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Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.

I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God

We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.

Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.

Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal

The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.

It is much easier to wear a cross than to bear a cross.

You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.

The darker it gets, the brighter your light will shine.

Men give advice; God gives guidance.

He who fears God fears no man.

Gethsemane is where He died; the cross is only the evidence.

Revival is the Spirit's passion within the believer to know and to obey the total will of God.

Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.

Tell me what time you spend alone with God ...
and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.

We are not eternity conscious enough.

If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.

You can't live wrong and pray right.

Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.

The church has paid a terrible price for statistics!

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

Redemption is a magnificent thing ..the life of God in the soul of man

Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.

Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!

To copy copies is not normally safe, but it is safe to copy Paul, for he was fully surrendered, wholly sanctified, completely satisfied,

There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.

How can you have a dead service with a living Christ?

Are you wiser in God (now) than you were last year at this time? Peter says we're to grow in grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Never have so many left so much to so few.

In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.

Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God.

A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.

Maybe you are the key to revival in your church.

Any method of evangelism will work - if God is in it.

Christianity is Christ plus nothing!

Holiness is not a luxury, it's a necessity. If you're not holy, you'll never make it to Heaven [Heb. 12:14].

Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped.

Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.

Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.

The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.

All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.

Church unity comes from corporate humility.

Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.

If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease?

The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God!

Only they who fulfill God's commands have a claim on the Lord.

Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says.

Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.

Christ has not conquered my affections if He has to compete for my attention.

To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.

Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?

A saint is good when nobody is looking.

The question isn't were you challenged. The question is were you changed?

What are you going to do when you get to eternity, if you can't stick in an hour with God down here?

Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.

Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation.

Notice to step out of time into eternity.

If Jesus came back today, he wouldn't cleanse the temple, he'd cleanse the pulpit.

The self-righteous never apologize.

Christ cared enough for sinners to die for them. Do we care enough for sinners to live to reach them?

You won't become a saint by studying your Bible; you'll become a saint by living it.

Faith that is going to be trusted is going to be tested.

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!

Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man's God comes and lives inside of Him!

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.

This life is a dressing room for eternity - THAT'S ALL IT IS!

One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.

The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.

LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!

I have no faith in my faith. My faith is in the faithful God.

In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.

Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!

Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it.

God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!

Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

As long as we are content to live without revival, we will.

When are people finally going to get serious about being serious?

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.

Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.

A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.

My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF ... my GOD.

A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

Faith is taking God at His Word.

Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have.

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.

The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned.

Nobody stood by Jesus. Maybe nobody will stand by you. It's a lonely life, but it's a glorious life.

The longer I live, the more I find I don't know

If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew.

You can have all of your doctrines right - yet still not have the presence of God.