“My brother Wesley acted wisely,” Whitefield said. “The souls that were awakened under his ministry he joined in societies, and thus preserved the fruit of his labor. This I neglected, and my people are a rope of sand.”
– George Whitefield –
Ministry
We don’t have to do exceptional things – Oswald Chambers
The “show business,” which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from our Lord’s conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes.
– Oswald Chambers –
Work done in God’s way – Erwin Lutzer
It is not enough to do God’s work; it must be done in His way and for His credit.
– Erwin Lutzer –
Save all you can – Dwight L. Moody
I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said to me: “Moody save all you can.”
– Dwight L. Moody –
Tell Them – Paul Washer
Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life — tell them who God is.
– Paul Washer –
Not looking for much from God – George Macdonald
O Lord my God, in you I put my trust. Psalms 7:1
“O God, one day we will laugh ourselves to scorn that we looked for so little from you.”
– George Macdonald –
The ONE Goal – Steve Case
Ask missionaries (regardless of age – 12 or 112) and they’ll tell you they have one goal – God. God first. God last. God in all things. Not to go out and feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, make busy with conversion activity, but God first. With God as the goal, the homeless get a roof, the hungry get fed, the cold get warmed, the lonely get a friend, and the wanderer finds a way.
– Steve Case –
Taking the Gospel too seriously – Leonard Ravenhill
Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, “Leonard, you took Me too seriously?”
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Showing the love of God – DL Moody
If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.
– DL Moody –