Quotes from G. Campbell Morgan

Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.

The purpose of God and the power of God is available for every man.

What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.

The supreme need in every hour of difficulty and distress is for a fresh vision of God. Seeing Him, all else takes on proper perspective and proportion.

The world hates Christian people if they can see God in them.

The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory.

The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward

Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph.

The year is made up of minutes. Let these be watched as having been dedicated to God. It is in the sanctification of the small that hallowing of the large is secure.

The whole life story of Jesus, on the human side, is the life story of One who lived by faith.

If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.

The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence of his infinite love.

The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.

The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.

The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.

Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.

Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.

Gather up these four results. Christians are not orphans, and therefore not desolate. Peace is theirs—peace which Christ gives, as the world cannot give, through the ministry of a Person ever present. In the strength of that peace they become His witnesses, because they have a perpetual vision of the Lord.

The highest function of humanity is belief, that activity of spirit that proceeds upon the pathway of reason, until it comes to some great promontory, and then spreads its wings, and upon the basis of its earlier journeying, takes eternity into its grasp.

Men hold two views of what happiness consists in, viz, having, and doing. To possess much, or to do some great thing, constitutes the sum of human blessedness according to popular theory.

Is there any phrase more startling than " the wrath of the Lamb'''' I think that if we had desired to describe wrath figuratively we should have written, the wrath of the " lion," but therein we should have failed. It is the wrath of the Lamb which is terrible, the wrath of One whose very heart and nature are love and gentleness. Wrath kindled by love is the fiercest flame that burns. p78

So that the one work of the Spirit of God is to teach things concerning Christ, and to bring to remembrance and understanding the words which fell from His lips.