Quotes from great preachers II

Quotes- Great Christian Authors

·The tragedy of this hour is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people. Oh! The horror of it.                                                                             -Leonard Ravenhill

·Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition.                                        -S. Chaohvick

·   It is well to get rid of the idea that faith is a matter of spiritual heroism only for a few select of spirits. There are heroes of faith, but faith is not only for heroes. It is a matter of spiritual manhood. It is a matter of maturity.                                                                                                                 -P. T. Forsyth

·  When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposeth us all he can.                    -R. Sibbes

·  Revival and Evangelism, although closely linked, are not to be confounded. Revival is an experience in the church; evangelism is an expression of the church.                                                                          -Paul .S. Rees

· God helps seek popularity where iit counts- at the court of God.                                                                                    -Zepp

·If Christ waited to be anointed before He went to preach, no young man ought to preach until he, too, has been anointed by the HolyGhost.                                                                                                                 -F. B. Meyer

·As soon as cease to bleed, we cease to bless.               -Dr. J. H. Jowett

· We may preach and perish but we cannot pray and perish because some preachings are born in a tomb instead of a womb and nourished in a fireless, prayerless soul.                                                         -Leonard Ravenhill

·The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the spirit, fed by the flames of immortal love; and woe unto us, if, through oour negligence to stir up the gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.                                                                                                                   -Dr. R. Moffat

· The Church has halted somewhere between Calvary and Pentecost.                                                                                                               -J. I. Brice

· Until Self- effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in  the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we reach the point where  the grieved Holy Spirit withdraw- like the shekinah from the temple.                                                                - Dr. A. W. Tozer

· The same Christians who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.          -Vance Hawner

·There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eres are not found in the audience.                                                                  -C. G. Finney

·Give me the love that lead the way, the faith that nothing can dismay, the hope no disappointment tire, the passion that will burn like fire, let me not sink to be a clod: make me thy fuel, flame of God.                      -Amy Willson

·Ministry is neither a dream nor a trance. It is not a church tile or leadership position held in a local church. It is not an organization nor an association. It is a divine assignment handed down to a person by God.                                                                     -Bishop D. Oyedepo

·Do not get trapped in the folly of comparing yourself with others. Rather, discover your individuality and accept your responsibility.                                                                    -Bishop D. Oyedepo

·Short, powerful public prayers are the outcome of long secret intercession                                                                                          -E. M. Bounds

·God never intended the church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch converts.                                                                                                                -F. Lincicome

·The word is not waiting for a new definition of the gospel, but for a new demonstration of the power of the gospel                    -Leonard Ravenhill

·Be a man of prayer for your wife and your household… if you were sick and your wife is also sick, do you know that right on the sick bed, she is still expecting that you should pray for her.                                                                                                                                          -Dr. A. W. Tozer

·There is so much talk in our day but little prayer. There is much strong language and utterance but little power. There is much boasting hence God resisting the proud.                                                   -Isaiah D. Lawon