mexico on his "Voice of Temperance" radio broadcast.
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"You cannot preach all the Bible and stay off the liquor question. You either have to get on the liquor question or get off part of the Bible."
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"The man who manufactures or sells beer, wine, or whiskey, is selling a product that degrades, debauches, is detrimental and in many cases destroys his fellow man. He is not entitled to the respect of respectable people."
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"There never was a good man in the liquor business and never will be one. The very fact that he is intentionally in a bad business keeps that man from being a good man."
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Speaking about the Liquor Industry.
"Every once in a while some pious, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, spineless, yellow-backed, white-livered, thumb-sucking, toe-kissing, pusillanimous, pussy-footing, fence-straddling, pie-eating, biscuit-hunting, ham-and-egg preacher gets up and says, "Well, now, it's not the men we're fighting. It's the business." God bless you, brother, I fight the man as well as the business and if he doesn't want me to kick his shins, let him get out of the dirty, old low-down, lousy wicked business he is in. You can't separate a man from the character of the business he operates."
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"You cannot solve the liquor problem in ten million years by preaching the gospel to the drunks, because you have to do something with the traffic, as well as do something with the drunkards the traffic makes. That is the unfortunate weakness of Alcoholics Anonymous. I repeat: you have got to do something with the traffic, as well as something with the victims made by the traffic."
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"I have a moral responsibility to oppose the liquor traffic."
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"Freedom from the curse of the wicked, abominable liquor traffic and liberty from its bloody ravages upon innocent citizens, helpless wives and innocent little children is worth working and talking, preaching and praying and fighting for over and over and over."
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"Liquor breaks more homes, wrecks more lives, and damns more souls than any other curse in America."
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"I'd rather be a fool on fire, than a scholar on ice."
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"God's grip doesn't slip."
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"The next time the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future."
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THE CALL OF DEATH
What is this that I can't see?
With icy hands taking hold of me?
"I am Death; none can excel,
I open the doors to heaven and hell.
"I'll fix your feet so you can't walk,
I'll lock your jaws so you can't talk,
I'll shut your eyes so you can't see;
This VERY HOUR come go with me."
"O Mother, come to my bed,"
She placed a cold towel on his head,
"My head is hot, my feet are cold,
Death is putting shackles on my soul."
"You heard God's people sing and pray,
You would give no heed, but you walked away,
You would not give your hand and bow your knee,
But now you MUST come and go with me."
"Oh, Death, consider my age,
Please do not take me in this stage,
My wealth is all at your command,
If you'll just lift your icy hand."
"The old, the young, the rich, the poor,
They all alike with me must go;
No land, no silver, no wealth, no gold,
Nothing satisfies me but your soul."
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