Minister Quotes

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery.

Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

If the presence of God is in the church, the church will draw the world in.

If the presence of God is not in the church, the world will draw the church out.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation.

You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.

Sin is the most expensive thing in the universe. Nothing else can cost so much.

Kings don't beg, they decree. They have only one destiny and that's to reign. God has made you king. Reign and rule, refuse to beg!

Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.

Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together.

Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.

The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

Every problem comes along with it's solution;

the bigger the problem, the bigger the testimony. Cheer up!

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA.

Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.

Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer.

Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.

A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart.

The Church must take right ground in regard to politics.

.. Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics.

Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery.

That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction, and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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.

There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience.

Unless the will is free, man has no freedom;

and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.

You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being.

I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be.

A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival.

That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it. When Christians have the spirit of prayer for a revival. When they go about groaning out their hearts desire. When they have real travail of soul.

Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel.

They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them.

Always respond to every impulse to pray.

The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown.

Your future is not ahead of you, it's trapped within you

I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself."

Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks.

It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end.

When you're anointed, you become blessed of God such that everything you touch or do prospers. To be "blessed" means to be empowered to prosper.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

The reason why wicked men and devils hate God is, because they see Him in relation to themselves. Their hearts rise up in rebellion, because they see Him opposed to their selfishness.

Don’t ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer.

That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.

If at the age of thirty you don't know what God has called you to do; you may never know.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city.

There's an anointing the Spirit of God brings into your life;

and that anointing gives you insight into the things of God. It opens the mind of God to you and unveils the riches of His glory to you. God said, "I will no longer hide my face from them," because of the outpouring of His Spirit, Hallelujah!

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

It is the great business of every Christian to save souls.

The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.

The most vital question to ask about all who claim to be Christian is this: Have they a soul thirst for God? ... Is their life centered on Him? Do they press forward more and more that they might know Him.

The church is always to be under the Word;

she must be; we must keep her there. You must not assume that because the church started correctly, she will continue so. She did not do so in the New Testament times; she has not done so since. Without being constantly reformed by the Word the church becomes something very different.

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.

Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

What is preaching? Logic on fire! Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire. A true understanding and experience of the Truth must lead to this. I say again that a man who can speak about these things dispassionately has no right whatsoever to be in a pulpit; and should never be allowed to enter one.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

Your Destiny is chosen by God, Your future is certain, whether you arrive there is up to you

It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.

Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment.

Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success.