Half a dozen men on their knees for 60 minutes waiting upon the Lord with the absolute conviction that they have no answer, that their human ideas and programs are ineffective and bankrupt—they will accomplish more than 50 men around a table discussing problems for a whole year.
– Alan Redpath –
Most Americans worship their work, work at their play, and play at their worship.
– Al Whittinghill –
Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry?
Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die?
Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand?
Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you DAMNED?
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Do not let us imagine that we can take into our fellowship and enlist under one banner men who simply affirm truth about Jesus, unless in their own lives there is an absolute loyalty to the Lord Christ.
– G. Campbell Morgan –
An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.
– Thomas Brooks –
A man’s most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
– Thomas Brooks –
Surely it is worthwhile to lay ourselves out with all our might in promoting the cause and kingdom of Christ.
– William Carey –
Work as if everything depended upon your work, and pray as if everything depended upon your prayer.
– William Booth –
The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be “Devoted for Life.”
– Adoniram Judson–