Quotes from Peter Forsyth

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.

We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.

The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men.

Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.

Prayer is the atmosphere of revelation, in the strict and central sense of that word. It is the climate in which God's manifestation bursts open into inspiration.

Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.

It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him.

It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.

To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood.

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.