Gene Edwards Quotes

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

  Gene Edwards

  Men, Broken, Doe

  Gene Edwards (2011). “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”, p.42, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret...
  One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed.
  In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart.

  Gene Edwards

  Art, Two, Secret

  "A Tale of Three Kings". Book by Gene Edwards, 1980.

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• Many pray for the power of God. More every year. Those prayers sound powerful, sincere, godly, and without ulterior motive. Hidden under such prayer and fervor, however, are ambition, a craving for fame, the desire to be considered a spiritual giant. The person who prays such a prayer may not even know it, but dark motives and desires are in his heartin your heart.

  Gene Edwards

  Spiritual, Prayer, Powerful

  Gene Edwards (2016). “The Gene Edwards Collection: A Tale of Three Kings / The Prisoner in the Third Cell / The Divine Romance”, p.40, NavPress

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• Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.

  Gene Edwards

  Men, Speak, Empty

  Gene Edwards (2011). “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”, p.69, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• There is a vast difference between the outward clothing of the Spirit's power and the inward filling of the Spirit's life. In the first, despite the power, the hidden man of the heart may remain unchanged. In the latter, that monster is dealt with.

  Gene Edwards

  Heart, Men, Differences

  Gene Edwards (2016). “The Gene Edwards Collection: A Tale of Three Kings / The Prisoner in the Third Cell / The Divine Romance”, p.40, NavPress

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• God has a university. It's a small school. Few enroll; even fewer graduate.

  Gene Edwards

  School, Graduates, University

  Gene Edwards (2011). “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”, p.15, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center of everything...not in lip service, but in the dynamic experiential whole.

  Gene Edwards

  Jesus, Church, Ministry

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• It is the Father's life, and the Father's life alone, that ever lives the Christian life. It is the Father's life, and Father's life alone, which will live the Christian life in you. Embrace a formula or a list in order to "live the Christian life," and you are doomed to frustration.

  Gene Edwards

  Christian, Father, Frustration

  Gene Edwards (1991). “The secret to the Christian life: have we overlooked the main point?”, Christian Books Pub House

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• Understand this: The Bible presents Christ. You have an inner sense of an indwelling Lord. You either have that or you do not. The man God needs will live in a vital, living relationship with Jesus Christ.

  Gene Edwards

  Jesus, Men, Needs

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• Legalism is nothing but a leader's way of avoiding suffering.

  Gene Edwards

  Leader, Suffering, Way

  Gene Edwards (1980). “A TALE OF THREE KINGS(세왕이야기)”, p.49, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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