Christianity Quotes - Page 32

• When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

  Martin Luther

  Scripture, Speak

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• For what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need

  Martin Luther

  Giving, Needs

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• Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.

  William Gurnall

  Heart, Heavenly, Contrary

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• One Almighty is more than all mighties

  William Gurnall

  Almighty

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• I hoped that my weary pilgrimage in the world would be short; and that it would not be long before I should be brought to my heavenly home and Father's house.

  David Brainerd

  Father, Home, Long

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.113

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• The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away

  Martin Luther

  People, Use, World

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• The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.

  Martin Luther

  Way, Few Words, Spirit

  Martin Luther “Commentary on Peter and Jude”, Kregel Publications

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• I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

  David Brainerd

  Prayer, Cottages, Littles

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• Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday

  Richard Baxter

  Holiday, Today, Tomorrow

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• Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.

  Watchman Nee

  Men, Mind, He Man

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.104, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be added to it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Men, Calvinism

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1858). “Sermons: 1st series [-6th series].”, p.219

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• We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.

  Oswald Chambers

  Doe, Forget, Danger

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.61, Discovery House

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• If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.

  R. A. Torrey

  Doctrine, Way, Hell

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• Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls.

  Matthew Henry

  Thinking, Light, Soul

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• Men invent means and methods of coming at God''s love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God''s presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him?

  Brother Lawrence

  Mean, Simple, Men

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• By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Thinking, Average

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• God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Men, Wrath, Long Ago

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• The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Mind, Needs

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• We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Spiritual, Father, Real

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.61, CCEL

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• Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!

  David Brainerd

  Sweet, Blessed, World

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.78

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• Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

  George Whitefield

  Moon, Men, Thinking

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• Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do you think that such an easy religion can save you? If so, we may invert Christ's words and say, 'Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to life, and may there be that go in there.'

  John Flavel

  Heart, Thinking, Tears

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• In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Numbers, Generations, Righteous

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• There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Mean, Errors, Doctrine

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• Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Sea, Ships, Tested

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