Thursday, January 1, 2009

Quotes on Prayer and Revival III

"If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all." - Ravenhill.

"Let me never become a slave to crowds." - A.W. Tozer."Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven?" -Thomas Watson.

"For unless your hearts are free from worldly hopes and worldly fears, you never will speak boldly, as you ought to speak. The good old Puritans, I believe, never preached better than when in danger of being taken to prison as soon as they had finished their sermon. And however the church may be at peace now, yet I am persuaded, unless you go forth with the same temper, you will never preach with the same demonstration of the Spirit and of power. Study, therefore, my brethren,-I beseech you by the mercies of God in Christ Jesus,-study your hearts as well as books; ask yourselves again and again whether you would preach for Christ, if you were sure to lay down your lives for so doing?" - Whitefield.

"Several years ago...An Uncle of mine, who was very sound, slipped in some good books into a suitcase one day...and I remember coming across a book by Ernie Reisinger called "Today's Evangelism" and I began to read it... I got half way through that book and this is no exaggeration... and I'm not speaking evangelistically... This is true. I fell out of that chair with such the fear of God upon my life, and I pressed my face into those old boards of that room in the city of Lima (third floor of an old building we were using for a church)... I pressed my face as far into those boards as they could get in fear as I could get... and cried out to God, "God, If you promise not to kill me for the way I've preached your gospel, I promise from here on out I'll never preach it that way again." - Paul Washer ('I Am Under Obligation')

"What will it cost me for God to break my heart?" - "It will cost youabsolutely everything." - Gerhard DuToit

"Passing along the road the other day, we thought we had found a very beautiful knife. On picking it up we found it to be only a handle without a blade. So do we hear very beautiful sermons- well written and well read-but they are without a blade. They cut out no cancers of sin and carve out no models of piety. Sermons must have blades!" - Anonymous

"I'm afraid from the presence of God. You know, we do little things, we criticize, we gossip and stuff. I was memorizing the first twelve chapters of Acts few years ago, and I phoned my wife five o'clock one morning. I was speaking at a bible institute, she thought that there was something wrong, and she said: "What's going on? " I said: "My darling I'm memorizing Acts Chapter 5, Ananias and Sapphira." and she said: "What about that?", I said: "Yes, they kept back part of the price, and you remember what happened. God struck them and they were dead." She said: "What do you think?" and I said: "Jannes(?) if we were living in Acts chapter 5 today, there will be very few christians who will be alive." I'm afraid of the presence of God." - Gerhard DuToit

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