Daily Preachers'Quotes

DAILY PREACHERS' QUOTES

Quotes of the Day

"All scholars shall live religious, godly, and blameless lives according to the rules of God's Word, diligently reading the Holy Scriptures, the fountain of light and truth; and constantly attend upon all the duties of religion, both in public and secret."

Regulations at Yale College

1745

"Christians are personally responsible for bringing the light of the gospel to darkened nations."

"Besides you, there is no one who is going to reach them."

Tigran Agamalian

"In a dark hole I have found pleasure; in a place of bitterness and death, rest and hope of salvation; in the abyss or depths of hell, joy; where others weep, I have laughed; where others fear, I have found strength; who will believe this?"

Algerius

teenager martyred A. D. 1557

"We cannot take one step toward God without making a great impression on others."

"Every Christian who has so much as a shadow between self and the Saviour; every Christian who has drifted even the slightest away from God and Christ; every Christian who has by any omission or commission grieved the Holy Spirit needs to repent."

"I wish we could find some new word, some new appeal as we go to plead with ourselves, to plead with our church members, to plead with each other to live holy, sacrificial, separated, spiritual lives, to express our Christianity in such manner and fashion that no one can doubt us."

"The Lord Jesus Christ has the power to keep a man continuing to walk in the newness of life, in the carrying on of a spiritual, scriptural, separated, sanctified activity as a Christian."

"An atomic bomb is almost needed to break into some of the cliques in our churches."

Hyman Appelman

1902-1983

"Jesus died for the church and He promised that the gates of hell would not prevail against the church and we would do well to channel all of our activities, all of our giving, all of our soul winning, all of our missionary work and all of our activities through the church."

Tommy Ashcraft

"If you ever had to wait on God's timing and didn't want to, you didn't understand the goodness of God."

"Right now you are experiencing the very best for your life."

Tom Asher

"Now who can hear Christ declare that his kingdom is not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church and state together can be pleasing to him?"

"God is the only worthy object of all religious worship, and nothing can be true religion but a voluntary obedience unto His revealed will."

"As God is the only worthy object of all religious worship, and nothing can be true religion but a voluntary obedience unto His revealed will … every person has an unalienable right to act in all religious affairs according to the full persuasion of his own mind, where others are not injured thereby."

Isaac Backus

1724-1806

"The moral structure of our nation is being corroded by the cancer of sin."

"God help us come back to the hour when we make our stand for the blessed old Book, the Book that men have lived by and died by."

Raymond Barber

"Hell is the eternal prison of the insane, soul-deluded religionists who had the hallucination that they could get to Heaven by morality, good works, church membership, confirmation, baptism-any way-but who rejected Christ's sure, simple directions."

"...consider the criminality of our 20th century Christianity that is not earnestly evangelizing sinners for the Saviour, iniquities that indict us with bloodguiltiness!"

"...when men, women and youth die unsaved, unprepared to meet God, but unwarned, unreached by Christians, their blood will be required at our hands!"

"When denominations, when churches, when individual Christians lose their vision, their passion, their purpose for soul winning: when they cease from their intercession and visitation for souls, you be sure the Lord God will write "Ichabod" over that ministry, take away the light of that testimony, and souls, as sheep without a shepherd, will become strayed, stolen, prey for every beast of the field: every ism, every sect, every cult that deceives, deludes and damns souls to a Devil's Hell!"

Fred M. Barlow

1921-1983

"Righteousness is only determined by the eternal Word of God."

Mike Bere

"You can't be a silent witness any more than you can be a sober drunk."

Robert J. Billings

"As I passed by the doors of the flaming sin palaces tonight I seemed to hear a voice sounding in my ears, 'Where can you go and find such heathen as these, and where is there so great a need for your labours?"

William Booth

1829-1912

"I like to go out into the highways and hedges and knock on this door and that and wonder what God is going to do, see whom God is going to save."

"The battlefield of this old world is filled with the wounded souls of pride."

Clyde Box

"Temptations are the bait in the devil's trap."

"I don't have to come back, but I do have to go."

"America needs to pray for its sick and not to kill them."

"Keep your line in the water."

"You cannot grow past your smallest sin."

"Preaching on Hell rips the cover off and brings people face to face with salvation."

"Although my legs and feet are breaking down, I am determined to continue to declare the graces of Jesus. If I cannot declare them standing up, I will declare them sitting down. If I cannot declare the graces of Jesus sitting down, then I will do it lying down. Wouldn't it be something to be able to rise up in the casket and shout: Repent! Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ!"

Joe Boyd

"Where there are a hundred men looking for the storm, there is one looking for the Lord."

Clyde Box

"Hold your fork, because something better is coming."

Ron Bragg

"I lift up one foot and it says, 'Glory!' and I lift the other foot and it says, 'Amen!' and so they keep on like that all the time I'm walking. If I were to go down to Hell I would shout, 'Glory! Glory!' unto my blessed Jesus until I made the bottomless pit ring again, and that miserable old Satan would say, 'Billy, Billy, this is no place for thee; get thee back.' Then up to Heaven I would go, shouting, 'Glory, glory, praise the Lord!'"

"If I was to go down to hell I would shout glory! glory! to my blessed Jesus until I made the bottomless pit ring again, and that miserable old Satan would say, 'Billy, Billy, this is no place for thee: get thee back!'"

Billy Bray

1794-1868

"It is not about our bank account."

"God wants His children to be concerned with holiness."

"The main reason believers worry is because we do not know God better."

Kirk Briscoe

"In the full knowledge of the consequences, under circumstances conducive to accepting Christ, millions today are premeditatedly, deliberately, with callused hearts, turning from Christ as the giver of life and committing spiritual suicide."

"As long as there is one vestige of human pride left in the heart of a man, it is impossible for him to be saved."

Fred Brown

1909-1992

"You are willing to go anywhere, but are you willing to stay where you are?"

Mel Brown

"But this is the trap in which the devil hath caught many thousands of poor souls, namely, by getting them to judge according to outward appearance, or according to God's outward blessings."

"Christians are like the flowers in a garden, that have each of them the dew of Heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other."

"For had they but their thoughts well exercised about the shortness of this life, and the danger that will befall such as do miss of the Lord Jesus Christ, it would make them more wary and sober, and spend more time in the service of God, and be more delighted and diligent in inquiring after the Lord Jesus, who is the deliverer 'from the wrath to come'."

"When the devil tempts you, run home and tell your heavenly Father--go, pour out your complaints to God; this is natural to children; if any wrong them, they go and tell their father; so do those that are born of God, when they meet with temptations, go and tell God of them."

"The sensible sinner receiveth him joyfully."

John Bunyan

1628-1688

"And when I have gone to the last city and preached my last sermon, and when I have offered my last prayer for the last sinner, when this old body of mine is worn and ready to crumble back to dust, and when my loved ones have gathered around my bed and the death gurgle is heard in my throat, when the old world is receding and Heaven is opening a way, I stand in the presence of Him whom I have preached and loved and have not seen, I want the first one-thousand years to sit at His feet and say, 'Thank You, Jesus, for saving me that dark and stormy day from a drunkard's and a gambler's Hell."

E. Howard Cadle

1884-1942

"Our biggest opportunity as Christians is prayer."

"It is impossible to praise God and be negative at the same time."

"What does God think when He sees us criticizing someone more than praying for them?"

Troy Campbell

"Missionaries however must knock loud and push hard at the door, and if there be the smallest opening, must force themselves in; and, once entered, put their lives in their hands and exert themselves to the utmost in dependence upon divine support, if they ever hope to do much towards evangelising the heathen world."

"I could only say, 'Hangs my helpless soul on thee;' and adopt the language of the first and second verses of the fifty-first Psalm, which I desired might be the text for my funeral sermon."

"If he give me credit for being a plodder he will describe me justly."

"If it be the duty of all men to believe the Gospel . . . then it be the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations."

William Carey

1761-1834

"It has always been a matter of profound surprise to me that anybody should ever question the verbal inspiration of the Bible."

"When you hear this silly talk that the Bible "contains" the word of God and is not the word of God, you hear fool's talk."

B. H. Carroll

1843-1914

"No matter how much people try to change it, get rid of it, or deny it, it will still remain just as God said."

Mickey P. Carter

"You can't reason your way into faith."

B. Myron Cedarholm

1915-1997

"Hence, dear brethren, remain at peace with one another; and you deacons, be a support to the ministers of the Word, and take their part; for they must blow the trumpet, that the drowsy may awake; and some drowsy people are of such a nature, that they do not like to be waked up: so also some that have become drowsy in sin do not like to be waked up."

Jacob the Chandler

1569

"As I think about the blood of Jesus Christ, I am thankful this morning that no one who really understands his need as a sinner, who really understands his need for atonement, will ever have to worry about the blood supply of Jesus Christ."

Paul Chappell

" ... modern Protestants have not only forgotten what Rome was, what she is, and what she will for ever be; the most irreconcilable and powerful enemy of the Gospel of Christ; but they consider her almost as a branch of the church whose corner stone is Christ ... "

Charles Chiniquy

1809-1899

"In America it is easy to presume upon God without depending upon Him."

"If I can push a broom, my pastor shouldn't have to."

"In Greek, the words "without ceasing" mean without ceasing."

Bob Christianson

"Set a mark and go forward."

"There is no situation worth you going into bitterness."

"There are more folks that will do wrong than do right."

"Commitment in the home must begin with a commitment to God."

"A happy home always has the right priorities."

"Don't let a failure make you fail."

"The average Christian will not win anyone this week."

"What you do with unpleasant experiences determines whether your life will be bitter or sweet."

"The need of the hour is to realize the Lord is with us."

"You can sing anywhere."

"Fear can be a motivating factor that moves us to panic."

"What He doesn't supply, I guess I don't need."

"If you are saved, you ought to be profitable to God."

"There are no visitation rights in hell."

"It is important that we learn to leave things with God."

"Isn't there something I can do?"

"Salvation is not found in the pope, the priest or a pastor, but it is found as the Bible says in the precious blood of Jesus Christ."

David Clear

"I guess you're just going to have to trust the Lord."

Elmer Clear

"No man ever got a vision of God and went away bragging."

Ron Comfort

"When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in the light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths, indicate clearly otherwise."

David L. Cooper

1886-1965

"Oh, may I spend my life to the praise and glory of His grace, Who worketh all things after the council of His own will."

John Corbley

1733-1803

"One word makes the difference between those who are grateful and those who are not: think."

Kevin Cowling

"'Cool' is the temperature of God's vomit."

"If you get excited about serving the Lord, you won't have to practice separation - everyone else will."

"Maybe it's time we got excited."

Pete Cowling

"There is only One who can forgive us our sins, cleanse us of our sins and take away all the guilt complex, and that One is Jesus!"

"Make sure you know Jesus first of all in the salvation of your soul and in the pardon of your sins, then learn to bring every need to Him and trust Him to supply your need!"

"Neighbor, I believe we can say conservatively that there are still thousands of God-called, true-to-the-Book preachers and churches that have not yet sold out to the Devil! "

Bruce D. Cummons

"The Creator can deal with the creation as He sees fit."

Jimmy DeYoung

"When I hear the same man, yet not the same, because he has been transformed by grace, praising God for redemption through the blood of Christ, I say, 'Hallelujah! Hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!'"

"He who obeys the command 'rejoice in the Lord,' has a hallelujah in his soul every minute of the day and night."

"There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to praise God, for 'all things work together for good to them that love God.'"

A. C. Dixon

1854-1925

"We don't know what is going on in the hearts of people we pass by every day."

Mark Etherington

"(My) line should not be of fine silk but of strong thread interwoven with the hemp of truth and dipped in the spirit of prayer, for what was wanted was not something nice to look at, but a line with a hook on one end to bite."

"Don't weep for me. Forty and eight years have I ministered in the sanctuary. But I have never ministered without blood in the basin."

Christmas Evans - to friends while he lay dying

1766-1838

"Fear is the greatest crippler in all history."

"Sin is no respecter of persons."

"I'd rather be a prude than a casualty."

"Make Jesus the center of your life, and the circumference will take care of itself."

"Behind every tragedy of human character there is a progress of evil thinking."

"Don't start going together too soon: it's not love, it's biology and chemistry and won't make good literature, and soon will be history."

"If you really look at Jesus it will do something for you."

Wendell Evans

"All of creation is a finger pointing and saying 'Here is the glory of God'."

"I am an errand boy for Jesus Christ."

Tom Farrell

"There is an evil day before us in which the Evil One will try to get us to fall."

Doug Fisher

"Based on the many testimonies given to me by young people and adults alike, I am convinced beyond any doubt that the possession of the Lord's best is frequently sacrificed on the altar of the world's music."

Frank Garlock

"All you have to do is to sow the seed; some of it will fall on good ground and bear good fruit, and some of it will be wasted - but our command remains the same."

"Trust the Lord and tell the people."

"It is our prayer and hope that the Jewish people - who still are God's own people and forever will remain so - will turn their backs on the false shepherds and turn their faces to the True Shepherd."

Jacob Gartenhaus

1896-1984

"In your mind it's 'not me'."

David C. Gibbs, Jr.

"Brazil is being degraded by the craftiness and intrigues of the Roman Church just as has been the case with all people, nations and tribes that have come under its baneful influence."

"You see, I am a Baptist and we Baptists do not accept orders in matters of religion from any civil authority, neither from you, nor the governor of the state nor even from the president of the republic."

"The saddest thing of all is the fact that Christ’s love and free offer of pardon is not known."

"Oh, how they strive to save themselves and to pacify their troubled consciences, but all to no avail, for only Jesus pardons and forgives and saves!"

Solomon L. Ginsburg

1867-1927

"You can't spell GOSPEL without GO first."

Marvin Gochenour

"Jesus, while suffering on the cross, wept and prayed for his persecutors."

Bruce Goddard

"Make sure Christ fills your life."

"Satan wants a place in your life."

Charlie Graves

"I can think of no greater need today than for the church to be accused of turning the world upside down."

"It is not so much what we profess but what we practice that determines our real devotion to Christ."

"Moral cowardice is the curse of the ministry in our generation."

Bob Gray

"Laziness and unconcern will not win a city to Christ."

Bob (Robert Glen) Gray

"The devil has no claim on my life."

"Christ died to separate the one He loves from the sin He hates."

"He has done so much for us; will I live my life for Him?"

Ed Greene

"Beloved, let the fact of what our Lord suffered for you grip you, and you will never again be the same."

Oliver B. Greene

1915-1976

"I am in your hands; do with me, whatever God will permit you to do; you can take from me no more than my life."

Offrus Greizinger

1538

"There have been times I've disappointed the Lord, but He has never let me down."

"The most miserable person in the world is a person who is saved who knows what it is to walk with the Lord, and then walks away."

"The only real friends you will ever have outside of God, are your Christian friends."

"You can leave the church without leaving the church."

"Pick up the pieces and give them to God and let Him love you."

"When we go to a far country, it breaks the heart of God."

"The devil knows he can't get our salvation, so he goes after our joy."

"Don't compromise your convictions."

"It doesn't take long for your flesh to let you down."

"The devil paints some great pictures."

Chris Haizlip

"He who denies the virgin birth denies Bible Christianity, smites the mother of our Lord with shame, snatches the crown of deity from His brow, strips Him of His sinless humanity, makes His cross a blood-stained failure and bids us face eternity with no light in the darkness."

I. M. Haldeman

1845-1933

"Our Lord has called us to be fishers of men and we don't have time to waste."

Bill Hall

"There can be nothing clearer, as an all-inclusive proposition, than that no Christian church of any sect can tolerate dancing by its communicants; for nothing is plainer than that no dancer can be a Christian."

"Cain was offering his good deeds and it was a bloodless offering."

Mordecai Ham

1877-1961

"Every time some misfortune comes, the Devil will try to use it to upset our faith and cause us to doubt God."

"I tell you, when we really believe that souls are lost and that truth is pressed home to us to the extent that our hearts break, people are going to get saved."

"The yoke of Jesus is always easy for the true sheep, but it will rub a goat's neck raw."

"The reason the world is going to hell is that not enough people care."

"The hardest task anybody ever had is to win unsaved people over a crowd of ungodly church members ... People are going to Hell by the millions that way, stumbling over inconsistent church members!"

"But there is no place on earth where God gets as close and is as real as in the house of God."

"Let us let the world know that we still believe in the religion of Christ; that we still believe it can solve every problem of the human race; that we still believe that the greatest thing on earth is to follow God and live for God; that we still believe that Christ can make human life glorious, wonderful and worthwhile."

Joe Henry Hankins

1889-1967

‘Farewell, ye saints, farewell;

What, if I meet this end!

Ere long the Lord shall come,

Our only Leader, Friend:

Joyous I wait the glorious day,

With you to walk in white array.’

sung by Gerrit Hase-poot at his martyrdom

1500's

"They didn’t ‘hold’ revivals in those days, they turned them loose!"

"There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home."

"I was converted during an old-fashioned revival - not a modern, fashionable, harmless little revival, but an old-fashioned revival that stirred the saints and saved sinners and set the angels rejoicing and put the devil’s program in reverse... where ‘grace taught our hearts to fear and grace our fears relieved; how precious did that grace appear the hour we first believed!'"

"I thank God that my God is an eye opener."

Vance Havner

1901-1986

"We need to press on because the work of our God is great."

A. V. Henderson

"Trust and obey is the first law of spiritual progress."

Harold Henniger

"Only God can solve men's problems."

"A brand new Christian gave out a tract today, have you?"

"It is God's business to save them, but they are not going to be saved unless they hear it."

"Be assured if you are trying to do something for God, the devil is trying to destroy you."

"I can't disciple unless I myself am a disciple."

"One of the most dangerous things we can do is to proclaim with the lips and then live for the devil with our lives."

"It is only by the grace of God that any of our children turn out for the Lord."

Carl Herbster

"All of us have the potential for powerful, personal revival."

"Do not get so focused on serving that you forget to be satisfied with God."

"We should care about our thoughts, because God does."

"Your griping tells everyone what you are made of."

Mark Herbster

"When I have considered others under these circumstances, I have thought it very dreadful; but now God hath called me to it ... I can cheerfully embrace it as an easy passage to glory; and though death separates from the enjoyments of each other here, it will be for a very short time, and then we shall meet in such enjoyments as now we cannot conceive of, and forever enjoy each other’s happiness."

Benjamin Hewling

1664-1685

"As for the world, there is nothing in it to make it worth while to live, except we may be serviceable to God therein."

William Hewling

1667-1685

"As the strokes fell upon me, I had such a spiritual manifestation of God's presence, as the like thereof I never had nor felt, nor can with fleshly tongue express, and the outward pain was so removed from me, that indeed I am not able to declare it to you, it was so easy to me, that I could well bear it, yea, and in a manner, felt it not, although it was grievous, as the spectators said, the man striking with all his strength (yea, spitting in his hands three times, as many affirmed) with a three corded whip, giving me therewith thirty strokes."

Obadiah Holmes, Baptist preacher whipped in Massachusetts in 1659

1609-1683

"All Americans are spoiled, just some more than others."

Derek Hopkins

"The Lord's will is not a mystery."

Baron Howerton

"Life is too short to go through it with bitterness."

"Man's greatest problem is spiritual, and that is why we need a Saviour."

"The Lord is seldom early, but never late."

"Wisdom is the ability to look at all of life through God's eyes."

"Jesus went to the cross because God is holy and sin must be punished."

John K. Hutcheson, Sr.

"The average Christian lives and dies and never has the foggiest idea of how holy and righteous God really is."

"Jesus Christ was God’s Christmas Gift, and God never gives anything but the best!"

"When we are truly grateful, even the bitter things in life taste sweet."

"A lot of sins committed today are a result of a lack of genuine gratitude in the heart."

"If somehow we could see the extreme importance of winning souls to Christ, I believe that we would go to any extreme short of violating the Scriptures in order to get sinners saved."

"God give us in government some born-again, blood-washed believers who have a backbone made of iron and a will of steel, who will govern by Bible principles and who will stand up for the right things in this country."

"If America gets right with God, it will be when we as individuals get right with God."

Curtis Hutson

1934-1995

"Teaching is an accumulation of facts, but preaching brings people to a decision."

"We won't see God's fire fall unless we provide a sacrifice."

"The fire won't fall if you are worried about your future."

Tony Hutson

"Bol, Visu Masih, Ki Jah - Shout the victory of Jesus Christ!"

John Hyde "Praying Hyde" - Missionary to India - to friends while he lay dying

1865-1912

"Heaven is like a mother who lovingly, kindly and spiritually, with the fragrance and sweet smell of Heaven, goes about her tasks every day; loving and being loved, caring for and being cared for, and doing the tasks that a mother ought to do."

"God especially loves the widows."

"One of the sweetest things in all of the Bible is the tenderness of God."

"God didn't call you for self-defense, He called you for His defense."

"Build a friendly church: the invitation begins at the door."

"You have already been commanded to be a missionary."

"Ladies and gentlemen, if we get to the place where we memorize this Bible and dot every fundamental i and cross every fundamental t and find out exactly who the Antichrist is and win all the battles we have to win, if we lose our tears, we have lost our right to exist!"

"The same Devil that put these Christians into lions' mouths and in flames of fire is still alive today."

"Do not just come to church Sunday morning, pay your respects to God and drop your collection in the offering plate, but live for Christ and live in the Bible every day of the year, every hour of the day, every minute of the hour, every little second!"

"Learn to feed from a different trough."

Jack Hyles

1926-2001

"The bombs and missiles can change the leaders, but only Jesus Christ can change the people there."

Iraqi evangelist

"On Judgment Day, everyone will be a believer."

"As His child, you have access to all that is God."

Daniel Irvin

"Everything that Jesus did while He was here, He did it for you."

"It has never been popular to take a stand for God."

Maze Jackson

1923-1996

"I then learned an important lesson: that one who has been the subject of converting grace and is the child of God can, in the midst of the severest sufferings, fix his thoughts upon God and heavenly things, and derive great comfort and peace; but that one who had never made his peace with God would be unable to control his mind, under such sufferings, so as to understand properly the way of salvation, and repent and believe on Christ."

Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson

1824-1863

"Because I know Him, I owe Him."

Dave Jaspers

"Nothing can keep me from sharing the gospel, because God has given me and you the power of the gospel."

"My Lord Jesus Christ died for me on the cross, and how can I to keep my mouth shut?"

"People all over the world have one common characteristic: a need for salvation."

Henry John - Indian church planter

"Parents are the primary educators of their children."

"We never retire from serving God."

"In this world it is easy to get out of touch with God."

"It is a smart thing to fear God."

"We are not being unkind when we contend for the faith."

"Learn the value of praying: God will hear and answer."

"Most Christians spend their lives in wading pools, paddling around in shallow water."

"God uses men, but the men must be usable."

"In the Lord's work neutral men are the devil's allies."

'Any time God says "Go Forward", the devil says "Stand Still".'

"Since I am His child, nothing can happen to me that does not first pass the throne of God."

"Satan does not want you here at church."

"You ought never make key decisions based solely on outward circumstances."

"There is no event on God's prophetic calendar that must take place before the return of Jesus Christ."

"Nothing can shake or change the Word of God."

"It is one thing to trust God for the present moment, it is another thing to trust God for the unknown future."

"Don't let the devil's crowd ruin your life."

"All the money in the world won't fix a public school philosophy that is rotten - corrupt to the core."

"A life that proves the reality of your faith is a great defense."

"We have the same Holy Spirit as Paul."

"Soulwinning must become a passion before it becomes a program."

"The Lord is keeping heaven for us and keeping us for heaven."

Ed Johnson, Jr.

"Young man, attend to the voice of one who has possessed a certain degree of fame in the world, and who will shortly appear before his Maker: Read the Bible every day of your life."

Samuel Johnson

1709-1784

"There are no little things, everything is big to God."

"We need to be willing and ready to be used of God right where He has placed us."

Tim Johnson

"Do right if the stars fall!"

Bob Jones Sr.

1883-1968

"Lord, I hope you won't listen to a one of these preachers. They don't preach against sin, they don't visit door to door, they don't weep over sinners and they don't win souls. And they want You to change me until I'm most like one of them! O Lord, help these preachers to have sense enough to realize that if You were to answer their prayers I would be just as worthless and no account as they are! Please God, don't make me like any of these fellers."

Sam Jones

1847-1906

"O Lord, thou art forever in my thoughts."

Joost Joosten

burnt alive for his faith at Veer, in Zealand, 1560

"You learn to be independent by submitting to rules."

James Jorgenson

"Christians let three fourths of the world sleep ... ignorant of the simple truth that a Savior died for them."

"The future is a bright as the promises of God."

Adoniram Judson

1788-1850

"To find God's will, you must first lose your will."

Daniel Kaighen

"To make a great preacher it takes more than lip, it takes life."

"Is the goal of our ministry to win the argument or win the man?"

"The best thing you can do is agree with God Almighty and say, Yes, Lord, I want Your will to be done."

Bob Kelley

"The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness, 'a lantern to his feet and a lamp unto his paths.' He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation."

Francis Scott Key

author of the words to the "Star-Spangled Banner"

"Someone's morality will prevail."

Randall King

"This is nothing strange to me, for it was told me in the beginning of my conversion, that I must expect to die for the testimony of the truth; but it does seem strange to me, that the lords of Venice concur in such a purpose, and do not consider or weigh, that at the last day they will have to give an account before God, for innocent blood."

Julius Klampherer

former priest, upon hearing his death sentence pronounced in 1561

"In which removings I gained great experiences of God’s faithfulness, goodness and truth, in His great and precious promises; and I have gained some experience of my own heart’s deceitfulness and the power of my own corruptions, and the reigning power of Christ, and His captivating and subduing my sins - making conquests of the devil, world, and sin, and then giving me the victory, and canting me to triumph, and to bless His holy name ... I would not want [to have missed] those experiences and teachings that my soul hath enjoyed for all that I ever suffered."

Hanserd Knollys

1599-1691

"Yes, God can calm the storm, but sometimes He calms His child in the storm."

Roy Knowlton

"Thanks be to God for his daily blessings and his extraordinary deliverances."

David Kuykendall

"If you don't think you are in a battle, you are either lost or AWOL."

Al Lacey

"He divested himself of all the robes of riches and came over the embattlements of heaven and down the golden stairway, and came into this world by way of a barn door and went out by way of an old rugged cross."

"It seemed to me that Jesus Christ came down the aisle with a cross on His back, and with a crown of thorns on His Head, and with spital and slime running down his face. ‘What can I do for you?’ He asked. ‘Lord, do for me that which I cannot do for myself,’ I cried. "

"You won't have any trouble with any of the miracles of the Bible when you place God positionally where He belongs - in the beginning."

"If these could know Him, it would not seem unreasonable to believe that we for whom Christ died should be able to know Him personally, positively, intimately."

"Affliction is a moral gymnasium where God's children are conditioned for the race of life."

"If we could see the end from the beginning, as God does, we would laugh through our tears to see the wonderful improvement which our heavenly Father's chastisement works in our lives."

"The moment I leave here, I will be present with Him."

B. R. Lakin

1901-1984

"There is so much wood, hay and stubble in our hearts that we daily are tempted to construct monuments to self with this material."

Mark Landolt

"When this world rises, and opposes Thy words, so that our soul sighs to Thee in all severe distresses by which they seek to tear us away, then, O Lord, grant us to look to Thee for aid, and help us to overcome."

Hans Langmantel with his manservant and maidservant, in a written exhortation before their martyrdom in Germany

1529

"Your life is preaching what you believe."

"Our religion is made up too much of our peer group's religion."

"You always back up what you believe by doing it."

"Satan doubts the depth of God's love because he is so wrapped up in himself."

Carl Laurent

"King Ahab had command of a nation's wealth and a nation's army, but he had no command of his lusts and appetites."

"If we emphasize little the old familiar notes of Calvary, of hell, of sin ... we sound our death knell, dig our grave, write our epitaph."

"And the only way I know for any man or woman on Earth to escape the sinner's payday on Earth and the sinner's hell beyond -- making sure of the Christian's payday on Earth and the Christian's heaven beyond, the Christian's payday -- is through Christ Jesus, who took the sinner's place upon the Cross, becoming for all sinners all that God must judge, that sinners through faith in Christ Jesus might become all that God cannot judge."

"And when I see Ahab fall in his chariot and when I see the dogs eating Jezebel by the walls of Jezreel, I say, as the Scripture saith: '0, that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments; then had thy peace been like a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea !'"

"And as I remember that the gains of ungodliness are weighted with the curse of God, I ask you, 'Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not?'"

"We learn as we think of her death that the stag followed by hungry hounds with open mouths is far more happy than the woman who is pursued by her sins, that the bird taken in the fowler's net and laboring to escape is far more happy than she who has woven about herself a web of deception, that yon eagle beating against brass bars is far happier than the woman whose sin stares at her from dark rooms at midnight, and that the wild animal caught and suffering in the jaws of a steel trap is far happier than he who carries a guilty conscience in his bosom!"

"The Cross is the key to peace."

"Oh! I wish I could tell all men and women and all boys and girls everywhere to believe the truth that Satan always pays in counterfeit money, that all his pearls are paste pearls, that the nectar he offers is poisoned through and through."

R. G. Lee

1886-1978

"It is all God's for the taking."

Steven Leeper

"It is error, and error alone, that needs human support; and whenever men fly to the law or sword to protect their system of religion and force it upon others, it is evident that they have something in their system that will not bear the light and stand upon the basis of truth."

"... Nothing is more plain, than that the Almighty has set up the government of the United States .... Had such a government existed, from the beginning of the Christian era, what rivers of blood--what shocking havoc--how much imprisonment, confiscation, exile, torture and burning, would have been prevented! ... The notion of excluding religion from legislation, first arose in Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, in their colonial capacities; and has, since the revolution, been interwoven in the government of the United States."

John Leland

1754-1841

"Just about everyone has troubles."

"A crucified man is only looking one direction, he isn't going back, and he has no future plans for his own."

Paul Levin

1915-1996

"If you knew for certain that your days on earth were numbered, would you not want to spend more time in prayer?"

"In every life, for every good resolve, for every decision to do right, God says, 'Today.' And in every life, for every good resolve and every noble decision, Satan whispers, 'Tomorrow.'"

John Linton

1888-1965

"Nothing good or great has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm."

David Livingstone

1813-1873

"It is not so important that we cover the scriptures, but that we uncover the scriptures."

Joe Lopez

"It is a sin for you and me to claim to be a church, a New Testament Bible-believing church, and not see people saved."

"When Christ died on the cross of Calvary, He died with you and me in mind."

"Since there is a possibility for everyone to be saved, the Bible says that we are to pray for all men."

"Many Christians today have surrendered to problems which could have been conquered by getting alone with God."

"Oh, that we would, in time of trouble, wait at the throne of grace until God's answer comes!"

"There is a sweet and blessed confidence that comes to the heart of a Christian when he knows he is doing God's work in God's way."

"Yes, two-by-two soulwinning from house to house is God's greatest method of New Testament evangelism."

"I have been so thrilled to learn in recent years that most of the great promises of the Word of God were given to the saints in times of great distress or while they were in the depths of sorrow or in the fires of hot persecution."

"One of the most popular gods in the world today is Bacchus, the awful god of drink."

"People know the Lord Jesus as Savior, but we need to know Him as a friend and sanctifier, as an advocate, as our coming King, as our constant companion and friend."

"I am a fan of Jesus, and have been for going on sixty-two years, and I believe every word, every word that the Lord has ever said about anything in His book."

Tom Malone

"And thus I close with this that I will firmly adhere to Christ, and trust in Him, who is acquainted with all my needs, and can deliver me out of it."

Felix Mantz

A. D. 1526

"Is God finished calling missionaries out of this congregation, to reach this dark world?"

"If God has called you, he has already gifted you."

"The world is not evangelized."

"If you do not do what God has called you to do, how can you hear a 'well-done'?"

"Obeying the mission call is not throwing away your life, it is finding your life."

Jim Mardis

"One of the most dangerous things you can do is to look at your life and assume that you have so many supports and safeguards that you don't have to pay any attention to the Holy Spirit."

"While father is a general manager who sets the direction and tone for the team, mother is the coach whose day-by-day training and inspiration will determine how effective the team is in reaching its goals."

Arthur Maricle

"Are you living in the likeness of His death, or in the likeness of His resurrection?"

Steven E. Mays

"The truth must be defended anew in every generation."

Michael D. McCubbins

"Someday, when in the presence of our Saviour, we will thank Him for every burden, every trial, and every heartache."

J. Vernon McGee

1904-1988

"No man is ready to live until he is prepared to die."

Jim Mercer

"The work belongs to God."

"No one is impossible to get along with."

"Everyone will rise or fall to their own integrity level."

Judson Mitchell

"Let every one of us try to get one soul."

Dwight L. Moody, with six years of schooling, preached to fifty million people in forty years

1837-1899

"If the Macedonians could give in a great trial of affliction and deep poverty, everybody can give something."

Fred Moritz

"In a person so supernatural, the virgin birth was natural."

R. L. Moyer

1886-1944

"Just because you believe the Bible doesn't mean you are going to heaven."

"There's no mercy in hell. You don't have any timeouts. There are no exit doors."

"If your skin is thin you are riddled by sin."

"Quit riding the pine and start living for God."

"Every day we ought to ask ourselves: 'Am I right where I am supposed to be?'"

Darrell Murphy

"We are in a dark world, but the Bible will guide us through as a light shining on the way."

"The work of the Lord centers around building local churches."

"If you want God's direction, you must walk close to Him."

"You have no right to choose a profession without asking God what He wants you to do to fulfill your debt, and you need to be personally involved in world evangelization no matter what your profession."

"The work of the Lord centers around local churches being established."

Ed Nelson

"If there is no cross here, there may not be a crown there. Use your problems to promote the purposes of God."

Hans A. Nikoley

"You keep thinking back and you will be missing what God has for you ahead."

Gary Norberg

"What is needed is a school that will teach a man how to go out with the Bible under his arms, faith in his heart, and in the power of the Holy Spirit begin in a vacant lot and build a church to the glory of God."

"If you get the great inside meaning of the death of Christ you have the whole Bible plan of salvation."

J. Frank Norris

1877-1952

"The Lord would not leave mankind destitute of the hope of gaining eternal life."

Jim Norton

"Our God - He is the Lord - as much today as He was then."

"Rebellion is starting at an earlier age, but so is music awareness."

"God is not going to bless us for moving the mark."

Gary Ohlemacher

"Our ministry direction is not determined by what we teach, but by what we tolerate."

Les Ollila

"Every Baptist a missionary."

Johan Gerhard Oncken

1800-1884

"If a Christian will avoid sin, he will not have to resist the sin, and that will keep the Christian from committing sin."

"Christian character is the subconscious doing of right."

"For success, add reading God's Word and following the prompting of God's Spirit to build character."

Jeff Owens

"If fifty percent of members in the average Baptist church would get saved, we would have a national revival."

"Men invent all kinds of cults and false systems in their effort to throw conviction aside."

Monroe Parker

1909-1994

"All the skepticism of Europe would hide its head in foolish shame; and all its doubts would dissolve under one glance of the new light that Jesus, and Jesus alone, pours from the converted Cannibal's eye."

"If thus thrown back upon your own soul, alone, all, all alone, in the midnight, in the bush, in the very embrace of death itself, have you a Friend that will not fail you then?"

John G. Paton

1824-1907

"And there the Lord opened the sense of my unbelief that I might at last remember my sins and be converted with all my heart to the Lord my God, who had regard for my abjection, and mercy on my youth and ignorance, and watched over me before I knew Him, and before I was able to distinguish between good and evil, and guarded me, and comforted me as would a father his son."

"For I am very much God's debtor, who gave me such grace that many people were reborn in God through me and afterwards confirmed, and that clerics were ordained for them everywhere, for a people just coming to the faith, whom the Lord took from the utmost parts of the earth, as He once had promised through His prophets: To Thee the gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth and shall say: `How false are the idols that our fathers got for themselves, and there is no profit in them'; and again: `I have set Thee as a light among the gentiles, that Thou mayest be for salvation unto the utmost part of the earth.'"

"In the light, therefore, of our faith in the Trinity I must make this choice, regardless of danger I must make known the gift of God and everlasting consolation, without fear and frankly I must spread everywhere the name of God so that after my decease I may leave a bequest to my brethren and sons whom I have baptised in the Lord---so many thousands of people."

St. Patrick

born about 385 A. D.

"Whosoever perverts the oracles of the Lord ... he is the first-born of Satan."

"Eighty and six years have I served Christ and He has done me nothing but good; how then could I curse Him, my Lord and Saviour?"

Polycarp

69-156

"There is one appointment you will never be late for."

"What are you doing to answer a prayer from hell?"

Mark Priem

"God knows that if people begin to dress like the world in scant attire and lose their "blush," that they will soon fall and find themselves doing things God never intended."

"It seems that some have just enough religion to innoculate them against a good case of happy salvation! "

"Let us hasten to tell others about Jesus so they, too, can have a real Thanksgiving."

"The way to be unhappy is to be ungrateful."

Hugh F. Pyle

"I tremble for some of you, fearing you are too negligent, and make our Master's work too much a by-business"

"O, beware of it, I pray you; for we are called out from the world, and from every people under heaven; and our prosperity wholly depends on our following our heavenly Leader; and if we do not, God will raise him another people, and we shall sink as others have done before us."

"It seemed as if there never was any person so vile as I, nor any one possessed of such heart alienation, and enmity to God in all his nature, and to the manifestations of his spirit and power; no one that felt such unreconciliation to God, in every sense of the word."

"Let us, I pray you, have a strife among us, not "Who shall be the greatest?" but who shall be the least of all-who shall be the humblest-who shall be the most of a servant-who shall lay the lowest at the feet of Jesus-who shall bring forth the most fruit to the glory of God?"

"See to it, that we do not get any new-fangled, heady, wordy, tonguey doctrine of men, which leads from Christ instead of leading to him."

"If I had my life to live over again, I would be more zealous than I ever have been."

Benjamin Randall

1749-1808

"I could care less what the wishes of the people are, I want to know what God wants."

"Have a ministry that will warn them and give them something worth living for."

John Rawlings

"No one can be right with God and wrong with his pastor, brother or family."

Mike Ray

"Just because you don't believe in hell doesn't mean that there isn't a hell."

"If you don't believe in hell, that don't change it."

Percy Ray

1910-1991

"God loved the whole world so much that He provided a way of salvation for every single man and woman and boy and girl, and any person who is willing to be saved can be saved."

"Who, for your own sake and for the sake of those you love, will turn from your sins to Jesus?"

"Any pleasure that would keep you from Christ is a sinful pleasure that will doubtless cause you anguish, heartache, tears and remorse."

"Character is doing right without regard to inward desire, outward pressure, or eventual outcome."

"Perhaps nothing in the world so hinders the work of the Lord Jesus Christ as does the fussing and fighting of our churches."

"Many an individual has a cold heart, a barren life, a ruined testimony because of an unwillingness to humbly confess sins."

"To hear some people talk, one would think that being a Christian is little better than being in prison or being hog-tied and hobbled."

"We need hell-fire and damnation 'cut it out' preaching."

Bill Rice

1912-1978

"Don't apologize for your convictions."

Bill Rice III

"To leave this matter of saving souls to preachers is not only heartless; it is inexcusably wicked."

"What a compelling motive we have for prayer, for preaching, for soul winning when we learn that every responsible human being who leaves this world without a definite change in heart, immediately lifts his eyes in Hell, tormented in flame!"

"His brokenhearted cry on the cross, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do," shows God's heart toward sinners."

"We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime."

"Put bread before the family."

"After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother."

"According to the Bible, a genuine answer to prayer is getting what you ask for."

"So, I tell you, it is foolish to expect the infinite God to place the dynamite of Heaven in the careless hands of a Christian who does not know the travail of soul that Christ had, and has not entered into the burden for sinners and the sense of shame over sin."

"You may be lonely, poor, and cold, neglected by the children, forgotten by your friends, yet may have the glad Christmas joy in your heart as Paul had, shut up in prison cells at Rome!"

"It is better to be sick in the will of God than well outside His blessed will."

"Sex appeal alone is the poorest basis in the world for a happy marriage."

"You cannot do God's work without God's power."

"The world never burned a casual Christian at the stake."

"We'll say good night here, and good morning up there."

"To keep the faith, run with the right crowd."

"People go wrong in their fellowships before they go wrong in their doctrine."

"Prayer is asking; the answer to prayer is receiving."

"I still, from my armchair, preach in great revival campaigns. I still vision hundreds walking the aisles to accept Christ. I still feel hot tears for the lost. I still see God working miracles. Oh, how I long to see great revivals, to hear about revival crowds once again! I want no Christmas without a burden for lost souls, a message for sinners, a heart to bring in the lost sheep so dear to the Shepherd, the sinning souls for whom Christ died. May food be tasteless, and music a discord, and Christmas a farce if I forget the dying millions to whom I am debtor; if this fire in my bones does not still flame! Not till I die or not till Jesus comes, will I ever be eased of this burden, these tears, this toil to save souls."

written a few days before his death, December 1980

"If you were enough like God, some one wouldn't like you."

John R. Rice

1896-1980

"There are a lot of people who would come to Jesus Christ if we would step out and help them come to Jesus Christ."

Richard Rich

"It is a great thing when an immortal life is launched on the sea of time and started toward the haven of eternity."

"Ah, it is better to be a good man than a millionaire; better to grow in grace than to accumulate gold; better to know and yield to a Divine guidance than discover acres of diamonds; better to feel the Father's love than to fill the coffers with earthly treasure."

"Every day you spend, every hour I spend in health and prosperity as the special object of God's favor, is occasion for this morning's text, and with the downgoing of the sun we are ingrates indeed if we say not from a heart full to overflowing, 'Hitherto hath the Lord helped us'."

"It is well-nigh a pity that we can't appreciate our own preservation until somebody else is stricken at our very side."

"Hope in God is the prophecy of its consummation."

"When we get God's conception of the soul's worth, no sacrifice will seem too great to make in the effort to save it; when we get God's conception of a soul's worth, no obstacle will seem insurmountable; when we get God's conception of a soul's worth, we will sacrifice, as did Christ, to reclaim it from sin, believing with Solomon, 'He that winneth souls is wise.'"

"Worldy people may have ambitions in many directions, the true Christian's ambitions should find expression in a single course, 'He that winneth souls is wise.'"

"Is it not a mistake to suppose that only sample saints can enjoy the guidance of the Spirit of God; that only a few of the world's great souls have been selected as the subjects of His special favor?"

"No Old Testament prophet or New Testament apostle will consent to the charge of falsity, misrepresentation or discrepancy, if lodged against the Holy Word."

W. B. Riley

1861-1947

"Know you are saved, and base it on the Word of God."

Bobby Roberson

"We should remember that people can go to Heaven without knowing much of the Word of God, but they cannot go to Heaven without knowing Jesus Christ as Savior."

"There is no time for delay, for men are passing out into eternity without knowing Christ."

"Every agency and every organization of the church should be directed toward one end - the winning of the lost."

"Life is an adventure!"

"Everything rises or falls on leadership."

"It takes three to thrive: Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday night."

"Without a zeal for souls, the work of our Lord will fail."

"We ought to be stirred in our souls against sin and condemn it in every sermon."

"No Sunday School can be called great that does not have a conviction that the Bible is the Word of God. "

"We don't have time to fight the brethren."

"Even disappointment has a redeeming feature, for when I am disappointed in myself and in others, I lean more heavily upon God, for our God is One who never fails or disappoints His children."

"The right medicine for America is the Word of God."

Lee Roberson

"Whenever we believe God has done us wrong, we are believing a lie."

"We desparately need God."

"Oh, that God would open our eyes to see how much we need Him."

Bob Roberts

"Give a man an open Bible, an open mind, a conscience in good working order and he will have a hard time to keep from being a Baptist!"

"Jesus was immersed ... why do anything if you are not willing to do what Jesus did, and what He commands?"

A. T. Robertson

1863-1934

"There's no way to overcome sin apart from the Saviour."

"Slipping out into eternity is God’s way of graduating you."

"What you do before sunup determines whether you have victory before sundown."

"I don't live by preference, I live by conviction."

"My emotions help me with my devotions."

"Death is sort of an underpass to Glory: slipping out into eternity is God’s way of graduating you."

"God is the God of the impossible, as well as the God of the possible."

"We have let the superficial take the place of the supernatural."

"No one ever brought charges against God and had it stand up in court."

Lester Roloff

1914-1982

"Those that threatened us have been confounded - our God is great!"

Peter Rumachik

"It is your job to share the Word of God."

David Rupe

"A spiritual hunger for righteousness, a longing for a deeper and richer fellowship with Jesus Christ, and an aspiration for a higher comradeship with God, are a necessary part of the soul-winner's inner equipment."

"Prayer is the Christian's most glorious privilege, most enlarging opportunity, and most essential obligation; for it opens the door to communication with God, makes easier his access to men, and is the surest way to bring God and men together in saving and keeping relationship."

"Study that sermon (Acts 2:14-40), and you will find that Peter preached the deity of Christ, the rejection of Jesus Christ as the darkest sin, the resurrection, hell, the enduement of the Holy Ghost, the final victory of Christ's gospel over sin, Christ's second advent, repentance, faith, baptism."

"If I have any power, it is this: there is never an hour, day or night, but that I can close my eyes and weep over a lost world."

"Wallow in the Word." (said on his deathbed)

Lee R. Scarborough

1870-1945

"That flesh nature has not gotten one whit better since you were born."

"God alone has the right to be God, but He has given us the right to be godly."

"Dissatisfaction stems from what you think you deserve, and it is the number one tool of Satan to destroy your relationships."

"I want to be rich where it matters most."

Jack Schaap

"Lord, help us to choose God."

Gavan Searles

"The day we got saved we got on board the old ship of Zion, and our destination is the other side, and we will arrive safe on board, we are going to arrive safe on the other side."

Buster Seaton

1951-2002

"I had rather be tortured ten times every day, and then finally be roasted on a gridiron, than renounce the faith I have confessed."

Jeronimus Segerson

Letter from a Dutch prison before being burned in 1551

"What we do is an expression of what we are."

"How we behave is an expression of what we believe."

"The servant's responsibility is to serve the master."

"We serve God because of, not in order to."

"The Christian life is not slightly better, but completely different."

"The place we give to Scripture, is the place we give to Jesus."

Clarence Sexton

"God is never surprised."

Ralph Sexton Sr.

"When we take our last breath, our opportunity to do something for God will die with us, but our influence will live on."

Tom Sexton

"This morning I would have you pause on the threshold and rejoicingly remember that, amid the light and the shadow, the joy and the sorrow, the life and the death, amid the many new, untried and changing things, we shall have no new or untried Bible, no new or untried Gospel, no new or untried God!"

T. T. Shields

1873-1955

"If you are saved, Satan can't have your soul, but he wants to make you a stumblingblock to others so he can have their souls."

"Nine out of ten church members are crooks: they do not tithe."

"Parents so easily 'divorce' a fundamental church today, and the children are the ones who suffer."

Phil Shuler

"There will be no 'empty mansions' in Heaven."

"I believe every one of you ought to learn to use the word hallelujah."

"I cannot contain the message that burns in my bones."

"You may not need dying grace, comforting grace and enduring grace just now; but as surely as the trial comes, God will delight to demonstrate His sufficient grace."

"The longer we live and the more tears we shed, the more homesick we become for Heaven."

"The truly born-again person can never become adjusted to this world."

"The highway of this life is marked with heartaches."

"Spirit filled people are singing people."

Harold B. Sightler

1914-1995

"If you are not right with your parents you are not right with God."

Jerry Sivinsky

"Do not take that fatal last step over one of God's three deadlines."

"I believe the most horrible quartet of words in all of the Bible is when the Lord Jesus Christ looked into the face of those Pharisees and said: 'shall never be forgiven'."

"Who knows whether this may be God's last call, His last effort to save you."

J. Harold Smith

1910-2001

"With our Lord, everything from the throne of God and clouds of glory to the sparrow's fall, the five loaves and two fishes, and every hair of every head was definitely related to His Father; none existed apart from the Father's love and care."

"It is tough on the scribes and Pharisees and the straight-laced theologians to have to face the fact that God Almighty made the whale just to play and have a good time in the great waters."

Noel Smith

1900-1974

"Well," I said to my dear old friend, "I cannot trust myself, for I am nothing; and I cannot trust in what I have, for I have nothing; and I cannot trust in what I know, for I know nothing; and so far as I can see my friends are as badly off as I am."

Rodney "Gypsy" Smith

1860-1947

"We have an authoritative Bible that is the Word of God."

"Our nation's rehab program: preachers with steel in their backbone and fire in their belly who know the power of God."

"God's people can do well in a pagan culture, the sky is the limit - everyone is a prospect!"

"When someone changes the game plan of the gospel, they have created something that is not the gospel."

"It is Jesus' works that save you, not your works."

Shelton Smith

"Strength comes from God."

Trevor Spencer

"We ought to pray more for our pastors, that God would give them a backbone made out of cement and an iron rail up their shirttails instead of a sweet potato vine."

Harvey Springer

1907-1966

Lamentations 3:39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

"If we would learn to profit by our prosperity, we should not need so much adversity."

"Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space."

"Nothing promotes true sympathy like a kindred experience."

"So I gather, first, that concerning the servants of our Lord Jesus Christ a great charge from Him is a guarantee of great supplies."

"As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them."

"Comparatively few of our hearers are destroyed by outrageous and flaming vices, such as blasphemy, theft, drunkenness or uncleanness, but crowds of them are perishing by that deadly smoke of indifference that casts its stifling clouds of carelessness around them, and sends them asleep into everlasting destruction."

"It is the goodness of God who is omniscient to see sin, just to hate it, powerful to punish it, yet patient towards the sinner."

"The sin, the cavilling, the slander, the selfishness, the hardness of heart of those about him, must have worn down his holy soul, and made him every day a Man of sorrows."

"Where God is, there is the majority."

"Though the words of ministers may be sweet, the words of God are sweeter; though original thoughts may have the novelty of freshness, yet the ancient words of God have the ring, the weight, the value of old and precious coins, and they shall not be found wanting in the day when we shall use them."

"Mercy and grace are for the sinful, for none others need them; and God's grace comes to us when we are far off by wicked works. Free grace breaks forth like a mighty flood, and sweeps in torrents over the hills of our transgressions, rising above the high Alps of our presumptuous sins. Twenty cubits upward doth this sea of grace prevail till the tops of the mountains of iniquity are covered."

"I could wish that every time the clock struck it said: 'By grace are ye saved.'"

"May the Holy Ghost enable His servants to keep the beacon fire blazing to warn sinners of the rocks, shoals, and quicksands which surround them."

"Go back, then, a little way to the choice mercies of yesterday, and though all may be dark now, light up the lamps of the past, they shall glitter through the darkness, and thou shalt trust in the Lord till the day break and the shadows flee away."

"What Jonah learned in the great deep, let me learn this morning in my closet: 'Salvation is of the Lord.'"

"A child of 5, if properly instructed, can as truly believe and be regenerated as any adult."

"We would fain go to our chambers and weep; but since our business calls us away, we will first pray our Beloved to print the image of His bleeding self upon the tablets of our hearts all the day, and at nightfall we will return to commune with Him, and sorrow that our sin should have cost Him so dear."

"We shall be departing from all we have known and loved here, but we shall be going to our Father's house - to our Father's home, where Jesus is - to that royal city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God."

"The thought of delight in religion is so strange to most men, that no two words in their language stand further apart than 'holiness' and 'delight.'"

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

1834-1892

"If the Son of God took time to get set, what are you doing without getting God's help in your life?"

Chris Stansell

"Each one of us comes to the point where Adam and Eve stood, with the two roads - the road of obedience and the road of disobedience - stretching away before us."

"Out of the heart are the issues of life, and until hearts of stone and sin are taken out of us, and hearts of flesh to love God are put into us, we cannot please God nor walk worthily before our fellowmen."

"'Ye must be born again' is the ultimatum of Heaven, and on no ground whatsoever is it possible to get by it."

John Roach Straton

1875-1929

"Some seek to live within the sound of church and chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell."

C. T. Studd

1862-1931

"If Jesus Christ should become pastor of one of the leading churches in this city and talk as straight to them as He did to the treacherous Jerusalem set in the Temple, I wonder how long He would hold His job?"

"I'm no spiritual masseur or osteopath. I'm a surgeon, and I cut deep."

Billy Sunday

1863-1935

"Do we really see those around us, or do we only see those overseas?"

Ken Taylor - campus missionary in Miami, FL

"Some of you know how to win a soul to Christ, and you won't win a soul to Christ."

"We can all agree on one thing: Thank God, He stooped from heaven to save our never-dying souls."

Randy Taylor

"But the true faith must be implanted in the heart of man by God; and to Him we daily pray that He would give us His Spirit, to understand His Word and Gospel."

Hendrick Terwoort

shortly before his martyrdom by Queen Elisabeth, July 22, 1575

"There is more we should and can be doing for the Lord Jesus Christ."

"Like Jonah, we are more concerned about gourds than about the souls of men."

Derek Thomas

"To lack the Holy Spirit is to lack salvation."

"You couldn't lose your salvation, even if you tried."

"The greatest calling in all the world is the calling to win souls."

Dwight Tomlinson

"Oh, it is the only thing worth doing, to save souls; and men, and women, we can all do it!"

R. A. Torrey

1856-1928

"You can't teach your people to pray if you don't know how to pray."

"You can't behave right when you don't believe right."

"You will carry the scars of sin all your life."

L. E. Traxler

"I find that the more spiritual and godly and holy a person is, and the more time a person spends with God, the more a person will be willing to listen, because God's Word says "He heareth the cry of the afflicted."

"Friend, you are going to have opposition until the day you die."

"An individual's or an institution's theology may be correct today; however, if the music is wrong, the theology will be wrong tomorrow."

"No individual ever learned to be happy in life without first learning to submit."

"Do not be discouraged while soulwinning. Keep at it and look for the one who is looking for you."

Jack Trieber

"Its teaching is that the one High Priest for sinful humanity has entered into the holy place for all, that the veil is forever rent in twain, that the mercy seat is uncovered and opened to all, and that the humblest soul in all the world, if only he be penitent, may enter with all boldness and cast himself upon God."

"Oh, if you have the tendency to harshness, to censoriousness, to uncharitableness, put it utterly away, it is so disastrous in its blinding and blighting effect on life!"

"We should especially see to it that we find occasion for thinking of our blessings when the dark and cloudy days come, for one of the ways to drive those clouds away is to recall the days of sunshine and mercy and blessing."

"Ingratitude is unmanly when it is toward man, and treason when it is against God."

"It is of vast importance that we give ourselves often to the blessed task of enumerating our many mercies, then we shall find that these blessings come to us faster than we can count them."

"Be not afraid of this last and greatest enemy called Death, if your trust is in Christ."

"To do the will of God is the greatest achievement."

"If we knew what fierce battles some were fighting and what weighty burdens they were carrying, it would teach us lessons of restraint and charity and contentment beyond any that we have ever known."

"And so He bids us, by His own fatherly care, not to let anxiety eat like a destroying microbe into our life."

"There is no failure in God's will, and no success outside of God's will."

"We look around us and see certain personalities who are growing and expanding and triumphing in a remarkable way in the Christian life, as it seems to us, and then we look at ourselves and behold how little the progress, how meager the growth, how few the attainments that we have made and are making in the Christian life."

George Washington Truett

1867-1944

"Dear citizens, thus must all the children of God suffer; this way was trod by the saints of God, the prophets, and so many pious men."

Joos Verbeeck

burnt alive in Antwerp, 1561

"If we however, had sought the temporal life, he [the inquisitor] indeed represented it to us in very fair colors; but the almighty God be praised and thanked for His great grace, for my mind is still determined at this day, rather to die honorably than to live ignominiously."

Joost Verkindert

August 20, 1570

"Inconsistent lives counteract the gospel."

G. B. Vick

"God's people have to get to the point that they see that people need the Lord."

"God is well pleased with you when you give."

"There comes a point where you'll have to quit taking on missionaries unless you really turn it over to God."

"When world leaders hold hands to pray, Muslims pray in the name of Allah, a false god."

"A little loneliness will help you - it will make you turn to God."

James Vineyard

"God is surely looking."

"Trouble should become a steppingstone to better understanding of the will of God and the teaching of the Bible, and also to mature and give us experience in our work for God."

"God could have kept Daniel out of the lions' den, Paul and Silas out of jail, the Hebrew children from the fiery furnace; but it was good for all these to go through these experiences."

"Trouble not only draws people together, but it also draws them to the Lord."

Tom Wallace

"Baptist Chaplains were among the most prominent and useful in the army."

George Washington

1732-1799

"Let Him be Who you call Him: Lord."

Jerry Wass

"God is awesome: outside of the realm of comprehensibility."

Ron Webber

"You can't serve where you are going to be - you have to serve where you are."

"Enjoy the journey and don't try to throw someone out of the boat."

Ron White

"Lord bind me, restrain me, but do not let my heart lead me."

Chad Williams

"The more we know about Christ, the more confident we will be."

Kevin Williams

"Don't get bogged down in your troubles."

"Receive joy from obeying God's Word."

"Stand on faith and trust in God."

Matt Williams

"Do not expect your school and church to accomplish in the life of your child what must first be accomplished by his parents."

"A lukewarm heart learns how to accommodate religion and resist the Holy Spirit."

Ronald E. Williams

"Many people have a prayer time, few have a prayer life."

Tom Williams

"Yes, for those who travel the pathway of sin there is an engulfing pall of night that isolates them from all good and true fellowship."

John Summerfield Wimbish

1915-1982

"If you love God, you need to give and sacrifice and work and witness and compel people to come to Jesus Christ."

Kevin Wynne

"Prophecy is unique to Christianity - the Creator telling what will happen to His creation."

Jimmy Young

"O God, to whom the Moslem World bows in homage five times daily, look in mercy upon its peoples and reveal to them Thy Christ."

Samuel Marinus Zwemer

1867-1952

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