| Quotes of the Day |
"All scholars shall live religious, godly, and blameless lives according to the rules of God's Word, diligently reading the Holy Scriptures, the fountain of light and truth; and constantly attend upon all the duties of religion, both in public and secret."
Regulations at Yale College
1745
"Christians are personally responsible for bringing the light of the gospel to darkened nations."
"Besides you, there is no one who is going to reach them."
Tigran Agamalian
"In a dark hole I have found pleasure; in a place of bitterness and death, rest and hope of salvation; in the abyss or depths of hell, joy; where others weep, I have laughed; where others fear, I have found strength; who will believe this?"
Algerius
teenager martyred A. D. 1557
"There is just one way to grow in the faith of God, in the knowledge of God, and that is by the study of God's Word."
"We cannot take one step toward God without making a great impression on others."
"Every Christian who has so much as a shadow between self and the Saviour; every Christian who has drifted even the slightest away from God and Christ; every Christian who has by any omission or commission grieved the Holy Spirit needs to repent."
"I wish we could find some new word, some new appeal as we go to plead with ourselves, to plead with our church members, to plead with each other to live holy, sacrificial, separated, spiritual lives, to express our Christianity in such manner and fashion that no one can doubt us."
"The Lord Jesus Christ has the power to keep a man continuing to walk in the newness of life, in the carrying on of a spiritual, scriptural, separated, sanctified activity as a Christian."
"An atomic bomb is almost needed to break into some of the cliques in our churches."
Hyman Appelman
1902-1983
"Jesus died for the church and He promised that the gates of hell would not prevail against the church and we would do well to channel all of our activities, all of our giving, all of our soul winning, all of our missionary work and all of our activities through the church."
Tommy Ashcraft
"Obeying God's Word deepens our relationship with Him."
"If you ever had to wait on God's timing and didn't want to, you didn't understand the goodness of God."
"Right now you are experiencing the very best for your life."
Tom Asher
"Now who can hear Christ declare that his kingdom is not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church and state together can be pleasing to him?"
"God is the only worthy object of all religious worship, and nothing can be true religion but a voluntary obedience unto His revealed will."
"As God is the only worthy object of all religious worship, and nothing can be true religion but a voluntary obedience unto His revealed will … every person has an unalienable right to act in all religious affairs according to the full persuasion of his own mind, where others are not injured thereby."
"And while I sat there, I was enabled by divine light to see the perfect righteousness of Christ and the freeness and riches of His grace, with such clearness, that my soul was drawn forth to trust in Him for salvation."
Isaac Backus
1724-1806
"Serving God in the house of the Lord is far better than anything the world could ever offer."
David Baker
"We are too blessed to be depressed: we have more to shout about than to pout about!"
"The moral structure of our nation is being corroded by the cancer of sin."
"God help us come back to the hour when we make our stand for the blessed old Book, the Book that men have lived by and died by."
Raymond Barber
"Hell is the eternal prison of the insane, soul-deluded religionists who had the hallucination that they could get to Heaven by morality, good works, church membership, confirmation, baptism-any way-but who rejected Christ's sure, simple directions."
"...consider the criminality of our 20th century Christianity that is not earnestly evangelizing sinners for the Saviour, iniquities that indict us with bloodguiltiness!"
"...when men, women and youth die unsaved, unprepared to meet God, but unwarned, unreached by Christians, their blood will be required at our hands!"
"When denominations, when churches, when individual Christians lose their vision, their passion, their purpose for soul winning: when they cease from their intercession and visitation for souls, you be sure the Lord God will write "Ichabod" over that ministry, take away the light of that testimony, and souls, as sheep without a shepherd, will become strayed, stolen, prey for every beast of the field: every ism, every sect, every cult that deceives, deludes and damns souls to a Devil's Hell!"
Fred M. Barlow
1921-1983
"Righteousness is only determined by the eternal Word of God."
Mike Bere
"You can't be a silent witness any more than you can be a sober drunk."
Robert J. Billings
"There is no sin that cannot be covered by God's grace."
Jim Bishop
"As I passed by the doors of the flaming sin palaces tonight I seemed to hear a voice sounding in my ears, 'Where can you go and find such heathen as these, and where is there so great a need for your labours?"
William Booth
1829-1912
"Negroes, their souls are as precious in ye light of God as any others."
Edmund Botsford
1745-1819
"Where there are a hundred men looking for the storm, there is one looking for the Lord."
"I like to go out into the highways and hedges and knock on this door and that and wonder what God is going to do, see whom God is going to save."
"The battlefield of this old world is filled with the wounded souls of pride."
Clyde Box
"Temptations are the bait in the devil's trap."
"I don't have to come back, but I do have to go."
"America needs to pray for its sick and not to kill them."
"Keep your line in the water."
"You cannot grow past your smallest sin."
"Preaching on Hell rips the cover off and brings people face to face with salvation."
"Although my legs and feet are breaking down, I am determined to continue to declare the graces of Jesus. If I cannot declare them standing up, I will declare them sitting down. If I cannot declare the graces of Jesus sitting down, then I will do it lying down. Wouldn't it be something to be able to rise up in the casket and shout: Repent! Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ!"
Joe Boyd
"Hold your fork, because something better is coming."
Ron Bragg
"I lift up one foot and it says, 'Glory!' and I lift the other foot and it says, 'Amen!' and so they keep on like that all the time I'm walking. If I were to go down to Hell I would shout, 'Glory! Glory!' unto my blessed Jesus until I made the bottomless pit ring again, and that miserable old Satan would say, 'Billy, Billy, this is no place for thee; get thee back.' Then up to Heaven I would go, shouting, 'Glory, glory, praise the Lord!'"
"If I was to go down to hell I would shout glory! glory! to my blessed Jesus until I made the bottomless pit ring again, and that miserable old Satan would say, 'Billy, Billy, this is no place for thee: get thee back!'"
Billy Bray
1794-1868
"It is not about our bank account."
"God wants His children to be concerned with holiness."
"The main reason believers worry is because we do not know God better."
Kirk Briscoe
"In the full knowledge of the consequences, under circumstances conducive to accepting Christ, millions today are premeditatedly, deliberately, with callused hearts, turning from Christ as the giver of life and committing spiritual suicide."
"As long as there is one vestige of human pride left in the heart of a man, it is impossible for him to be saved."
Fred Brown
1909-1992
"I can't do anything to make Him love me more ... or less."
Larry Brown
"You are willing to go anywhere, but are you willing to stay where you are?"
Mel Brown
"O the plausible pretences, the golden names, the feigned holiness, the demure behaviours, mixed with damnable hypocrisy, that attend the persons that have forsaken the Lord Jesus, that have despised his person, trampled upon him, and counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing!"
"Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin; would you, therefore, be fitted for afflictions, be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what afflictions soever you may meet with will be very easy to you."
"Much of your lives are past, and will you be slothful?"
"Sin is the dare of God's justice, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love."
"But this is the trap in which the devil hath caught many thousands of poor souls, namely, by getting them to judge according to outward appearance, or according to God's outward blessings."
"Christians are like the flowers in a garden, that have each of them the dew of Heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other."
"For had they but their thoughts well exercised about the shortness of this life, and the danger that will befall such as do miss of the Lord Jesus Christ, it would make them more wary and sober, and spend more time in the service of God, and be more delighted and diligent in inquiring after the Lord Jesus, who is the deliverer 'from the wrath to come'."
"When the devil tempts you, run home and tell your heavenly Father--go, pour out your complaints to God; this is natural to children; if any wrong them, they go and tell their father; so do those that are born of God, when they meet with temptations, go and tell God of them."
"The sensible sinner receiveth him joyfully."
John Bunyan
1628-1688
"And when I have gone to the last city and preached my last sermon, and when I have offered my last prayer for the last sinner, when this old body of mine is worn and ready to crumble back to dust, and when my loved ones have gathered around my bed and the death gurgle is heard in my throat, when the old world is receding and Heaven is opening a way, I stand in the presence of Him whom I have preached and loved and have not seen, I want the first one-thousand years to sit at His feet and say, 'Thank You, Jesus, for saving me that dark and stormy day from a drunkard's and a gambler's Hell."
E. Howard Cadle
1884-1942
"Our mission is to exhalt God and to impact people."
"Our biggest opportunity as Christians is prayer."
"It is impossible to praise God and be negative at the same time."
"What does God think when He sees us criticizing someone more than praying for them?"
Troy Campbell
"If Christ could stoop so low as to visit our ... sinful world, and be moved with compassion upon the most undeserving and guilty, the most sinful and depraved ... in what better way could we demonstrate that we are partakers of His grace than by earnest endeavor to imitate His example ... by laboring to promote the salvation of the most ignorant and helpless of mankind?"
"Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God."
"Missionaries however must knock loud and push hard at the door, and if there be the smallest opening, must force themselves in; and, once entered, put their lives in their hands and exert themselves to the utmost in dependence upon divine support, if they ever hope to do much towards evangelising the heathen world."
"I could only say, 'Hangs my helpless soul on thee;' and adopt the language of the first and second verses of the fifty-first Psalm, which I desired might be the text for my funeral sermon."
"If he give me credit for being a plodder he will describe me justly."
"If it be the duty of all men to believe the Gospel . . . then it be the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations."
William Carey
1761-1834
"It has always been a matter of profound surprise to me that anybody should ever question the verbal inspiration of the Bible."
"When you hear this silly talk that the Bible "contains" the word of God and is not the word of God, you hear fool's talk."
B. H. Carroll
1843-1914
"No matter how much people try to change it, get rid of it, or deny it, it will still remain just as God said."
Mickey P. Carter
"You can't reason your way into faith."
B. Myron Cedarholm
1915-1997
"Hence, dear brethren, remain at peace with one another; and you deacons, be a support to the ministers of the Word, and take their part; for they must blow the trumpet, that the drowsy may awake; and some drowsy people are of such a nature, that they do not like to be waked up: so also some that have become drowsy in sin do not like to be waked up."
Jacob the Chandler
1569
"God calculates forgiveness in infinite distances."
"As I think about the blood of Jesus Christ, I am thankful this morning that no one who really understands his need as a sinner, who really understands his need for atonement, will ever have to worry about the blood supply of Jesus Christ."
Paul Chappell
" ... modern Protestants have not only forgotten what Rome was, what she is, and what she will for ever be; the most irreconcilable and powerful enemy of the Gospel of Christ; but they consider her almost as a branch of the church whose corner stone is Christ ... "
Charles Chiniquy
1809-1899
"In America it is easy to presume upon God without depending upon Him."
"If I can push a broom, my pastor shouldn't have to."
"In Greek, the words "without ceasing" mean without ceasing."
Bob Christianson
"Jesus does not want to leave us alone in our misery."
"It does not matter if I am impressed, what matters is if Jesus is impressed."
"The church is God's support group for Christians."
"The praying Christian is in the center of God's protective hand."
"Set a mark and go forward."
"There is no situation worth you going into bitterness."
"There are more folks that will do wrong than do right."
"Commitment in the home must begin with a commitment to God."
"A happy home always has the right priorities."
"Don't let a failure make you fail."
"The average Christian will not win anyone this week."
"What you do with unpleasant experiences determines whether your life will be bitter or sweet."
"The need of the hour is to realize the Lord is with us."
"You can sing anywhere."
"Fear can be a motivating factor that moves us to panic."
"What He doesn't supply, I guess I don't need."
"If you are saved, you ought to be profitable to God."
"There are no visitation rights in hell."
"It is important that we learn to leave things with God."
"Isn't there something I can do?"
"Salvation is not found in the pope, the priest or a pastor, but it is found as the Bible says in the precious blood of Jesus Christ."
David Clear
"I guess you're just going to have to trust the Lord."
Elmer Clear
"I have never seen a time when alarm was higher, or consecration lower."
"No man ever got a vision of God and went away bragging."
Ron Comfort
"When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in the light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths, indicate clearly otherwise."
David L. Cooper
1886-1965
"Oh, may I spend my life to the praise and glory of His grace, Who worketh all things after the council of His own will."
John Corbley
1733-1803
"One word makes the difference between those who are grateful and those who are not: think."
Kevin Cowling
"'Cool' is the temperature of God's vomit."
"If you get excited about serving the Lord, you won't have to practice separation - everyone else will."
"Maybe it's time we got excited."
Pete Cowling
"Have a passion, and make it Jesus."
Robert Crane
"There is only One who can forgive us our sins, cleanse us of our sins and take away all the guilt complex, and that One is Jesus!"
"Make sure you know Jesus first of all in the salvation of your soul and in the pardon of your sins, then learn to bring every need to Him and trust Him to supply your need!"
"Neighbor, I believe we can say conservatively that there are still thousands of God-called, true-to-the-Book preachers and churches that have not yet sold out to the Devil! "
Bruce D. Cummons
"The question, whether inspiration extended to the very words of revelation, as well as to the thoughts and reasoning, is answered by Paul: "We preach, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth."
John L. Dagg
1794-1884
"The Creator can deal with the creation as He sees fit."
Jimmy DeYoung
"When I hear the same man, yet not the same, because he has been transformed by grace, praising God for redemption through the blood of Christ, I say, 'Hallelujah! Hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!'"
"He who obeys the command 'rejoice in the Lord,' has a hallelujah in his soul every minute of the day and night."
"There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to praise God, for 'all things work together for good to them that love God.'"
A. C. Dixon
1854-1925
"I'm glad we still have some preachers that's got backbone enough to get up and preach the truth."
W. E. Dowell
1914-2000
"We don't know what is going on in the hearts of people we pass by every day."
Mark Etherington
"(My) line should not be of fine silk but of strong thread interwoven with the hemp of truth and dipped in the spirit of prayer, for what was wanted was not something nice to look at, but a line with a hook on one end to bite."
"Don't weep for me. Forty and eight years have I ministered in the sanctuary. But I have never ministered without blood in the basin."
Christmas Evans - to friends while he lay dying
1766-1838
"Fear is the greatest crippler in all history."
"Sin is no respecter of persons."
"I'd rather be a prude than a casualty."
"Make Jesus the center of your life, and the circumference will take care of itself."
"Behind every tragedy of human character there is a progress of evil thinking."
"Don't start going together too soon: it's not love, it's biology and chemistry and won't make good literature, and soon will be history."
"If you really look at Jesus it will do something for you."
Wendell Evans
"All of creation is a finger pointing and saying 'Here is the glory of God'."
"I am an errand boy for Jesus Christ."
Tom Farrell
"You will not be used of God till you have a giant that you cannot conquer, till you have an obstacle that's so big that you say, 'God, I'm not able to,' till you see an obstacle and you say, 'There's no way I can do it.'"
Elmer Fernandez
"There is an evil day before us in which the Evil One will try to get us to fall."
Doug Fisher
"Based on the many testimonies given to me by young people and adults alike, I am convinced beyond any doubt that the possession of the Lord's best is frequently sacrificed on the altar of the world's music."
Frank Garlock
"All you have to do is to sow the seed; some of it will fall on good ground and bear good fruit, and some of it will be wasted - but our command remains the same."
"Trust the Lord and tell the people."
"It is our prayer and hope that the Jewish people - who still are God's own people and forever will remain so - will turn their backs on the false shepherds and turn their faces to the True Shepherd."
Jacob Gartenhaus
1896-1984
"In your mind it's 'not me'."
David C. Gibbs, Jr.
"Brazil is being degraded by the craftiness and intrigues of the Roman Church just as has been the case with all people, nations and tribes that have come under its baneful influence."
"You see, I am a Baptist and we Baptists do not accept orders in matters of religion from any civil authority, neither from you, nor the governor of the state nor even from the president of the republic."
"The saddest thing of all is the fact that Christ’s love and free offer of pardon is not known."
"Oh, how they strive to save themselves and to pacify their troubled consciences, but all to no avail, for only Jesus pardons and forgives and saves!"
Solomon L. Ginsburg
1867-1927
"You can't spell GOSPEL without GO first."
Marvin Gochenour
"Jesus, while suffering on the cross, wept and prayed for his persecutors."
Bruce Goddard
"Make sure Christ fills your life."
"Satan wants a place in your life."
Charlie Graves
"I can think of no greater need today than for the church to be accused of turning the world upside down."
"It is not so much what we profess but what we practice that determines our real devotion to Christ."
"Moral cowardice is the curse of the ministry in our generation."
Bob Gray
"Laziness and unconcern will not win a city to Christ."
Bob (Robert Glen) Gray
"Beloved, let the fact of what our Lord suffered for you grip you, and you will never again be the same."
Oliver B. Greene
1915-1976
"I am in your hands; do with me, whatever God will permit you to do; you can take from me no more than my life."
Offrus Greizinger
1538
"Our Christianity is too much a matter of words and far too little a matter of works."
"One might think that works were of the Devil by the assiduity with which the great proportion of church members keep clear of them."
"I know John 3:16 and that's good enough holding-ground for my anchor."
"I pray that God will speedily make manifest to these poor brethren of ours that light which is the light of life, even Jesus Christ, our living Lord."
George Grenfell
1849-1906
"There have been times I've disappointed the Lord, but He has never let me down."
"The most miserable person in the world is a person who is saved who knows what it is to walk with the Lord, and then walks away."
"The only real friends you will ever have outside of God, are your Christian friends."
"You can leave the church without leaving the church."
"Pick up the pieces and give them to God and let Him love you."
"When we go to a far country, it breaks the heart of God."
"The devil knows he can't get our salvation, so he goes after our joy."
"Don't compromise your convictions."
"It doesn't take long for your flesh to let you down."
"The devil paints some great pictures."
Chris Haizlip
"He who denies the virgin birth denies Bible Christianity, smites the mother of our Lord with shame, snatches the crown of deity from His brow, strips Him of His sinless humanity, makes His cross a blood-stained failure and bids us face eternity with no light in the darkness."
I. M. Haldeman
1845-1933
"Our Lord has called us to be fishers of men and we don't have time to waste."
Bill Hall
"There can be nothing clearer, as an all-inclusive proposition, than that no Christian church of any sect can tolerate dancing by its communicants; for nothing is plainer than that no dancer can be a Christian."
"Cain was offering his good deeds and it was a bloodless offering."
Mordecai Ham
1877-1961
"Heaven used to seem a place a long way off; but since Mother has gone there, it seems so much more real to me, and a lot closer."
"Every time some misfortune comes, the Devil will try to use it to upset our faith and cause us to doubt God."
"I tell you, when we really believe that souls are lost and that truth is pressed home to us to the extent that our hearts break, people are going to get saved."
"The yoke of Jesus is always easy for the true sheep, but it will rub a goat's neck raw."
"The reason the world is going to hell is that not enough people care."
"The hardest task anybody ever had is to win unsaved people over a crowd of ungodly church members ... People are going to Hell by the millions that way, stumbling over inconsistent church members!"
"But there is no place on earth where God gets as close and is as real as in the house of God."
"Let us let the world know that we still believe in the religion of Christ; that we still believe it can solve every problem of the human race; that we still believe that the greatest thing on earth is to follow God and live for God; that we still believe that Christ can make human life glorious, wonderful and worthwhile."
Joe Henry Hankins
1889-1967
‘Farewell, ye saints, farewell;
What, if I meet this end!
Ere long the Lord shall come,
Our only Leader, Friend:
Joyous I wait the glorious day,
With you to walk in white array.’
sung by Gerrit Hase-poot at his martyrdom
1500's
"There is no greater hindrance to revival than a comfortable pastor settled and satisfied, coasting along until he reaches retirement, who does not want his flock disturbed or the status quo upset."
"They didn’t ‘hold’ revivals in those days, they turned them loose!"
"There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home."
"I was converted during an old-fashioned revival - not a modern, fashionable, harmless little revival, but an old-fashioned revival that stirred the saints and saved sinners and set the angels rejoicing and put the devil’s program in reverse... where ‘grace taught our hearts to fear and grace our fears relieved; how precious did that grace appear the hour we first believed!'"
"I thank God that my God is an eye opener."
Vance Havner
1901-1986
"If it will be a success it is God's success, not mine."
Robert Hawkins
"We need to press on because the work of our God is great."
A. V. Henderson
"Trust and obey is the first law of spiritual progress."
Harold Henniger
"We have the freedom to go and do whatever God wants us to do."
"Authorities are sinners too, but they are still the authority."
"If we lose on marriage we lose ... if we don't stand on marriage, we don't stand."
"We get caught up in things and think that things make us successful."
"Only God can solve men's problems."
"A brand new Christian gave out a tract today, have you?"
"It is God's business to save them, but they are not going to be saved unless they hear it."
"Be assured if you are trying to do something for God, the devil is trying to destroy you."
"I can't disciple unless I myself am a disciple."
"One of the most dangerous things we can do is to proclaim with the lips and then live for the devil with our lives."
"It is only by the grace of God that any of our children turn out for the Lord."
Carl Herbster
"All of us need to grow in our hatred for sin."
"No man is greatly used until he is greatly humbled before the Lord."
"All of us have the potential for powerful, personal revival."
"Do not get so focused on serving that you forget to be satisfied with God."
"We should care about our thoughts, because God does."
"Your griping tells everyone what you are made of."
Mark Herbster
"There is no love if there is no discipline."
Mike Herbster
"When I have considered others under these circumstances, I have thought it very dreadful; but now God hath called me to it ... I can cheerfully embrace it as an easy passage to glory; and though death separates from the enjoyments of each other here, it will be for a very short time, and then we shall meet in such enjoyments as now we cannot conceive of, and forever enjoy each other’s happiness."
Benjamin Hewling
1664-1685
"As for the world, there is nothing in it to make it worth while to live, except we may be serviceable to God therein."
William Hewling
1667-1685
"As the strokes fell upon me, I had such a spiritual manifestation of God's presence, as the like thereof I never had nor felt, nor can with fleshly tongue express, and the outward pain was so removed from me, that indeed I am not able to declare it to you, it was so easy to me, that I could well bear it, yea, and in a manner, felt it not, although it was grievous, as the spectators said, the man striking with all his strength (yea, spitting in his hands three times, as many affirmed) with a three corded whip, giving me therewith thirty strokes."
Obadiah Holmes, Baptist preacher whipped in Massachusetts in 1659
1609-1683
"All Americans are spoiled, just some more than others."
Derek Hopkins
"You need the lifestyle, but you need to confront people with the gospel in a kind and compassionate way."
Charlie Horton
"We teach that none of the true children of God - the believing, the pardoned, the regenerated, the sanctified - become apostate, but to backsliding, of every character and degree, all, it is but too evident, even the best, and most devoted, are constantly, and painfully liable."
Robert Boyce Crawford Howell
1801-1868
"The Lord's will is not a mystery."
Baron Howerton
"There is a natural inclination on the part of many preachers to give people what they like instead of what they need."
Walter Hughes
1890-1975
"Life is too short to go through it with bitterness."
"Man's greatest problem is spiritual, and that is why we need a Saviour."
"The Lord is seldom early, but never late."
"Wisdom is the ability to look at all of life through God's eyes."
"Jesus went to the cross because God is holy and sin must be punished."
John K. Hutcheson, Sr.
"In the religious world, when we deliberately reject revealed truth and won't obey what we know is right, darkness comes; and that leads to ungodly, loose living."
"The area is not gospel hardened, it is gospel ignorant."
"The average Christian lives and dies and never has the foggiest idea of how holy and righteous God really is."
"Jesus Christ was God’s Christmas Gift, and God never gives anything but the best!"
"When we are truly grateful, even the bitter things in life taste sweet."
"A lot of sins committed today are a result of a lack of genuine gratitude in the heart."
"If somehow we could see the extreme importance of winning souls to Christ, I believe that we would go to any extreme short of violating the Scriptures in order to get sinners saved."
"God give us in government some born-again, blood-washed believers who have a backbone made of iron and a will of steel, who will govern by Bible principles and who will stand up for the right things in this country."
"If America gets right with God, it will be when we as individuals get right with God."
Curtis Hutson
1934-1995
"Teaching is an accumulation of facts, but preaching brings people to a decision."
"We won't see God's fire fall unless we provide a sacrifice."
"The fire won't fall if you are worried about your future."
Tony Hutson
"Bol, Visu Masih, Ki Jah - Shout the victory of Jesus Christ!"
John Hyde "Praying Hyde" - Missionary to India - to friends while he lay dying
1865-1912
"God is looking for enough salt that is savoured in a nation so He can spare that nation from destruction."
"Heaven is like a mother who lovingly, kindly and spiritually, with the fragrance and sweet smell of Heaven, goes about her tasks every day; loving and being loved, caring for and being cared for, and doing the tasks that a mother ought to do."
"God especially loves the widows."
"One of the sweetest things in all of the Bible is the tenderness of God."
"God didn't call you for self-defense, He called you for His defense."
"Build a friendly church: the invitation begins at the door."
"You have already been commanded to be a missionary."
"Ladies and gentlemen, if we get to the place where we memorize this Bible and dot every fundamental i and cross every fundamental t and find out exactly who the Antichrist is and win all the battles we have to win, if we lose our tears, we have lost our right to exist!"
"The same Devil that put these Christians into lions' mouths and in flames of fire is still alive today."
"Do not just come to church Sunday morning, pay your respects to God and drop your collection in the offering plate, but live for Christ and live in the Bible every day of the year, every hour of the day, every minute of the hour, every little second!"
"Learn to feed from a different trough."
Jack Hyles
1926-2001
"The bombs and missiles can change the leaders, but only Jesus Christ can change the people there."
Iraqi evangelist
"Then was I led to cry to God to grant me that divine faith which I could not produce in myself."
"Having ventured all on Christ, I determined to suffer all for him."
James Ireland
1748-1806
"On Judgment Day, everyone will be a believer."
"As His child, you have access to all that is God."
Daniel Irvin
"Everything that Jesus did while He was here, He did it for you."
"It has never been popular to take a stand for God."
Maze Jackson
1923-1996
"I then learned an important lesson: that one who has been the subject of converting grace and is the child of God can, in the midst of the severest sufferings, fix his thoughts upon God and heavenly things, and derive great comfort and peace; but that one who had never made his peace with God would be unable to control his mind, under such sufferings, so as to understand properly the way of salvation, and repent and believe on Christ."
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
1824-1863
"I’m so sinful, I find it hard to do right; but my God don’t lie and he ain’t put no lie in the Book of eternal truth, and if I give you what the Bible says, then I’m bound to tell the truth."
[On being born again]: "If you is what you was, you ain't."
John Jasper
1812-1901
"Because I know Him, I owe Him."
Dave Jaspers
"Nothing can keep me from sharing the gospel, because God has given me and you the power of the gospel."
"My Lord Jesus Christ died for me on the cross, and how can I to keep my mouth shut?"
"People all over the world have one common characteristic: a need for salvation."
Henry John - Indian church planter
"Parents are the primary educators of their children."
"We never retire from serving God."
"In this world it is easy to get out of touch with God."
"It is a smart thing to fear God."
"We are not being unkind when we contend for the faith."
"Learn the value of praying: God will hear and answer."
"Most Christians spend their lives in wading pools, paddling around in shallow water."
"God uses men, but the men must be usable."
"In the Lord's work neutral men are the devil's allies."
'Any time God says "Go Forward", the devil says "Stand Still".'
"Since I am His child, nothing can happen to me that does not first pass the throne of God."
"Satan does not want you here at church."
"You ought never make key decisions based solely on outward circumstances."
"There is no event on God's prophetic calendar that must take place before the return of Jesus Christ."
"Nothing can shake or change the Word of God."
"It is one thing to trust God for the present moment, it is another thing to trust God for the unknown future."
"Don't let the devil's crowd ruin your life."
"All the money in the world won't fix a public school philosophy that is rotten - corrupt to the core."
"A life that proves the reality of your faith is a great defense."
"We have the same Holy Spirit as Paul."
"Soulwinning must become a passion before it becomes a program."
"The Lord is keeping heaven for us and keeping us for heaven."
Ed Johnson, Jr.
"Young man, attend to the voice of one who has possessed a certain degree of fame in the world, and who will shortly appear before his Maker: Read the Bible every day of your life."
Samuel Johnson
1709-1784
"There are no little things, everything is big to God."
"We need to be willing and ready to be used of God right where He has placed us."
Tim Johnson
"Do right if the stars fall!"
Bob Jones Sr.
1883-1968
"Lord, I hope you won't listen to a one of these preachers. They don't preach against sin, they don't visit door to door, they don't weep over sinners and they don't win souls. And they want You to change me until I'm most like one of them! O Lord, help these preachers to have sense enough to realize that if You were to answer their prayers I would be just as worthless and no account as they are! Please God, don't make me like any of these fellers."
Sam Jones
1847-1906
"O Lord, thou art forever in my thoughts."
Joost Joosten
burnt alive for his faith at Veer, in Zealand, 1560
"You learn to be independent by submitting to rules."
James Jorgenson
"Christians let three fourths of the world sleep ... ignorant of the simple truth that a Savior died for them."
"The future is a bright as the promises of God."
Adoniram Judson
1788-1850
"To find God's will, you must first lose your will."
Daniel Kaighen
"The Ministers Maintenance, tho it is not by Tythes, &c. as under the Law, yet they have now as just a right to a comfortable Maintenance as they had then, the equity of the Duty is the same: Our Saviour, saith Dr. Owen, and the Apostles plead it from grounds of Equity and Justice; and all kind of Laws and rules of Righteousness among Men of all sorts call for it."
"They pray for their daily Bread, and will they not pray to have the Bread of Life plentifully broken to them?"
Benjamin Keach
1640-1704
"If you want fire, get it from the Book!"
"To make a great preacher it takes more than lip, it takes life."
"Is the goal of our ministry to win the argument or win the man?"
"The best thing you can do is agree with God Almighty and say, Yes, Lord, I want Your will to be done."
Bob Kelley
"The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness, 'a lantern to his feet and a lamp unto his paths.' He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation."
Francis Scott Key
author of the words to the "Star-Spangled Banner"
"Someone's morality will prevail."
Randall King
"This is nothing strange to me, for it was told me in the beginning of my conversion, that I must expect to die for the testimony of the truth; but it does seem strange to me, that the lords of Venice concur in such a purpose, and do not consider or weigh, that at the last day they will have to give an account before God, for innocent blood."
Julius Klampherer
former priest, upon hearing his death sentence pronounced in 1561
"In which removings I gained great experiences of God’s faithfulness, goodness and truth, in His great and precious promises; and I have gained some experience of my own heart’s deceitfulness and the power of my own corruptions, and the reigning power of Christ, and His captivating and subduing my sins - making conquests of the devil, world, and sin, and then giving me the victory, and canting me to triumph, and to bless His holy name ... I would not want [to have missed] those experiences and teachings that my soul hath enjoyed for all that I ever suffered."
Hanserd Knollys
1599-1691
"Yes, God can calm the storm, but sometimes He calms His child in the storm."
Roy Knowlton
"Thanks be to God for his daily blessings and his extraordinary deliverances."
David Kuykendall
"If you don't think you are in a battle, you are either lost or AWOL."
Al Lacey
"I am always glad when fall comes, when saints get back in their clothes, if not in their right minds."
"He divested himself of all the robes of riches and came over the embattlements of heaven and down the golden stairway, and came into this world by way of a barn door and went out by way of an old rugged cross."
"It seemed to me that Jesus Christ came down the aisle with a cross on His back, and with a crown of thorns on His Head, and with spital and slime running down his face. ‘What can I do for you?’ He asked. ‘Lord, do for me that which I cannot do for myself,’ I cried. "
"You won't have any trouble with any of the miracles of the Bible when you place God positionally where He belongs - in the beginning."
"If these could know Him, it would not seem unreasonable to believe that we for whom Christ died should be able to know Him personally, positively, intimately."
"Affliction is a moral gymnasium where God's children are conditioned for the race of life."
"If we could see the end from the beginning, as God does, we would laugh through our tears to see the wonderful improvement which our heavenly Father's chastisement works in our lives."
"The moment I leave here, I will be present with Him."
B. R. Lakin
1901-1984
"There is so much wood, hay and stubble in our hearts that we daily are tempted to construct monuments to self with this material."
Mark Landolt
"When this world rises, and opposes Thy words, so that our soul sighs to Thee in all severe distresses by which they seek to tear us away, then, O Lord, grant us to look to Thee for aid, and help us to overcome."
Hans Langmantel with his manservant and maidservant, in a written exhortation before their martyrdom in Germany
1529
"Your life is preaching what you believe."
"Our religion is made up too much of our peer group's religion."
"You always back up what you believe by doing it."
"Satan doubts the depth of God's love because he is so wrapped up in himself."
Carl Laurent
"It is the conviction of all who have proved the faithfulness of God that nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God."
"There is nothing so necessary in the lives of churches and individuals today as earnest, continued, importunate prayer."
"King Ahab had command of a nation's wealth and a nation's army, but he had no command of his lusts and appetites."
"If we emphasize little the old familiar notes of Calvary, of hell, of sin ... we sound our death knell, dig our grave, write our epitaph."
"And the only way I know for any man or woman on Earth to escape the sinner's payday on Earth and the sinner's hell beyond -- making sure of the Christian's payday on Earth and the Christian's heaven beyond, the Christian's payday -- is through Christ Jesus, who took the sinner's place upon the Cross, becoming for all sinners all that God must judge, that sinners through faith in Christ Jesus might become all that God cannot judge."
"And when I see Ahab fall in his chariot and when I see the dogs eating Jezebel by the walls of Jezreel, I say, as the Scripture saith: '0, that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments; then had thy peace been like a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea!'"
"And as I remember that the gains of ungodliness are weighted with the curse of God, I ask you, 'Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not?'"
"We learn as we think of her death that the stag followed by hungry hounds with open mouths is far more happy than the woman who is pursued by her sins, that the bird taken in the fowler's net and laboring to escape is far more happy than she who has woven about herself a web of deception, that yon eagle beating against brass bars is far happier than the woman whose sin stares at her from dark rooms at midnight, and that the wild animal caught and suffering in the jaws of a steel trap is far happier than he who carries a guilty conscience in his bosom!"
"The Cross is the key to peace."
"Oh! I wish I could tell all men and women and all boys and girls everywhere to believe the truth that Satan always pays in counterfeit money, that all his pearls are paste pearls, that the nectar he offers is poisoned through and through."
R. G. Lee
1886-1978
"It is all God's for the taking."
Steven Leeper
"It is error, and error alone, that needs human support; and whenever men fly to the law or sword to protect their system of religion and force it upon others, it is evident that they have something in their system that will not bear the light and stand upon the basis of truth."
"... Nothing is more plain, than that the Almighty has set up the government of the United States .... Had such a government existed, from the beginning of the Christian era, what rivers of blood--what shocking havoc--how much imprisonment, confiscation, exile, torture and burning, would have been prevented! ... The notion of excluding religion from legislation, first arose in Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, in their colonial capacities; and has, since the revolution, been interwoven in the government of the United States."
John Leland
1754-1841
"Just about everyone has troubles."
"A crucified man is only looking one direction, he isn't going back, and he has no future plans for his own."
Paul Levin
1915-1996
"If you knew for certain that your days on earth were numbered, would you not want to spend more time in prayer?"
"In every life, for every good resolve, for every decision to do right, God says, 'Today.' And in every life, for every good resolve and every noble decision, Satan whispers, 'Tomorrow.'"
John Linton
1888-1965
"Nothing good or great has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm."
David Livingstone
1813-1873
"It is not so important that we cover the scriptures, but that we uncover the scriptures."
Joe Lopez
"Fill the present with quiet faith, with patient waiting, with honest work, with wise reading of God's lessons of nature, of providence, and of grace, all of which say to us, Live in God's future, that the present may be bright; and work in the present, that the future may be certain!"
Alexander Maclaren
1826-1910
"The blood of Christ is God's guarantee that He has put the sins of the believer behind His back eternally."
"It is a sin for you and me to claim to be a church, a New Testament Bible-believing church, and not see people saved."
"When Christ died on the cross of Calvary, He died with you and me in mind."
"Since there is a possibility for everyone to be saved, the Bible says that we are to pray for all men."
"Many Christians today have surrendered to problems which could have been conquered by getting alone with God."
"Oh, that we would, in time of trouble, wait at the throne of grace until God's answer comes!"
"There is a sweet and blessed confidence that comes to the heart of a Christian when he knows he is doing God's work in God's way."
"Yes, two-by-two soulwinning from house to house is God's greatest method of New Testament evangelism."
"I have been so thrilled to learn in recent years that most of the great promises of the Word of God were given to the saints in times of great distress or while they were in the depths of sorrow or in the fires of hot persecution."
"One of the most popular gods in the world today is Bacchus, the awful god of drink."
"People know the Lord Jesus as Savior, but we need to know Him as a friend and sanctifier, as an advocate, as our coming King, as our constant companion and friend."
"I am a fan of Jesus, and have been for going on sixty-two years, and I believe every word, every word that the Lord has ever said about anything in His book."
Tom Malone
"And thus I close with this that I will firmly adhere to Christ, and trust in Him, who is acquainted with all my needs, and can deliver me out of it."
Felix Mantz
A. D. 1526
"Is God finished calling missionaries out of this congregation, to reach this dark world?"
"If God has called you, he has already gifted you."
"The world is not evangelized."
"If you do not do what God has called you to do, how can you hear a 'well-done'?"
"Obeying the mission call is not throwing away your life, it is finding your life."
Jim Mardis
"One of the most dangerous things you can do is to look at your life and assume that you have so many supports and safeguards that you don't have to pay any attention to the Holy Spirit."
"While father is a general manager who sets the direction and tone for the team, mother is the coach whose day-by-day training and inspiration will determine how effective the team is in reaching its goals."
Arthur Maricle
"Are you living in the likeness of His death, or in the likeness of His resurrection?"
Steven E. Mays
"The truth must be defended anew in every generation."
Michael D. McCubbins
"Someday, when in the presence of our Saviour, we will thank Him for every burden, every trial, and every heartache."
J. Vernon McGee
1904-1988
"No man is ready to live until he is prepared to die."
Jim Mercer
"It's a funny thing how many people will come to church if you wear your knuckles out."
Clint Miller
"You don't have a loved one so far away from God that what your prayers can be answered by God and get somebody saved."
Dean Miller
"Good works is the goal of our salvation."
Jan Milton
"The work belongs to God."
"No one is impossible to get along with."
"Everyone will rise or fall to their own integrity level."
Judson Mitchell
"Let every one of us try to get one soul."
Dwight L. Moody, with six years of schooling, preached to fifty million people in forty years
1837-1899
"If the Macedonians could give in a great trial of affliction and deep poverty, everybody can give something."
Fred Moritz
"In a person so supernatural, the virgin birth was natural."
R. L. Moyer
1886-1944
"Just because you believe the Bible doesn't mean you are going to heaven." "There's no mercy in hell. You don't have any timeouts. There are no exit doors."
"If your skin is thin you are riddled by sin."
"Quit riding the pine and start living for God."
"Every day we ought to ask ourselves: 'Am I right where I am supposed to be?'"
Darrell Murphy
"We are in a dark world, but the Bible will guide us through as a light shining on the way."
"The work of the Lord centers around building local churches."
"If you want God's direction, you must walk close to Him."
"You have no right to choose a profession without asking God what He wants you to do to fulfill your debt, and you need to be personally involved in world evangelization no matter what your profession."
"The work of the Lord centers around local churches being established."
Ed Nelson
"My memory is nearly gone; but I remember two things: That I am a great sinner, and that Christ is a great Saviour."
John Newton
1725-1807
"If there is no cross here, there may not be a crown there. Use your problems to promote the purposes of God."
Hans A. Nikoley
"You keep thinking back and you will be missing what God has for you ahead."
Gary Norberg
"And the most tragic statement in the whole Bible is this: 'And the door was shut.'"
"There is literal sorrow, literal death, literal Hell, and, thank God, there is a literal Heaven."
"What is needed is a school that will teach a man how to go out with the Bible under his arms, faith in his heart, and in the power of the Holy Spirit begin in a vacant lot and build a church to the glory of God."
"If you get the great inside meaning of the death of Christ you have the whole Bible plan of salvation."
J. Frank Norris
1877-1952
"The Lord would not leave mankind destitute of the hope of gaining eternal life."
Jim Norton
"Our God - He is the Lord - as much today as He was then."
"Rebellion is starting at an earlier age, but so is music awareness."
"God is not going to bless us for moving the mark."
Gary Ohlemacher
"Our ministry direction is not determined by what we teach, but by what we tolerate."
Les Ollila
"Every Baptist a missionary."
Johan Gerhard Oncken
1800-1884
"If a Christian will avoid sin, he will not have to resist the sin, and that will keep the Christian from committing sin."
"Christian character is the subconscious doing of right."
"For success, add reading God's Word and following the prompting of God's Spirit to build character."
Jeff Owens
"He loves the whole world; when He gives, He gives the best He has."
"If fifty percent of members in the average Baptist church would get saved, we would have a national revival."
"Men invent all kinds of cults and false systems in their effort to throw conviction aside."
Monroe Parker
1909-1994
"All the skepticism of Europe would hide its head in foolish shame; and all its doubts would dissolve under one glance of the new light that Jesus, and Jesus alone, pours from the converted Cannibal's eye."
"If thus thrown back upon your own soul, alone, all, all alone, in the midnight, in the bush, in the very embrace of death itself, have you a Friend that will not fail you then?"
John G. Paton
1824-1907
"And there the Lord opened the sense of my unbelief that I might at last remember my sins and be converted with all my heart to the Lord my God, who had regard for my abjection, and mercy on my youth and ignorance, and watched over me before I knew Him, and before I was able to distinguish between good and evil, and guarded me, and comforted me as would a father his son."
"For I am very much God's debtor, who gave me such grace that many people were reborn in God through me and afterwards confirmed, and that clerics were ordained for them everywhere, for a people just coming to the faith, whom the Lord took from the utmost parts of the earth, as He once had promised through His prophets: To Thee the gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth and shall say: `How false are the idols that our fathers got for themselves, and there is no profit in them'; and again: `I have set Thee as a light among the gentiles, that Thou mayest be for salvation unto the utmost part of the earth.'"
"In the light, therefore, of our faith in the Trinity I must make this choice, regardless of danger I must make known the gift of God and everlasting consolation, without fear and frankly I must spread everywhere the name of God so that after my decease I may leave a bequest to my brethren and sons whom I have baptised in the Lord---so many thousands of people."
St. Patrick
born about 385 A. D.
"Two things the brethren will not forgive you for: failure and success."
Gene Perriraz
"Whosoever perverts the oracles of the Lord ... he is the first-born of Satan."
"Eighty and six years have I served Christ and He has done me nothing but good; how then could I curse Him, my Lord and Saviour?"
Polycarp
69-156
"But down yonder in a place called Hell on an abandoned island of despair, where no light ever shines, no friends ever come, where hope is gone and despair is forever, where the blanket of despair has been thrown over the door and the chains of everlasting night bind the doors forever - on that island men are crying, "Lost! Lost! Lost!"
Dolphus Price
1919-2004
"There is one appointment you will never be late for."
"What are you doing to answer a prayer from hell?"
Mark Priem
"God knows that if people begin to dress like the world in scant attire and lose their "blush," that they will soon fall and find themselves doing things God never intended."
"It seems that some have just enough religion to innoculate them against a good case of happy salvation! "
"Let us hasten to tell others about Jesus so they, too, can have a real Thanksgiving."
"The way to be unhappy is to be ungrateful."
Hugh F. Pyle
"I tremble for some of you, fearing you are too negligent, and make our Master's work too much a by-business"
"O, beware of it, I pray you; for we are called out from the world, and from every people under heaven; and our prosperity wholly depends on our following our heavenly Leader; and if we do not, God will raise him another people, and we shall sink as others have done before us."
"It seemed as if there never was any person so vile as I, nor any one possessed of such heart alienation, and enmity to God in all his nature, and to the manifestations of his spirit and power; no one that felt such unreconciliation to God, in every sense of the word."
"Let us, I pray you, have a strife among us, not "Who shall be the greatest?" but who shall be the least of all-who shall be the humblest-who shall be the most of a servant-who shall lay the lowest at the feet of Jesus-who shall bring forth the most fruit to the glory of God?"
"See to it, that we do not get any new-fangled, heady, wordy, tonguey doctrine of men, which leads from Christ instead of leading to him."
"If I had my life to live over again, I would be more zealous than I ever have been."
Benjamin Randall
1749-1808
"The Declaration of Independence is a wonderful document, it is one of the most precious documents in the archives of Washington, it gives us our freedom, but yet, let me tell you that document is circumvented and equated and confined to this life and to this life only."
Chester E. Ratliff
1920-1995
"I could care less what the wishes of the people are, I want to know what God wants."
"Have a ministry that will warn them and give them something worth living for."
John Rawlings
"No one can be right with God and wrong with his pastor, brother or family."
Mike Ray
"Just because you don't believe in hell doesn't mean that there isn't a hell."
"If you don't believe in hell, that don't change it."
Percy Ray
1910-1991
"Every sin has death in it."
Dan Reed
"God loved the whole world so much that He provided a way of salvation for every single man and woman and boy and girl, and any person who is willing to be saved can be saved."
"Who, for your own sake and for the sake of those you love, will turn from your sins to Jesus?"
"Any pleasure that would keep you from Christ is a sinful pleasure that will doubtless cause you anguish, heartache, tears and remorse."
"Character is doing right without regard to inward desire, outward pressure, or eventual outcome."
"Perhaps nothing in the world so hinders the work of the Lord Jesus Christ as does the fussing and fighting of our churches."
"Many an individual has a cold heart, a barren life, a ruined testimony because of an unwillingness to humbly confess sins."
"To hear some people talk, one would think that being a Christian is little better than being in prison or being hog-tied and hobbled."
"We need hell-fire and damnation 'cut it out' preaching."
Bill Rice
1912-1978
"Don't apologize for your convictions."
Bill Rice III
"To leave this matter of saving souls to preachers is not only heartless; it is inexcusably wicked."
"What a compelling motive we have for prayer, for preaching, for soul winning when we learn that every responsible human being who leaves this world without a definite change in heart, immediately lifts his eyes in Hell, tormented in flame!"
"His brokenhearted cry on the cross, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do," shows God's heart toward sinners."
"We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime."
"Put bread before the family."
"After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother."
"According to the Bible, a genuine answer to prayer is getting what you ask for."
"So, I tell you, it is foolish to expect the infinite God to place the dynamite of Heaven in the careless hands of a Christian who does not know the travail of soul that Christ had, and has not entered into the burden for sinners and the sense of shame over sin."
"You may be lonely, poor, and cold, neglected by the children, forgotten by your friends, yet may have the glad Christmas joy in your heart as Paul had, shut up in prison cells at Rome!"
"It is better to be sick in the will of God than well outside His blessed will."
"Sex appeal alone is the poorest basis in the world for a happy marriage."
"You cannot do God's work without God's power."
"The world never burned a casual Christian at the stake."
"We'll say good night here, and good morning up there."
"To keep the faith, run with the right crowd."
"People go wrong in their fellowships before they go wrong in their doctrine."
"Prayer is asking; the answer to prayer is receiving."
"I still, from my armchair, preach in great revival campaigns. I still vision hundreds walking the aisles to accept Christ. I still feel hot tears for the lost. I still see God working miracles. Oh, how I long to see great revivals, to hear about revival crowds once again! I want no Christmas without a burden for lost souls, a message for sinners, a heart to bring in the lost sheep so dear to the Shepherd, the sinning souls for whom Christ died. May food be tasteless, and music a discord, and Christmas a farce if I forget the dying millions to whom I am debtor; if this fire in my bones does not still flame! Not till I die or not till Jesus comes, will I ever be eased of this burden, these tears, this toil to save souls."
written a few days before his death, December 1980
"If you were enough like God, some one wouldn't like you."
John R. Rice
1896-1980
"There are a lot of people who would come to Jesus Christ if we would step out and help them come to Jesus Christ."
Richard Rich
"It is the providence of a good God that one day those who hate God and love sin, those who will not be born again, those who follow darkness instead of light, those who are rebels against the Father and haters of His Son, will no more tempt the children of God nor bring them grief and pain."
"It is a great thing when an immortal life is launched on the sea of time and started toward the haven of eternity."
"Ah, it is better to be a good man than a millionaire; better to grow in grace than to accumulate gold; better to know and yield to a Divine guidance than discover acres of diamonds; better to feel the Father's love than to fill the coffers with earthly treasure."
"Every day you spend, every hour I spend in health and prosperity as the special object of God's favor, is occasion for this morning's text, and with the downgoing of the sun we are ingrates indeed if we say not from a heart full to overflowing, 'Hitherto hath the Lord helped us'."
"It is well-nigh a pity that we can't appreciate our own preservation until somebody else is stricken at our very side."
"Hope in God is the prophecy of its consummation."
"When we get God's conception of the soul's worth, no sacrifice will seem too great to make in the effort to save it; when we get God's conception of a soul's worth, no obstacle will seem insurmountable; when we get God's conception of a soul's worth, we will sacrifice, as did Christ, to reclaim it from sin, believing with Solomon, 'He that winneth souls is wise.'"
"Worldy people may have ambitions in many directions, the true Christian's ambitions should find expression in a single course, 'He that winneth souls is wise.'"
"Is it not a mistake to suppose that only sample saints can enjoy the guidance of the Spirit of God; that only a few of the world's great souls have been selected as the subjects of His special favor?"
"No Old Testament prophet or New Testament apostle will consent to the charge of falsity, misrepresentation or discrepancy, if lodged against the Holy Word."
W. B. Riley
1861-1947
"Know you are saved, and base it on the Word of God."
Bobby Roberson
"Visitation is the Bible way for reaching people."
"I measure my success completely by one thing: my obedience to God."
"We should remember that people can go to Heaven without knowing much of the Word of God, but they cannot go to Heaven without knowing Jesus Christ as Savior."
"There is no time for delay, for men are passing out into eternity without knowing Christ."
"Every agency and every organization of the church should be directed toward one end - the winning of the lost."
"Life is an adventure!"
"Everything rises or falls on leadership."
"It takes three to thrive: Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday night."
"Without a zeal for souls, the work of our Lord will fail."
"We ought to be stirred in our souls against sin and condemn it in every sermon."
"No Sunday School can be called great that does not have a conviction that the Bible is the Word of God. "
"We don't have time to fight the brethren."
"Even disappointment has a redeeming feature, for when I am disappointed in myself and in others, I lean more heavily upon God, for our God is One who never fails or disappoints His children."
"The right medicine for America is the Word of God."
Lee Roberson
"Whenever we believe God has done us wrong, we are believing a lie."
"We desparately need God."
"Oh, that God would open our eyes to see how much we need Him."
Bob Roberts
"Give a man an open Bible, an open mind, a conscience in good working order and he will have a hard time to keep from being a Baptist!"
"Jesus was immersed ... why do anything if you are not willing to do what Jesus did, and what He commands?"
A. T. Robertson
1863-1934
"Faith is the rope tied to the bucket of reality, dipping itself into the fullness of God."
"Salvation is not a foot race between man and the devil, but it is the gift of God through the Lord Jesus Christ."
"There's no way to overcome sin apart from the Saviour."
"Slipping out into eternity is God’s way of graduating you."
"What you do before sunup determines whether you have victory before sundown."
"I don't live by preference, I live by conviction."
"My emotions help me with my devotions."
"Death is sort of an underpass to Glory: slipping out into eternity is God’s way of graduating you."
"God is the God of the impossible, as well as the God of the possible."
"We have let the superficial take the place of the supernatural."
"No one ever brought charges against God and had it stand up in court."
Lester Roloff
1914-1982
"Those that threatened us have been confounded - our God is great!"
Peter Rumachik
"It is your job to share the Word of God."
David Rupe
"A spiritual hunger for righteousness, a longing for a deeper and richer fellowship with Jesus Christ, and an aspiration for a higher comradeship with God, are a necessary part of the soul-winner's inner equipment."
"Prayer is the Christian's most glorious privilege, most enlarging opportunity, and most essential obligation; for it opens the door to communication with God, makes easier his access to men, and is the surest way to bring God and men together in saving and keeping relationship."
"Study that sermon (Acts 2:14-40), and you will find that Peter preached the deity of Christ, the rejection of Jesus Christ as the darkest sin, the resurrection, hell, the enduement of the Holy Ghost, the final victory of Christ's gospel over sin, Christ's second advent, repentance, faith, baptism."
"If I have any power, it is this: there is never an hour, day or night, but that I can close my eyes and weep over a lost world."
"Wallow in the Word." (said on his deathbed)
Lee R. Scarborough
1870-1945
"That flesh nature has not gotten one whit better since you were born."
"God alone has the right to be God, but He has given us the right to be godly."
"Dissatisfaction stems from what you think you deserve, and it is the number one tool of Satan to destroy your relationships."
"I want to be rich where it matters most."
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