Quotes from Gene Edwards

You yourself must endure the painful process of change. There is much more at work here than your instant maturity. God wants to build a relationship with you that is based on faith and trust and not on glamorous miracles.

All sin was now accumulated in one place—in him. Divinity

With that, Adam was placed into a deep sleep, his side wounded, and from that open wound was brought forth a soft-glowing bone.

Then do you find it strange that this remarkable event led the young man not to the throne but to a decade of hellish agony and suffering? On that day, David was enrolled, not into the lineage of royalty but into the school of brokenness.

No young believer should ever rise quickly in the ministry.

I was not looking for an experience; I was seeking a walk.

I dug out the pre-Reformation and Reformation classics written on the subject of Christian spirituality. Virtually every one of those books addressed one subject: prayer.

See God's hand in the circumstances of your life. Do you want to experience true happiness? Submit yourself peacefully and simply to the will of God, and bear your sufferings without struggle.

Follow Him simply wherever He may lead you and you will not have to think up big plans to bring about your perfection. Your new life will begin to grow naturally.

In all the world there was only one thing I knew about a spiritual pursuit. It was this: become quiet. Still your mind before the Lord. Do that before you do anything else.

God did not have—but wanted very much to have—men and women who would live in pain. God wanted a broken vessel.

Los rebeldes que llegan al poder mediante la rebelión son intolerantes con los demás rebeldes y sus rebeliones. Cuando Absalón se enfrente con la rebelión, se convertirá en un tirano. Su perversidad será diez veces la que ahora le atribuye a tu rey. El aplastará la rebelión y gobernará con mano de hierro... y mediante el terror. Eliminará toda oposición. Esta es siempre la última etapa de las rebeliones altisonantes.

What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?