Nobody doubted that Martin Luther believed what he spoke. He spoke with thunder, for there was lightning in his faith. The man preached all over, for his entire nature believed. You felt, “Well, he may be mad, or he may be altogether mistaken, but he assuredly believes what he says. He is the incarnation of faith; his heart is running over at his lips.”
– Charles Spurgeon –
from Lectures To My Students
The atonement in Jesus Christ’s blood is perfect; there isn’t anything that can be added to it. It is spotless, impeccable, flawless. It is perfect as God is perfect.
– AW Tozer –
God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.
– William Booth –
One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving.
– Amy Carmichael –
As [there is] no standing without armor, so [there is] no fear of falling into the fiend’s hands if armed.
– William Gurnall –
I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
– Richard Baxter –
(1615-1691)
It has often been said that prayer is the greatest force in the universe. This is no exaggeration. It will bear constant repetition. In this atomic age when forces are being released that stagger the thought and imagination of man, it is well to remember that prayer transcends all other forces.
– FJ Huegel –
The link that binds us to God is faith. The larger the God we know, the larger will be our faith. The secret of power in our lives is to know God and expect great things from Him. “With God all things are possible,” and “All things are possible to him that believeth.” The difference between faith and works is just this: In the case of faith, God does it; in the case of works, we try to do it ourselves; and the difference is measured simply by the distance between the infinite and the finite, the Almighty God and a helpless worm.
– AB Simpson –
Remember that Christ Himself is better than any of His blessings; better than the power, or the victory, or the service that He grants. … He is God’s best: we may have Christ; yielding to Him in such completeness and abandonment of self that it is no longer we that live, but Christ that liveth in us. Will you thus take Him?
– Charles G. Trumbull –
from Victory in Christ