How beautiful are the arms, which have embrace Christ, the eyes which have gazed upon Christ, the lips which have spoken with Christ, the feet which have followed Christ. How beautiful are the hands which have worked the works of Christ, the feet which treading in His footsteps have gone about doing good, the lips which have spread abroad His Name, the lives which have been counted for Him.
– Christina Rossetti –
The unction, the divine unction, this heavenly anointing, is what the pulpit needs and must have.
– EM Bounds –
Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell …
– Richard Baxter –
I’m convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.
– Vance Havner –
And so it had gotten down to the place where salvation was nothing more than the assent to a scheme or a formula.
– Paris Reidhead –
If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
– Catherine Booth –
We’re suffering from a believism that never has believed and a receivism that never has received and it leads to deceivism.
– Vance Havner –
I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts. No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition, of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.
– David Brainerd –
America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.
– Leonard Ravenhill –