What They Said

“The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell."

“God’s love in my life is not based upon my ability to do things.”

“And the business of preaching is not just to give a temporary word of comfort which will soon be forgotten; it is so to build us up in the faith that, whatever comes, we will be secure.”

“Pardon of sin and love of sin are like oil and water—they will never go together. All who are washed in the blood of Christ, are also sanctified by the Spirit of Christ.”

“We do not want, as the newspapers say, a Church that will move with the world. We want a Church that will move the world.”

“We are never in a more dangerous position and condition than when we are idle."

“Christ came into the world, and the purpose of His coming into the worlds is for us to know His love in a way that will delight us in God’s presence.”

“We ‘run with patience’; that means, go on with ‘patient endurance’.  This is one of the great secrets of the Christian life, the secret of knowing in its fulness the comfort and consolation of the Christian teaching.  We must take this exercise regularly.”

“Do not think for a moment that you have some great thing to do before you come to Christ. Such a notion is of the earth, earthy; the Gospel bids you come just as you are.”

“Our whole civilization is indeed very like the Titanic; alike in its power and its impotence, its security and its insecurity.”

“Christian people, the world is looking to you for teaching, for instruction, for an example of how to live  triumphantly.  So exercise your senses, lay hold on these things, look to the great heroes of the faith for inspiration.  Above all, ‘look unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith’, ……”

“God’s love has so much passion and power in it that it overrides common thinking.  I cannot think my way into God’s presence.  It is the love of God that overwhelmed me and open’s up the gate into His presence.”

“We must not even think of fleeing in danger’s hour.  Many have done so of course.  That is why the church in this country is as weak as she is today.”

“We ought not to be satisfied with the same kind of hearing, and reading, and praying, which satisfied us in years gone by. We ought to labor every year to throw more heart and reality into everything we do in our religion.”

"Now it is a rule of nature that the inward affects the outward, as light shines from the center of the lantern through the glass; when, therefore, the truth is kindled within, its brightness soon beams forth in the outward life and conversation."

"There is a distinction between walking before God and walking with God. To walk before God is to walk with an abiding sense of God's eye being upon us; to walk with a desire to do those things which are pleasing in his sight; to walk in his ordinances blameless; to walk before his people with our garments unspotted by the world; in a word, to walk before him in private as in public, alone and in company, before the Church and the world, by day and by night, as we should walk if we had a personal view of his glorious majesty in heaven before our eyes."

“Forgiven souls are HUMBLE. They cannot forget that they owe all they have and hope for to free grace, and this keeps them lowly."

"Grace will teach men & women to be meek & gentle when they are personally crossed, but grace will never teach them not to be angry when God is dishonored."

“The next condition of consecration, resulting from this, is the holding of our lives directly and always at the disposal of Christ. Not only must we be willing to do His will, whatever it is--but we must actually do it. This is the practical part. The moment Christ wants us for any service--we must drop everything and respond to His call. “

"Oh the blessedness of being a child of God! Can heart conceive or tongue express the heights and depths of grace and glory, the safety, the happiness, the honor, the bliss, the delight of being an heir of God and a joint-heir with Christ?"

"Be it ours today, Oh gracious Spirit, to be ruled and governed by Your divine authority, so that nothing false or sinful may reign in our hearts, lest it extend its malignant influence to our daily walk among men."

"There is no work which God has made - the sun, moon, stars and all the world - in which so much of the glory of God appears as in a man who lives quietly in the midst of adversity."