There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
– DL Moody –
Ministry
April 12, 2015
You must GO forward on your knees.
– J. Hudson Taylor –
April 9, 2015
Jesus had only three years to accomplish His life-work. If we remember how quickly three years in an ordinary life pass away, and how little at their close there usually is to show for them, we shall see what must have been the size and quality of life, which in so marvelously short a time made such a deep and ineffaceable impression on the world and left to mankind such a heritage of truth and influence.
– James Stalker –
from The Life of Jesus Christ, 1880
April 2, 2015
True lovers of men’s souls learn the art of dealing with them, and the Holy Spirit makes them expert soul-surgeons for Jesus. It is not because a man has more abilities, nor altogether because he has more grace, but the Lord makes him to love the souls of men intensely, and this imparts a secret skill, since, for the most part, the way to get sinners to Christ is to love them to Christ.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from his book The Soul Winner
April 1, 2015
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
– Jim Elliot –
from his Journal, October 28, 1949
March 27, 2015
Preacher, keep your knees on the ground and your eyes on the throne.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
March 26, 2015
No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion;
many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
March 23, 2015
Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.
– Richard Baxter –
March 9, 2015
If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you’re serving in the wrong place.