Samuel Chadwick Quotes

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• Satan dreads nothing but prayer. . . . The Church that lost its Christ was full of good works. Activities are multiplied that meditation may be ousted, and organizations are increased that prayer may have no chance. Souls may be lost in good works, as surely as in evil ways. The one concern of the devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

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  Prayer, Organization, Evil

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• Nothing would turn the nation back to God so surely and so quickly as a Church that prayed and prevailed. The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no supernatural power. A rationalized faith, a socialized Church and a moralized gospel may gain applause, but they awaken no conviction and win no converts.

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  Believe, Winning, Church

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• Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

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  Prayer, Rain, Men

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• It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.

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  Prayer, Powerful, Army

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• Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

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  Prayer, Laughing, Kneeling

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• It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.

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  Broken Heart, God, Broken Pieces

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• Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God.

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  Hate, Love Is, Fire

  Samuel Chadwick (2007). “The Way to Pentecost”, CLC Publications

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• There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.

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  Way, Praying, Problem

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• The Holy Ghost does not come upon methods, but upon men. He does not anoint machinery, but men. He does not work through organizations, but through men. He does not dwell in buildings, but men. He indwells the Body of Christ, directs its activities, distributes its forces, empowers its members.

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  Men, Organization, Empowering

  Samuel Chadwick (2007). “The Way to Pentecost”, CLC Publications

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• The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

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  Christian, Prayer, Laughing

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• I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.

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  God, Christian, Truth

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• There is no way of learning to pray but by praying. No reasoned philosophy of prayer ever taught a soul to pray. We know not what we should pray for as we ought, and if prayer waits for understanding it will never begin. We discover by using. We learn by practice. Though a man should have all knowledge about prayer, and though he should understand all mysteries about prayer, unless he prays he will never learn to pray.

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  Prayer, Motivation, Philosophy

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• Men ablaze are invincible. Hell trembles when men kindle. The stronghold of Satan is proof against everything but fire. The Church is powerless without the flame of the Holy Ghost. Destitute of fire, nothing else really counts; possessed of fire, nothing else really matters. The one vital need is fire. Without the flame and fervour of the Holy Ghost the Church will never accomplish its mission.

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  Men, Fire, Flames

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• Great grief prays with great earnestness. Prayer is not a collection of balanced phrases; it is the pouring out of the soul. What is love if it be not fiery? What are prayers if the heart be not ablaze? They are the battles of the soul. In them men wrestle with principalities and powers...
  ”The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.

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  Prayer, Grief, Heart

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• The one thing that is said to have surprised God is that the voice of intercession had ceased. 'And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor' (Isaiah 59:16).

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  Men, Voice, Saws

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• The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.

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  Roots, Church, World

  Samuel Chadwick (2007). “The Way to Pentecost”, CLC Publications

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• The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.

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  Prayer, Heart, Secret Places

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• A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts.

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  Heart, Behinds, Asks

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• Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.

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  Church, Laziness, Cry

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• Hurry is the death of Prayer.

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  Prayer

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• True prayer is a lonely business.

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  Lonely, Prayer

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• To pray as God would have us pray is the greatest achievement of earth.

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  Achievement, Earth, Praying

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• Communion is deeper than theology.

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  Communion, Theology, Deeper

  Samuel Chadwick (2012). “The Path of Prayer”, p.31, CLC Publications

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• Praying solves the problems of prayer.

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  Prayer, Praying, Problem

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• There is no way to learn to pray but by praying.

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  Way, Praying

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