Quotes About Spirituality

There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.

LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!

Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?

If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.

The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.

there is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.

The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees.

Today God is bypassing men—not because they are too ignorant, but because they are too self-sufficient. Brethren, our abilities are our handicaps, and our talents our stumbling blocks!

John the Baptist's training was in God's University of Silence. God takes all His great men there.

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology.

Prayer does not condition God; prayer conditions us. Prayer does not win God to our view; it reveals God's view to us.

Jesus said, ''Go ye!'' but He also said, ''Tarry until!'' Let any man shut himself up for a week with only bread and water, with no books except the Bible, with no visitor except the Holy Ghost, and I guarantee, my preacher brethren, that that man will either break up or break through and out. After that, like Paul, he will be known in hell!

And before we can be clean and ready for Him to control, self-seeking, self-glory, self-interest, self-pity, self-righteousness, self-importance, self-promotion, self-satisfaction—and whatsoever else there be of self—must die.

No man is greater than his prayer life. The

For this sin-hungry age we need a prayer-hungry Church.

Prayer makes the soul tender.

The ugly fact is that altar fires are either out or burning very low. The prayer meeting is dead or dying. By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh. What church ever asks its candidating ministers what time they spend in prayer? Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees.

There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience. —CHARLES G. FINNEY

was exceptional in suffering, which was often by the choice of others, but exceptional in prayer, too, which was by his own choice. If more were strong in prayer, more would be suited to suffer. Prayer develops bone as well as groan, sinew as well as saintliness, fortitude as well as fire.

An experience of God that cost nothing, does nothing, and is worth nothing.

He who would teach the people to pray must first himself be given to prayer.

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shopwindow to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.