Quote Collection
With God as the only focus – AW Tozer
It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God.
– AW Tozer –
Is the Church a hospital or museum? – Vance Havner
The church is a hospital for sinners, and not a museum for saints.
– Vance Havner –
The Church needs to move the world – GK Chesterton
We do not want a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
– GK Chesterton –
Living not for self – William Temple
The Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those who are not its members.
– William Temple –
Glory Begun – Thomas Brooks
What is grace but glory begun? And what is glory but grace perfected? Grace is glory in the bud, and glory is grace at full.
– Thomas Brooks –
from Heaven on Earth: A Treatise on Christian Assurance,1654
The Glory of the Gospel – Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
Gifts of the Spirit – Jack W. Hayford
Jesus gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit, yet when the Spirit comes, He is loaded with packages! He desires to release much more in us and through us than we could ever imagine. These gifts are given for delivery, not for accumulation. We receive them to pass them on to others.
– Jack W. Hayford –
The Chief of God’s Promises – Richard Baxter
Christ promised His Spirit to all true believers, to be in them as his Advocate, Agent, Seal, and Mark; and indeed the Spirit here, and heaven hereafter, are the chief of His promises.
– Richard Baxter –
from Dying Thoughts, 1683
The Emptiness of Materialism – Adrian Rogers
It’s about time we stopped buying things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.
– Adrian Rogers –