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“Labor to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire called conscience.” George Washington “We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ‘except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.’ I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel.” Benjamin Franklin “I believe the Bible is the best gift God has given to man. All the good Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book.” Abraham Lincoln “On the third day he appeared to them restored to life, for the prophets of God had prophesied these and countless other marvelous things about him. And the tribe of Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared.” Josephus, Testimonium Flavianum “No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown …” William Penn “The Holy Spirit convicts us … He shows us the Ten Commandments; the Law is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ. We look in the mirror of the Ten Commandments, and we see ourselves in that mirror.” Billy Graham “I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law.” Charles Spurgeon, 1834-1892, Foremost preacher of the 19th century.
What is the
testimony of your closet? Can it bear witness to your sights and groans
and tears over the wickedness and desolations of the world? “Men have been helped to live by remembering that they must die.” Charles Spurgeon If their houses were on fire, thou wouldst run and help them; and wilt thou not help them when their souls are almost at the fire of hell? Richard Baxter, 1615-1691; Puritan Lecturer and Vicar of the English Midlands “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.” William Shakespeare
One of the earliest things a minister should do when he leaves college and settles in a country town or village is to begin open-air speaking. Charles Spurgeon “First, then, before you can speak peace to your hearts, you must be made to see, made to feel, made to weep over, made to bewail, your actual transgressions against the Law of God.” George Whitfield 1714-1770 – Preached in England, Scotland, Wales, Gibraltar, Bermuda and the American Colonies Ignorance of the nature and design of the Law is at the bottom of most religious mistakes.” John Newton “Christ said,’I came into this world for one reason – to reach and save lost souls!’ Yet, this was not only Jesus’ mission. He made it our mission as well: ‘And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature’” (Mark 16:15.) David Wilkerson “More souls have been won for Christ by preachers who did what little they could, than by renowned evangelists.” Richard Wurmbrand, 1909-2001; Messianic Jew and pastor; imprisoned and tortured for 14 years in communist Romania because of his faith. Mass crusades, to which I have committed my life, will never finish the job, but the one to one will. Billy Graham. “Before I can preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, Law, and judgment.” John Wesley, 1703-1791 British Evangelist, Founder of Methodism
“He who kneels the most, stands the best.” D.L. Moody “The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze this reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.” T.S. Eliot "Without knowledge of the Bible there can be no peace in the life of the Church or of society, and outside of it there is no real and abiding good; it is the one authority for the faith." John Wycliff; 1328-1384, early proponent of Reformation “The gate of heaven, though it is so wide that the greatest sinner may enter, is nevertheless so low that pride can never pass through it.” Charles Spurgeon “Tolerance is a virtue for those who have no convictions.” G.K. Chesterton
“The gospel has not been clearly preached if the hearer doesn’t know that not to make a decision is a decision.” Dan Arnold “The number one reason people don’t share their faith is that their walk doesn’t match their talk.” Mark Cahill, contemporary evangelist and open-air preacher; author of the book One Thing You Can't Do in Heaven “You cannot say ,’No, Lord,’ and mean both words; one annuls the other.” D. James Kennedy This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth! Keith Green, 1953-1982; Pioneer of contemporary Christian music “To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.” Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species. “Evangelism is about experiencing God. If you choose to be obedient, He will take you on a journey so exciting that your life will never be the same.” Bill Fay, Share Jesus without Fear If God has called you to be a missionary, your Father would be grieved for you to shrivel down into a king.” Charles Spurgeon
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for that day.” Abraham Lincoln “As by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth? The number of intermediate links between all living and extinct species must have been inconceivably great!” Charles Darwin “Less then two percent of believers in this country ever share their faith in Christ with others.” Dr. Bill Bright, born 1921, Founder of Campus Crusade for Christ
Before we can pray “Thy
Kingdom come,” we must be willing to pray “my kingdom go.”
Alan Redpath, 1907; British/US evangelist and pastor, e.g Moody “You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you! Catherine Booth, 1829-1890, Co-founder of the Salvation Army with her husband William, to minister to impoverished laborers of Victorian London. |
“A
thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles
Finney, 1792-1875, American evangelist and educator
“There
is a dreadful hell, and everlasting pains; where sinners must with devils
dwell, in darkness, fire, and chains.” Isaac Watts
“The
one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears
nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless works, and prayerless
religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we
pray.” Samuel Chadwick
Examine
yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not
know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you are
reprobates. But I trust that you will know that we are not reprobates.
Apostle Paul 
Memorial Church in Chicago