Quotes from great Christian Preachers.

Quotes from great Christian Preachers.

· Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry?

Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let the patient die?

Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand?

Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you DAMNED?

                                                      -Leonard Ravenhill

· The church that is man managed instead of God governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college trained but not spirit filled works no miracles.                                                                                                  -Samuel Chadwick

·The man whose little sermon is ‘repent’ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a man- ‘off with his head’ you had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to heaven.                                                           -Joseph Parker

· Let me burn out for God. Afterall, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh that I may be a man of prayer!                                                                                                                        -Henry Martyn

·  Let Any man shut himself for a week with only bread and water, with no books except the bible, with no visitor except the HolyGhost, and I guarantee my preacher brethren, that man will either breakup or breakthrough and out.                                                      -Leonard Ravenhill

· Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction or literary polish, or cleverness of expression, but operates ‘in demonstration of Spirit and Power’                                                            -Arthur Wallis

· Most joyfully will I confirm with my blood that truth which I have written and preached.                                                    -John Huss

· Just as it was in the days of Elijah, the church in our day has been invaded by many prophets of baal, whose allegiance is not to our king, Jesus Christ, whose god is their belly, and who have no vision of heaven. Yet, they sit over congregation, soothing them with the balm of philosophy and motivational psychology as sermons.                                                                                                                                                                  -Gbile Akanni

· Cold prayers have no claim on heaven and no hearing in the courts above; fire is the life of prayers.                                                   -Isaiah D. Lawon

· It is impossible to mentally and socially enslave a Bible reading people                                                                                   -Horace Greeley

· I also often tell people that knowing what God has promised is information, but knowing what to do to actualize it is revelation.                                                                                                                             -Bishop O. Oyedepo

· Little prayer, little power; much prayer, much power; No prayer, No power.                                                                                   -Isaac

· Stop complaining, start asking. The reason is that complaining angers God while asking delights Him.                                      -Isaac

· The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.                                        -Vance Havner

· Repentance is not a few hot tears at the penitent form. It is not emotion or remorse or reformation. Repentance is a change of mind about God, about sin, and about hell.                                                                        -anonymous

· We have ten other new plagues more sinister and effective and mighty than those (worldwide and not confined  just to Egypt); yet, even these new plagues have not melted the heart of modern man but made it militantly wicked.                                                                                                       -anonymous

·Satan would have us increase even in Bible knowledge I believe, as long as we keep from prayer, which is the exercise of the instruction we have received through the word… prayer takes care of all spiritual maladjustments.                                          -Leonard Ravenhill

·The Gospel is a fact; therefore tell it simply.

The Gospel is a joyful fact; therefore tell it cheerfully.

The Gospel is an entrusted fact; therefore tell it faithfully.

The Gospel is a fact of infinite moment; therefore tell it earnestly.

The Gospel is a fact of difficult comprehension to many; therefore tell it with illustration.

The Gospel is a fact about a person, therefore preach Christ.

                                                                     -Archibald Brown

·A vision without a task makes a visionary; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision with a task makes a missionary.                                                                                                                               -Leonard Ravenhill

·  Someone now warns us least we become so heavenly minded that we are of no earthly use. The brutal, soul shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.                                                                                                                                                         -Leonard Ravenhill

·There are three persons living in each of us:

(1)        The One we think we are.

(2)        The one other people think we are.

(3)        The one God knows we are.                        -anonymous

· A sinning man will stop praying and a praying man will stop sinning.                                                                                       -anonymous