Quote Collection
What Sin Is – Oswald Chambers
Remember what sin is: the fundamental independence of God; the thing in me that says, I can do without God, I don’t need Him.
– Oswald Chambers –
Let the power of Christ rest on me – Thomas Chalmers
My God, Thou knowest my infirmities; and Thou knowest my desire to overcome them. Send forth Thy Spirit to help me in this warfare. Give me wisdom, O God, and the meekness of wisdom. Let the power of Christ rest upon me.
– Thomas Chalmers –
Elements of a Ministry of Power – Horatius Bonar
Nearness to Christ, intimacy with Him, assimilation of His character—these are the elements of a ministry of power.
– Horatius Bonar –
Heart and Words in Prayer – John Bunyan
In prayer it is better to have a heart with without words, than words without a heart.
– John Bunyan –
Paul’s greatest weapon – EM Bounds
Paul was a leader by appointment and by universal recognition and acceptance. He had many mighty forces in this ministry. His conversion, so conspicuous and radical was a great force, a perfect magazine of aggressive and defensive warfare. His call to the apostleship was clear, luminous and convincing. But these forces were not the divinest energies which brought forth the largest results to his ministry. Paul’s course was more distinctly shaped and his career rendered more powerfully successful by prayer than by any other force.
– EM Bounds –
Jesus is praying for me – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes not difference. He is praying for me.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Not filled with the world – DL Moody
Christians should live in the world but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water, but if the water gets in the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world, but if the world gets into them, they sink.
– DL Moody –
Thinking well of yourself – Charles Spurgeon
It is the devil’s masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.
– Charles Spurgeon –
God’s presence is indispensable – Ian Thomas
Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity.
– Ian Thomas –