Some Quotable Quotes:
"There is a vast difference between
knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word."
--Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries
"I am trying to prevent anyone from
saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to
accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.'
That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the
sort of things Jesus said would not be a moral teacher. He would either be a
lunatic--on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else He would
be a Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the
Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a
fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet
and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense
about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did
not intend to."
--C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
"Let the cross humble you to
death."
--Andrew Murray, The Prayer Life
"Little of the Word with little prayer
is death to the spiritual life."
--Andrew Murray, The Prayer Life
"Millions call themselves by His name,
it is true, and pay some token respect to Him, but a simple test will show how
little He is really honored among them. Let the average man be put ot the proof
on the question of who or what is above, and his true position will be exposed.
Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, God and men,
between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God
will take second place every time. Those other things will be exalted above.
However the man may protest, the proof is in the choices he makes day after day
throughout his life."
--A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
"God breathed on clay and it became a
man; He breathes on men and they become clay."
--A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
"Not to be consumingly interested about
the things of heaven, is not to be interested in them at all."
--E.M. Bounds, The Necessity of Prayer
" . . . but to declare that, after one
is renewed by the Holy Spirit, has received a new nature, and become a child of
the king, he cannot obey God, is to assume a ridiculous attitude, and to
display, moreover, a lamentable ignorance of the work and implications of the
atonement."
--E.M. Bounds, The Necessity of Prayer
"When Christ calls a man, he bids him to
come and die."
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of
Discipleship