Wherever there is complaint of a lack of workers or of competent helpers for God’s work, prayer holds the promise for their supply. There is no work for God where He is not ready and able to provide workers for it. It may take time and importunity, but Christ’s command to ask the Lord of the harvest is the pledge that the prayer will be heard: “I tell you, he will get up and give him as much as he needs” (Luke 11:8).
– Andrew Murray –
from Teach Me to Pray
Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Never water down or minimize the mighty Gospel of God by considering that people may be misled by certain statements. Present the Gospel in all its fullness and God will guard His own truth.
– Oswald Chambers –
When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get in the light. … Now he gives you the gift of humiliation which brings the softness of heart that will always listen to God now.
– Oswald Chambers –
I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
– Richard Baxter –
(1615-1691)
“I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.”
1 Corinthians 9:22
What was Paul’s great object in his daily life and ministry? He says it was, to save some. There are ministers of Christ present at this hour, together with City missionaries, Bible-women, Sunday-school teachers, and other workers in my Master’s vineyard, and I make bold to enquire of each one of them,—Is this your object in all your Christian service? Do you above all things aim at saving souls?
– Charles Spurgeon –
from The Soul Winner
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth.
– John Wesley –
We read in the biographies of our forefathers, who were most successful in winning souls, that they prayed for hours in private. The question therefore arises, can we get the same results without following their example?
– Oswald J. Smith –
I have but one passion: It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.
– Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf –