Quotes

"I think I never felt more resigned to God, not so dead to the world, its every respect as now; I am dead to all desire of reputation and greatness, either in life, or after death; all I long for is to be holy, humble and crucified to the world." -David Brainard 

"God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones." -D.L. Moody

“There was a day when I died, utterly died, died to George Mueller, his opinions, preferences, tastes, and will—died to the world, its approval or censure—died to the approval or blame even of my brethren and friends—and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.” -George Mueller
 
"Obedience is my path and the results are God's."  -C.K.
 
"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply"  -Hudson Taylor

"If we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God, and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else." -D.L. Moody

"Waiting is strengthening, not weakening."  -S.M. Davis

"God always directs the hungriest to those who know Him best."  -H.C.
 
"There are four things to remember when praying.  God hears prayer, God considers prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer." 
-Obtaining Answers to Prayer by E.M. Bounds
 
"What ever can pull you out of the altar will pull you out of God."  -B.H. Clendennen
 
"He who is not a praying man is not a Christian man."  -B.H. Clendennen
 
"Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections."  -F.B. Meyer
 
"The pure heart is clear, bright, transparently sincere; it seeks not to deceive.  It has no hidden motive, no selfish aims underlying a fair outside; it's aim is to be, not to seem."
-Pulpit Commentary

"May not a single moment of my life be spent outside the light, love and joy of God's presence and not a moment without the entire surrender of myself as a vessel for Him to fill full of His Spirit and His love." -Andrew Murray

"When the spirit of pride in all it's unnumbered forms and the spirit of self-dependence in it's endless diversity are destroyed in us by God's severe discipline and the brightness of His glory fills us, we are more ready to preach the Gospel than we are with all the diplomas of all the theological schools in our hands and all the rules of all the preaching books stereotyped within us...'To have prayed well is to have studied well.'  -Luther" -Powerful and Prayerful Pulpits by E.M. Bounds
 
"'They also serve who only stand and wait.'  Some of God's greatest workers are those shut out from active service, that they may learn to wield the weapon of all-prayer." 
-Streams in the Desert
 
"You hide the Word in your heart so that others can see Christ in you!  It is not just the tongue which reveals Christ to the lost but a broken and obedient heart.  It is not talent that builds Christ's church but God's presence which descends upon humans overtaken with humility and obedience to His Word."  -taken from a sermon from Miracles and Missions Digest

"Unless we are willing to pay the price, and sacrifice time and attention and what appear legitimate or necessary duties, for the sake of the heavenly gifts we need not look for a large experience of the power of the heavenly world in our work." -Andrew Murray

"You can have no more of the holiness of God than you have of the Holy Ghost, and you can have no more of the Holy Ghost than you're willing to accept of the holiness of God.  If you're not willing to cooperate with Him, He's not going to waste His time on you, but if He'll give me Himself, and I'll walk in that Self, then there's no limitation to my life."  -B.H. Clendennen

"You have no part in forgiveness until you have denounced the idols of this world which you have erected in this life."  -Paris Reidhead
 
"Defend the Bible?  I would just as soon defend a lion.  Just turn the Bible loose.  It will defend itself!  -Charles Spurgeon
 
"The Holy Ghost does not simply consecrate us to an institution or to a pursuit, but he consecrates us to God."  -Powerful and Prayerful Pulpits by E.M. Bounds

"He commonly brings His help in our greatest extremity, that His finger may plainly appear in our deliverance. And this method He chooses that we may not trust upon anything that we see or feel, as we are always apt to do, but only upon His bare Word, which we may depend upon in every state." -C. H. Von Bogatzky

"Remember, it is the very time for faith to work when sight ceases. The greater the difficulties, the easier for faith; as long as there remain certain natural prospects, faith does not get on even as easily as where natural prospects fail." -George Mueller

"He who has nothing in himself has all in God." — T. C. Upham, in "The Life of Madame Guyon"

“Revival is not some emotion or worked-up excitement; it is rather an invasion from heaven which brings to man a conscious awareness of God...Revival is that strange and sovereign work of God in which He visits His own people—restoring, reanimating, and releasing them into the fullness of His blessing...Revival is ultimately Christ Himself, seen, felt, heard, living, active, moving in and through His body on earth.” – Stephen Olford

 "Prayer-sacrifice is the forerunner and pledge of self-sacrifice.  We must die in our closets before we can die on the cross."  -Obtaining Answers to Prayer by E.M. Bounds

"What one generation tolerates, the next will embrace."  - John Wesley

Quotes Especially For Ladies :-)

"The woman that views her life as a wife and mother grudgingly, influences the entire household to think in the same way. She deprives everyone of the peace and joy that God intended to reign in a Christian home. Dear Mother, your bad attitude is infectious and the only inoculation against it is a complete embracing of what you were created to be."


"The career of motherhood and homemaking is beyond value and needs no justification. Its importance is incalculable." ~Katherine Short

"Feminism is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers, but slaves when they help their husbands." ~ G.K. Chesterton