quotes

The Difference Between Prayer Meetings – Norman Grubb

Prayer meetings are dead affairs when they are merely asking sessions; there is adventure, hope, and life when they are believing sessions, and the faith is corporately, practically and deliberately affirmed.

– Norman Grubb –

No Substitute for Secret Communion with God – Gordon Cove

There is absolutely no substitute for this secret communion with God. The public Church services, or even the family altar, cannot take the place of the ‘closet’ prayer. We must deliberately seek to meet with God absolutely alone…

– Gordon Cove –

Prayer is Absolutely Vital – Charles Spurgeon

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.

– Charles Spurgeon –

Departure of Heart from Him – Andrew Fuller

All backsliding from God originates in a departure of heart from him: herein consists the essence and the evil of it. “Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know, therefore, and see, that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken THE LORD THY GOD, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord of hosts” (Jeremiah 2:19).

– Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) –
from The Backslider: His Nature, Symptoms, and Recovery

A Generation of Zombies – AW Tozer

Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.

– AW Tozer –

Forget Yourself in the Service of God

He who forgets himself in the service of God may be sure that God will not forget him.

– an unattributed statement found written on a piece of paper in an old copy of The Ministry of Song, a book by Frances Ridley Havergal