If you don’t desire to meet the Devil during the day, meet Jesus before dawn.
– CT Studd –
Power
Seek First the Kingdom of God – Hudson Taylor
Are we not told to seek first the Kingdom of God—not the means to advance it—and that all these things shall be added to us? Such promises are surely sufficient.
– Hudson Taylor –
Laying Bare the Evils of the Age – Horatius Bonar
Someone, then, must undertake the ungracious task of probing and laying bare the evils of the age; for men must not be allowed to congratulate themselves that all is well. If others will not, he will. If others shrink from the obloquy of such a work, he will not. He loves the age too well; he loves his nation too well; he loves his fellow-men too well. They may upbraid him; they may call him a misanthropist, or a prophet of evil; they may ascribe his warnings to the worst of motives, such as pride, or arrogance, or self-esteem, or malice, or envy; but he will give no heed to these unjust insinuations. He will prefer being thus misunderstood and maligned, to allowing men to precipitate themselves upon a ruin which they see not. Rather than that they should perish, he will allow his own good name to be spoken against. He will risk every thing, even the hatred of brethren, rather than withhold the warning.
– Horatius Bonar –
Setting Our Sails For Revival – G. Campbell Morgan
Revival cannot be organized, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again.
– G. Campbell Morgan –
There Is No Life or Victory Outside of Jesus
There’s no life or victory outside the Person of Jesus Christ. Before God is able to fill us with His Spirit, we must be emptied of “self.”
– Unknown –
Prayer is the Most Necessary Thing – Edward Payson
Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, and the third thing necessary for a minister, especially if he have revivals. Pray, then, my dear brother, pray, pray, pray.
– Edward Payson –
Weak in Prayer Equals Weak in Preaching
We are weak in the pulpit because weak in the closet.
– John Angel James –
The Prayers of Martin Luther
Do we know a prayerfulness like that of Luther, who once said, “I have so much business to do today that I shall not be able to get through it with less than three hours [of] prayer.”
– Henry Fish –
The Prayers of John Knox
I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe.
– Mary, Queen of Scots –