Quote Collection
Don’t be idle – Thomas Brooks
Standing pools gather mud, and nourish and breed venomous creatures; and so do the idle and slothful Christians.
– Thomas Brooks –
from Smooth Stones taken from Ancient Brooks
No sacrifice too great – CT Studd
If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
– CT Studd –
Praying for others – Samuel Rutherford
I have benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
– Samuel Rutherford –
What we need – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
We need less traveling by jet planes from congress to congress … but more kneeling and praying and pleading to God to have mercy upon us, more crying to God to arise and scatter his enemies and make himself known.
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
Intercession – Oswald Chambers
Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.
– Oswald Chambers –
The explanation of faith – Thomas Aquinas
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
– Thomas Aquinas –
One act of obedience – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
Grief and Joy – AW Pink
After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.
– AW Pink –
Living as a Christian where you are – Henry Ward Beecher
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
– Henry Ward Beecher –