Quotes from John G. Lake

Jesus did not heal the sick in order to coax them to be Christians. He healed because it was His nature to heal.

The secret of Christianity is in being. It is in being a possessor of the nature of Jesus Christ.

The power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion. It makes one a god.

It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God.

The ministry of Christianity is the ministry of the Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that inhabits the words, that speaks to the spirit of another and reveals Christ in and through him.

Salvation is not just something God gives you that is going to bless you after you die, it is having the presence of the lord now.

There is only one reality. That reality is God. The soul of man must contact God, and unless the spirit of man is truly joined to God, there is no such thing as real Christian manifestation.

The Spirit of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

The glory of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

Beloved, it is not our long prayers but our believing God that gets the answer.

There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.

Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls.

Healing is not always obtained by saying a prayer. It is obtained by obeying God

I feel that very frequently prayer is made a refuge to dodge the action of faith.

It is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner, I say in my heart, "God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is."

A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.

Science is the discovery of how God does things.

If you are having the right kind of spiritual fellowship, you will have power with God, and there is no escaping it!

When I saw for the first time by the Word of God that sickness was not the Will of God, everything in my nature rose up to defeat the will of the devil.

GOD ALWAYS WAS THE HEALER. He is the healer still, and will ever remain the Healer. Healing is for YOU. Jesus healed, "all that came to Him." He never turned any one away. He never said, "It is not God's will to heal you," or that it was better for the individual to remain sick, or that they were being perfected in character through the sickness. He healed them ALL. Thereby demonstrating FOREVER God's unchangeable will concerning sickness.

The purpose of Jesus is not only to save men from their sins, but by the grace of God to begin in the souls of men that marvelous development in the nature and mind and understanding of God our Father, until by the grace of God we are able to take our place and our part in the kingdom of Jesus Christ and bear our share of responsibility.

Do not imprison Christ in you. Let Him live, let Him manifest Himself, let Him find vent through you.

If the church ever succeeds in doing that which God purposes we should do, it can only be when we enter into that divine compassion of the Son of God.

The life of the Christian without the indwelling power of the Spirit in the heart is a weariness to the flesh. It is an obedience to commandments and an endeavor to walk according to a pattern which you have not power to follow.