Authur T. Pierson

March 31, 2012

All practical power over sin and over men depends on maintaining closet communion. Those who abide in the secret place with God show themselves mighty to conquer evil, and strong to work and to war for God. They are seers who read His secrets; they know His will; they are the meek whom He guides in judgment and teaches His way. They are His prophets who speak for Him to others, and even forecast things to come. They watch the signs of the times and discern His tokens and read His signals.

– Arthur T. Pierson –

March 12, 2012

A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: “I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts.” The workman answered: “Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees.”

– Arthur T. Pierson –

February 24, 2012

From the day of Pentecost, there has been not one great spiritual awakening in any land which has not begun in a union of prayer, though only among two or three. And no such outward, upward movement has continued after such prayer meetings have declined. It is in exact proportion to the maintenance of such joint and believing supplication and intercession that the Word of the Lord in any land or locality has had free course and been glorified.

– Arthur T. Pierson –

January 31, 2012

How long will it take us to learn that our shortest route to the man next door is by way of God’s throne?

– Arthur T. Pierson –

January 24, 2012

Wherever the Church is aroused and the world’s wickedness arrested, somebody has been praying.

– Arthur T. Pierson –

December 4, 2011

The only hope of missions lay in a revival of religion, wide-spread and deep-reaching.

– Arthur T. Pierson –
The Crisis of Missions (1886)

July 28, 2011

Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God’s presence. It is vain to say, ‘I have too much work to do to find time.’ You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him.

– Arthur T. Pierson –

June 5, 2011

If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is un-obeyed, until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. There is little right giving because there is little right living, and because of the lack of sympathetic contact with God in holiness of heart, there is a lack of effectual contact with him at the Throne of Grace. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together, and a low standard in one means a general debility in the whole spiritual being.

– Arthur T. Pierson –