You won't become a saint by studying your Bible; you'll become a saint by living it.
The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.
All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.
It is much easier to wear a cross than to bear a cross.
You must be much WITH God before you can be much FOR God.
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.)
If Jesus came back today, he wouldn’t cleanse the temple, he’d cleanse the pulpit.
If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say 'Yes, I am saved'. When? 'Oh so and so preached, I got baptized and...' Are you saved? What are you saved from, hell? Are you saved from bitterness? Are you saved from lust? Are you saved from cheating? Are you saved from lying? Are you saved from bad manners? Are you saved from rebellion against your parents? Come on, what are you saved from?
The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!
The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.
The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.
Christ has not conquered my affections if He has to compete for my attention.
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.
Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.
A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
You know, we're the most undisciplined generation the world has ever knownhow many of you are disciplined? How many go to bed at the same time every night, get up every morning at the same time? How do you discipline your appetites, how do you discipline your tongue? We're the most weak, effeminate Christianity the world has ever had-no wonder nobody wants it. It has no strength, it has no character
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?
When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.
Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?
Tell me what time you spend alone with God... and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.
Christ cared enough for sinners to die for them. Do we care enough for sinners to live to reach them?
There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.
We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.
Christianity is Christ plus nothing!
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