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 Favourite Quotes

 

"God has His best things for the few who dare to stand the test; God has His second choice for those who will not have His best. Give me, O Lord, Thy highest choice, Let others take the rest. Their good things have no charm for me, for I have got Thy best." - Anon

 

"Jesus is the centre of all, the object of all, whoever does not know Him, knows nothing aright, either of the world or of himself." - Blaise Pascal

 

"Oh, for as much love as would go around the earth, and over heaven - yea, the heaven of heavens, and ten thousand worlds - that I might let all out upon fair, fair, the only fair Christ." - Samuel Rutherford.

 

"Nothing is impossible to the man who prays in faith, just as nothing is impossible with God." - Tozer

 

"The wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes; nor will he lend his heart to aught which doth on time depend." - Tozer

 

"What I believe about God is the most important thing about me." - Tozer

 

"The cross that saves, also slays." - Tozer

 

"The highest holiness is to walk in self- renunciation." - A B Simpson

 

"No Christian worker can ever be used of God until the proud self-will is broken and the heart is ready to yield to God's every touch, no matter through whom it may come." - A B Simpson

 

"The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him." - Tozer

 

"I change, He changes not, the Christ can never die. His love, not mine, the resting place; His truth, not mine, the tie." - Horatius Bonar

"The only acceptable workers are those who have learned the art of worship." A W Tozer

"Revival is not the top blowing off, its the bottom falling out." - Roy Hessian

"The man of God must walk alone with God." - A B Simpson

"My sole possession is Thy love; on earth below, in heaven above, I have no other store; and though with fervent suit I pray, and opportune Thee day by day, I ask for nothing more." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Beloved, your life is too large, too glorious, too divine for the small place in which you are trying to live." - 

A B Simpson

"All things are but shadows cast by the great Reality, God; and if we were to gain the whole world and miss God, we should have no more than a handful of shadows." A W Tozer

"Those who follow Him "afar off" can still keep their eyes on Jesus, but those who go one step ahead of Him, lose all sight of Him and begin to walk in their own shadows."- Aubrey Evans

"Great hearts can only be made by great troubles." - Spurgeon

"Thou, O Christ art all I want; more than all in Thee I find." - Chas.Wesley

"The cross that saves also slays." - Tozer

"A man may be consecrated, dedicated and devoted but is of little value if undisciplined." - Hudson Taylor

"Men who do not pray have no right to direct church affairs." -Tozer

"He that hath God hath everything; he that doth not have God, hath nothing." - de Molinos

"God hasn't engaged many of us to be lawyers but He has summoned all of us to be witnesses." - Anon

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

"The church's mightiest influence is felt when she is different from the world in which she lives." -Tozer

"I cannot afford to lower the Scriptures to my standard of experience." - Johnson

"A growing Christian must have at his roots the life-giving waters of penitence." - Tozer

"If you want to be used, you have to be bruised." - Al Whittinghill

"The will of God will never lead me where the grace of God cannot keep me." - Don McClure

"There is a truth that cannot be grasped by the intellect, for the intellect exists for the apprehension of ideas, and this truth consists not in ideas but in life." - Tozer

"We do not stand in the world bearing witness of Christ; we stand in Christ and bear witness to the world." - Gordon

"Greatness begins with being small; it ends with being nothing." - Anon

"The river of God is full of water; but not one drop of it flows from earthly springs." - Spurgeon

"The deepest repentance, humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realised before we can know God's strength." - Frank Bartleman 

                                                                                                          

"No Christian worker can ever be used of God until the proud self-will is broken and the heart is ready to yield to God's every touch, no matter through whom it may come." -  A B Simpson

"An unchanged life is evidence of an unchanged heart; an unchanged heart is evidence of an unsaved soul." -        Spurgeon
                                                                                                                                     

"Our churches are full of people who would be equally shocked to see Christianity doubted as they would be to see it  practiced." - Alan Redpath

"The sole consideration that God is God is sufficient to still all objections to His sovereignty." - Jonathon Edwards.

"We only possess what we experience." - Tozer

"May your character not be a writing upon the sand but an inscription on the rock." - Spurgeon

"More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." - Tennyson

"Whatever God can do, faith can do, and whatever faith can do prayer can do when it is offered in faith."-  Tozer

"An invitation to prayer is an invitation to omnipotence, for prayer engages the Omnipotent God and brings Him into human affairs." -Tozer
 

"The kingdom of God is not going to advance by our churches becoming filled with men, but by men in our churches becoming filled with God." 

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