The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have dead men preaching to them. How can dead men beget living children?
– George Whitefield –
Christian Life
August 11, 2012
I would have every minister of the Gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.
– Francois Fenelon –
August 10, 2012
Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Savior, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things.
– Charles Spurgeon –
August 9, 2012
If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due improvement of one of these occasions, than we could have done merely by imitating his mercy, in abundance of good works.
– John Wesley –
August 8, 2012
How did Jesus expect His disciples to react under persecution? (In Matthew 5:12 He said), “Rejoice and be glad!” We are not to retaliate like an unbeliever, nor sulk like a child, nor lick our wound in self-pity like a dog, nor just grin a bear it like a Stoic, still less pretend we enjoy it like a masochist. What then? We are to rejoice as a Christian should and even “leap for joy” (Lk. 6:23).
– John Stott –
from The Message of the Sermon on the Mount, IVP, 1978, p. 52.
August 7, 2012
The apostles went away rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Christ, that they were graced so far as to be disgraced for the name of Christ!
– Thomas Watson –
1600s Puritan
August 6, 2012
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
– Charles Spurgeon –
August 5, 2012
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one’s self in God’s glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.
– EM Bounds –
August 4, 2012
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –