Quote Collection

Dependent on prayer – EM Bounds

Dependent on prayer – EM Bounds

“Brethren, pray for us” (1 Thessalonians 5:25).

If Paul was so dependent on the prayers of God’s saints to give his ministry success, how much more important is it that the prayers of God’s saints be centered on the ministry of today!

– EM Bounds –

Depend on God for everything – Jonathan Edwards

Depend on God for everything – Jonathan Edwards

The work of a true convert is not done. He finds a great work to do and great wants to be supplied. He still sees himself to be a poor, empty, helpless creature who still stands in great and continual need of God’s help. He well knows that without God he can do nothing. After a true conversion, the soul is increasingly aware of its own impotence and emptiness. It is still aware of its universal dependence on God for everything.

– Jonathan Edwards –

Give ourselves to prayer – Andrew Murray

Give ourselves to prayer – Andrew Murray

Let us give ourselves to be intercessors. Let us cry with importunity to God when we see people who need help, when the spirit of compassion stirs within us, when we feel our own powerlessness to help, or when we see obstacles in the way of our getting an answer. God alone can help. And in answer to our prayers, He will help.

– Andrew Murray – 
from The Ministry of Intercession

Diligent in your work – Robert Murray M’Cheyne

Diligent in your work – Robert Murray M’Cheyne

Whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men (Colossians 3:23).

It is right for Christians to be diligent in business. They have good conscience that oils the wheels. “A merry heart does good, like medicine” (Proverbs 17:22). A light heart makes easy work.

– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –

Are you a doer or a talker? – John Bunyan

Are you a doer or a talker? – John Bunyan

At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?

– John Bunyan –

Thinking about the Second Coming – Alexander MacLaren

Thinking about the Second Coming – Alexander MacLaren

The apostolic [early] church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.

– Alexander MacLaren –

Called Holy – JC Ryle

Called Holy – JC Ryle

 I cannot see how any man deserves to be called “holy,” who willfully allows himself in sins, and is not humbled and ashamed because of them.

– JC Ryle –

Jesus didn’t die to save us from hell – Leonard Ravenhill

Jesus didn’t die to save us from hell – Leonard Ravenhill

Without holiness, no one shall see the Lord. Jesus didn’t die to save us from hell. That’s a fringe benefit! He died to get total occupation of us … [and to make us] holy in speech … in actions … in everything.

– Leonard Ravenhill –