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Quotes by Clergyman
"You can have religion but not know Christ. It's having Christ that counts."
"Religion,” [some] argue, “may be all right for certain emotional people, but you can't beat a man who believes in himself.” But this self-confident generation has produced more alcoholics, more dope addicts, more criminals, more wars, more broken homes, more assaults, more embezzlements, more murders, and more suicides than any other generation that ever lived. It is time for all of us to take stock of our failures, blunders, and costly mistakes. It is about time that we put less confidence in ourselves and more trust and faith in God."
"People of the West have various forms of democracy based on a belief in God as well as on a general acceptance of moral law. However, in practice we are beginning to resemble the Marxists, who have little respect for moral law or religion."
"Hundreds of philosophies and scores of religions have been invented to circumvent the Word of God. Modern philosophers and psychologists are still trying to make it appear that there is some way out other than the path of Jesus."
"Astrology can never give you the answers to life's deepest questions-especially where you will spend eternity. Commit your life to Christ. It will give you joyous confidence that your future is securely in His hands-tomorrow and forever."
"Nothing seems to satisfy. Not politics, not education, not material goods. Some who refuse to turn their hearts toward God have created the New Age movement, with all of its aberrations. This is actually not new but only the latest attempt by man to place something other than Christ inside himself in a futile attempt to satisfy spiritual longings."
"While the West had lulled itself to sleep with the comforting doctrine of man's achievements, a great revolution had been in progress in Russia. The hammer pounded and the sickle gleaned until a new social order called Communism emerged as one of the most powerful ideologies of all time. It challenged every concept man had ever held. It threatened the life of the whole world. It became the greatest challenge Christianity had faced in 2,000 years. It was a fanatic religion that asked questions and demanded answers."
"Students today want to know about the devil, about witchcraft, about the occult. Many people do not know they are turning to Satan. They are being deluded."
"Religion can be anything! But true Christianity is God coming to man in a personal relationship."
"We see that humanism has become for many a polite name for a vocal, aggressive, influential crusade against religion in the name of social and moral advance. There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: “Ye shall be as gods” [Genesis 3:5 KJV]."
"Man suppresses the truth, mixes it with error, and develops the religions of the world."
"Some Christian leaders . . . are willing to give up some of the teachings of the Bible in order to harmonize Christianity with the other religions."
"Something distinguishes Christianity from all the religions of the world. Not only does it carry the truth of the redemption, by the death of our Savior for our sins on the cross, but it carries the fact that Christ rose again."
"There are many bibles of different religions; there is the Mohammedan Koran, the Buddhist Canon of Sacred Scripture, the Zoroastrian Zend-Avesta, and the Brahman Veda . . . they all begin with some flashes of true light, and end in utter darkness. Even the most casual observer soon discovers that the Bible is radically different. It is the only Book that offers redemption to us and points the way out of our dilemma."
"Those you know the least may need your prayers the most. Don't let the fact that you don't know someone keep you from praying for them."
"[Jesus] had only three years of public ministry, but He was never too hurried to spend hours in prayer . . . No day began or closed in which He was not in communion with His Father."
"We must repent of our prayerlessness. We must make prayer our priority. Even our churches today have gotten away from prayer meetings."
"You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time."
"Sometimes I'm asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer . . . prayer . . . prayer."
"Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language."
"True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency. Make it a habit, and when the need arises you will be in practice."
"Persecution, whether it is physical, social, or mental, is one of the worst types of pain, but those who persecute us are to be the objects of our prayers."
"[Jesus] prayed briefly when He was in a crowd; He prayed a little longer when He was with His disciples; and He prayed all night when He was alone. Today, many in the ministry tend to reverse that process."
"We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side."
"If we are to depend on prayer during tough times, we should be people of prayer before the crisis hits."
"Have you ever said, “Well, all we can do now is pray”? . . . When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God."
"I realize more than ever that this ministry has been a team effort. Without the help of our prayer partners, our financial supporters, our staff, and our board of directors-this ministry and all of our dreams to spread the Good News of God's love throughout the world would not have been possible."
"No matter where we are, God is as close as a prayer. He is our support and our strength. He will help us make our way up again from whatever depths we have fallen."
"When we know Him, we can be sure God hears our prayers."
"When troubles come may prayer be your automatic response."
"We were created to live a life of prayer."
"We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer."
"Someone has said, “Prayer is the highest use to which speech can be put."
"Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one ever bothered to ask!"
"Many times I have been driven to prayer. When I was in Bible school I didn't know what to do with my life. I used to walk the streets . . . and pray, sometimes for hours at a time. In His timing, God answered those prayers, and since then prayer has been an essential part of my life."
"I have never met anyone who spent time in daily prayer, and in the study of the Word of God, and was strong in faith, who was ever discouraged for very long."
"If there are any tears shed in heaven, they will be over the fact that we prayed so little."
"In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to usthe treasures of God's mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard."
"Proclaiming “the whole will of God” should be the goal-and the joy-of every church and every preacher."
"Preach with authority. The authority for us is the Word of God. Preach with simplicity . . . Preach with urgency . . . heaven and hell are at stake. Preach for a decision."
"Thousands of pastors, Sunday school teachers, and Christian workers are powerless because they do not make the Word the source of their preaching or teaching."
"Nowhere in Mark 16:15-“Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” [KJV] - nor in any similar Scripture did Christ command us to go only into the Western or capitalist world. Nowhere did He say to exclude the Communist world."
"I have had the privilege of preaching the Gospel on every continent in most of the countries of the world, and I have found that when I present the simple message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, with authority, quoting from the very Word of God-He takes that message and drives it supernaturally into the human heart."
"When I preach-no matter where it is in the world-I can always count on five areas of human need that afflict all peoples. Emptiness, loneliness, guilt, fear of death, deep-seated insecurity."
"God's strength is made perfect in weakness. The weaker I became, the more powerful became the preaching."
"Preachers are not salesmen, for they have nothing to sell. They are bearers of Good News."
"I'm not a great preacher, and I don't claim to be a great preacher . . . I'm an ordinary preacher, just communicating the Gospel in the best way I know how."
"We preach Christ crucified. The cross is the focal point in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. It was no afterthought or emergency measure with God. Christ was “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” [Revelation 3:8 KJV]."
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