The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.
If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and it becomes narrower and narrower and narrower.
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
You won't become a saint by studying your Bible; you'll become a saint by living it.
A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.
Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.
I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?
Nobody stood by Jesus. Maybe nobody will stand by you. It's a lonely life, but it's a glorious life.
Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.
If Jesus came back today, he wouldn’t cleanse the temple, he’d cleanse the pulpit.
Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.
Christ has not conquered my affections if He has to compete for my attention.
There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life.
The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.
I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.
You know, people say that today. "I am a saved sinner." That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is like saying you are an honest thief, or a pure harlot. you can't be a saved sinner. You are either saved or you are a sinner. He came. "Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins."
Someone asked me, 'Do you pray for the dead?' I said, 'No, I preach to them! I think every pew in every church is death row. Think about that! They're dead! They sing about God; they talk about God, but they're dead! They have no living relationship (with God).
The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.
If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.
We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)
Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man's God comes and lives inside of Him!
Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.
The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.
What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?
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