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What We Need As Christians Is To Be Able To Feed Ourselves. How Many There Are Who Sit Helpless And Listless, With Open Mouths, Hungry For Spiritual Things, And The Minister Has To Try To Feed Them, While The Bible Is A Feast Prepared, Into Which They Never Venture.

-Dwight L. Moody

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What We Need As Christians Is To Be Able To Feed Ourselves. How Many There Are Who Sit Helpless And Listless, With Open Mouths, Hungry For Spiritual Things, And The Minister Has To Try To Feed Them, While The Bible Is A Feast Prepared, Into Which They Never Venture.

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Whatever You Love More Than God Is Your Idol.

A Man Who Prays Much In Private Will Make Short Prayers In Public.

It Is A Good Deal Better To Have Life In Christ And God Than Any Where Else. I Would Rather Have My Life Hid With Christ In God Than Be In Eden As Adam Was. Adam Might Have Remained In Paradise For 16,000 Years, And Then Fallen, But If Ours Is Hid In Christ, How Safe!

I Believe The Religion Of Christ Covers The Whole Man. Why Shouldn't A Man Play Baseball Or Lawn-tennis? ... Don't Imagine That You Have Got To Go Into A Cave To Be Consecrated, And Stay There All Your Life. Whatever You Take Up, Take It Up With All Your Heart.

I Know I Have A First-rate Mind, But That`s No Source Of Pride To Me. Intelligent People Are A Dime A Dozen. But I Am Proud Of Having Character.

A Worker Must Win The Hearts And Affections Of The People Before He Can Do Any Effective Work.

Light For Every Darkness, Life In Death, The Promise Of Our Lord's Return, And The Assurance Of Everlasting Glory.

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I Like My Way Of Doing Things Better Than Your Way Of Not Doing Them.

It Is Our Privilege To Know That We Are Saved.

Everybody Wants To Enjoy Heaven After They Die, But They Don't Want To Be Heavenly-minded While They Live.

I Believe Many A Man Is Praying To God To Fill Him, When He Is Full Already With Something Else. Before We Pray That God Would Fill Us, I Believe We Ought To Pray Him To Empty Us.

Every One Of Our Children Will Be Brought Into The Ark, If We Pray And Work Earnestly For Them.

When I First Became A Christian I Thought I Would Be Glad When I Got Farther On, And Got Established. I Thought I Would Be So Strong And There Would Not Be Any Danger; But The Longer I Live, The More Danger I See There Is. The Only Hope Of Any Christian...is To Keep Hold Of Christ.

You Cannot Find, I Believe, A Case In The Bible Where A Man Is Converted Without God's Calling In Some Human Agency--using Some Human Instrument.

It Is A Wonderful Fact That Men And Women Saved By The Blood Of Jesus Rarely Remain Subjects Of Charity, But Rise At Once To Comfort And Respectability... I Never Saw A Man Who Put Christ First In His Life That Wasn't Successful.

Those Who Say They Will Forgive But Can't Forget, Simply Bury The Hatchet But Leave The Handle Out For Immediate Use.

The Trouble With A Great Many Men Is That They Spread Themselves Out Over Too Much Ground. They Fail In Everything. If They Would Only Put Their Life Into One Channel, And Keep It In, They Would Accomplish Something. They Make No Impression Because They Do A Little Work Here And A Little Work There....lay Yourselves On The Altar Of God, And Then Concentrate On Some One Work.

A Good Many Preachers Say I Am Lowering The Pulpit. I Am Glad I Am. I Am Trying To Get It Down To The Level Of Men's Hearts. If I Wanted To Hit Chicago I Would Not Put The Cannon On The Top Of This Building And Fire Into The Air. Too Many Preachers Fire Into The Air.

Christ Came Down To Save Us From A Terrible Hell, And Any Man Who Is Cast Down To Hell From Here Must Go In The Full Blaze Of The Gospel, And Over The Mangled Body Of The Son Of God.

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He Who Kneels The Most, Stands The Best.

If I Could Relive My Life, I Would Devote My Entire Ministry To Reaching Children For God!

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If You Don't Enter The Kingdom Of Heaven By God's Way, You Cannot Enter At All.

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What Makes The Dead Sea Dead? Because It Is All The Time Receiving, Never Giving Out Anything. Why Is It That Many Christians Are Cold? Because They Are All The Time Receiving, Never Giving Out Anything.

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How Many People Would Like To Get Up In A Social Prayer-meeting To Say A Few Words For Christ, But There Is Such A Cold Spirit Of Criticism In The Church That They Dare Not Do It.

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I Thought When I Became A Christian I Had Nothing To Do But Just To Lay My Oars In The Bottom Of The Boat And Float Along. But I Soon Found That I Would Have To Go Against The Current.

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Use Me Then, My Saviour For Whatever Purpose And Whatever Way Thou Mayest Require. Here Is My Poor Heart, And Empty Vessel; Fill It With Thy Grace.

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Either These - Unsaved People Are To Be Evangelized, Or The Leaven Of Communism And Infidelity Will Assume Such Enormous Proportions That It Will Break You In A Reign Of Terror Such As This Country Has Never Known.

What We Want Is To Be Real. Let Us Not Appear To Be More Than We Are. Don't Let Us Put On Any Cant, Any Assumed Humility, But Let Us Be Real; That Is The Delight Of God. God Wants Us To Be Real Men And Women, And If We Profess To Be What We Are Not, God Knows All About Us. God Hates Sham.

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A Good Example Is Far Better Than A Good Precept.

I Find That Many Christians Are In Trouble About The Future; They Think They Will Not Have Grace Enough To Die By. It Is Much More Important That We Should Have Grace Enough To Live By. It Seems To Me That Death Is Of Very Little Importance In The Meantime. When The Dying Hour Comes, There Will Be Dying Grace; But You Do Not Require Dying Grace To Live By.

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A Christian In The World Is One Thing, And The World In A Christian Is Quite Another Thing. A Ship In The Water Is All Right, But When The Water Gets In The Ship, It Is Quite A Different Thing.

When A Man Has No Strength, If He Leans On God, He Becomes Powerful.

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I Have Never Met A Man Who Has Given Me As Much Trouble As Myself.

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You Can Always Tell When A Man Is A Great Ways From God--he Is Always Talking About Himself, How Good He Is. But The Moment He Sees God By The Eye Of Faith, He Is Down On His Knees, And, Like Job, He Cries, "behold I Am Vile.

I Thank God That The Gospel Is To Be Preached To Every Creature. There Is No Man So Far Gone, But The Grace Of God Can Reach Him; No Man So Desperate Or Black, But He Can Forgive Him.

There Are Many Of Us That Are Willing To Do Great Things For The Lord, But Few Of Us Are Willing To Do Little Things.

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As I Go Into A Cemetery I Like To Think Of The Time When The Dead Shall Rise From Their Graves. ... Thank God, Our Friends Are Not Buried; They Are Only Sown!

Lying Covers A Multitude Of Sins - Temporarily.

The First Thing A Man Must Do If He Desires To Be Used In The Lord's Work, Is To Make An Unconditional Surrender Of Himself To God.

Faith Makes All Things Possible... Love Makes All Things Easy.

I Hunted All Through The Four Gospels Trying To Find One Of Christ's Funeral Sermons, But I Couldn't Find Any. I Found He Broke Up Every Funeral He Ever Attended! Death Couldn't Exist Where He Was.

Out Of 100 Men, One Will Read The Bible, The Other 99 Will Read The Christian.

We Ought To See The Face Of God Every Morning Before We See The Face Of Man.

The Preaching That This World Needs Most Is The Sermons In Shoes That Are Walking With Jesus Christ.

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Some Men’s Prayers Need To Be Cut Short At Both Ends And Set On Fire In The Middle.

When God Gave Christ To This World, He Gave The Best He Had, And He Wants Us To Do The Same.

We Are Told To Let Our Light Shine, And If It Does, We Won't Need To Tell Anybody It Does. Lighthouses Don't Fire Cannons To Call Attention To Their Shining- They Just Shine.

There Is No True Prayer Without Confession. As Long As We Have Unconfessed Sin In Our Soul, We Are Not Going To Have Power With God In Prayer. He Says If We Regard Iniquity In Our Hearts, He Will Not Hear Us, Much Less Answer. As Long As We Are Living In Any Known Sin, We Have No Power In Prayer. God Is Not Going To Hear It.

The Lord Gives His People Perpetual Joy When They Walk In Obedience To Him.

The Impression That A Praying Mother Leaves Upon Her Children Is Life-long. Perhaps When You Are Dead And Gone Your Prayer Will Be Answered.

There Is No Better Evangelist In The World Than The Holy Spirit.

We May Sing Our Hymns And Psalms, And Offer Prayers, But They Will Be An Abomination To God, Unless We Are Willing To Be Thoroughly Straightforward In Our Daily Life.

Whitewashing The Pump Won't Make The Water Pure.

Be Humble, Or You'll Stumble.

This Lost World Will Never Be Reached And Brought Back To Loyalty To God, Until The Children Of God Wake Up To The Fact That They Have A Mission In The World. If We Are True Christians We Should All Be Missionaries.

God Has Cast Our Confessed Sins Into The Depths Of The Sea, And He's Even Put A 'no Fishing' Sign Over The Spot.

The Voice Of Sin Is Loud, But The Voice Of Forgiveness Is Louder.

Would You Be Free From The Condemnation Of The Sins That Are Past, From The Power Of The Temptations That Are To Come? Then Take Your Stand On The Rock Of Ages. Let Death, Let The Grave, Let The Judgment Come, The Victory Is Christ's And Yours Through Him.

Faith Gives Us Living Joy And Dying Rest.

No Man Can Resolve Himself Into Heaven.

If God Did Not Want Us To Understand The Book Of Revelation, He Would Not Have Given It To Us At All.

If A Man Gets Drunk And Goes Out And Breaks His Leg So That It Must Be Amputated, God Will Forgive Him If He Asks It, But He Will Have To Hop Around On One Leg All His Life.

The Gospel Of John Opens With Jesus Christ In The Bosom Of God, And Closes With The Sinner In The Bosom Of Jesus Christ.

God Doesn't Seek For Golden Vessels, And Does Not Ask For Silver Ones, But He Must Have Clean Ones.

It May Be That At This Moment Every Battlement Of Heaven Is Alive With The Redeemed. There Is A Sainted Mother Watching For Her Daughter. Have You No Response To That Long Hushed Voice Which Has Prayed For You So Often? And For You, Young Man, Are There No Voices There That Have Prayed For You? And Are There None Whom You Promised Once To Meet Again, If Not On Earth, In Heaven?

You Might As Well Try To Hear Without Ears Or Breathe Without Lungs, As To Try To Live A Christian Life Without The Spirit Of God In Your Heart.

When I Was A Young Man I Heard Henry Barley Say That The World Has Yet To See What God Can Do For A Man Fully Yielded To Him, And I Said I Wanted To Be That Man. But I Can Say Today The World Has Yet To See What God Can Do With A Man Fully Yielded To Him.

Jesus Came From Heaven Down To Earth. He Left All Grandeur Behind Him, He Passed By Palaces And Thrones-to Be Born In A Manger! He Was Born Lowly, That He Might Raise Men Up To God. The Poor Have A Friend In Jesus. If No One Else Loves Them, He Loves Them. He Came To Give Them Liberty, To Proclaim To Them The Gospel Of God's Grace.

The Bible Without The Holy Spirit Is A Sundial By Moonlight.

Christian Inspirational

Next To The Wonder Of Seeing My Savior Will Be, I Think, The Wonder That I Made So Little Use Of The Power Of Prayer.

Every Time You Walk A Mile To Church And Carry A Bible With You, You Preach A Sermon A Mile Long.

It Is Clear You Don't Like My Way Of Doing Evangelism. You Raise Some Good Points. Frankly, I Sometimes Do Not Like My Way Of Doing Evangelism. But I Like My Way Of Doing It Better Than Your Way Of Not Doing It.

I Never Knew Up To That Time That God Loved Us So Much. This Heart Of Mine Began To Thaw Out; I Could Not Keep Back The Tears. I Just Drank It In...i Tell You There Is One Thing That Draws Above Everything Else In The World And That Is Love.

The Measure Of A Man Is Not How Many Servants He Has But How Many Men He Serves .

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If This World Is Going To Be Reached, I Am Convinced That It Must Be Done By Men And Women Of Average Talent.

I Now Opened My Bible And Began To Study, And Faith Has Been Growing Ever Since.

I Tell You There Is One Thing That Draws Above Everything Else In This World, And That Is Love.

Dr. Bonar Once Said That He Could Tell When A Christian Was Growing. In Proportion To His Growth In Grace He Would Elevate His Master, Talk Less Of What He Himself Was Doing, And Become Smaller And Smaller In His Own Esteem, Until, Like The Morning Star, He Faded Away Before The Rising Sun.

I Have Noticed This, That When A Man Is Full Of The Holy Ghost He Is The Very Last Man To Be Complaining Of Other People.

A Great Many People Are Trying To Make Peace, But That Has Already Been Done. God Has Not Left It For Us To Do; All We Have To Do Is To Enter Into It.

If The Savior Could Die For The World, Can't We Work For It?

Give Your Life To God; He Can Do More With It Than You Can!

The Bible Was Not Given For Our Information But For Our Transformation.

Ministry Need Not Be An Office; It's A Lifestyle Devoted To Attracting The Lost To Christ And Encouraging Other Believers In The Faith.

There Cannot Be Any Peace Where There Is Uncertainty.

Let Us Expect That God Is Going To Use Us. Let Us Have Courage And Go Forward, Looking To God To Do Great Things.

Grace Means Undeserved Kindness. It Is The Gift Of God To Man The Moment He Sees He Is Unworthy Of God's Favor.

I Went To Preaching Again. The Sermons Were Not Different; I Did Not Present Any New Truths, And Yet Hundreds Were Converted. I Would Not Now Be Placed Back Where I Was Before That Blessed Experience If You Should Give Me All The World - It Would Be As Dust In The Balance.

At A Certain Meeting Two And A Half People Were Converted To Christ. A Friend Asked If He Meant, Two Adults And A Child. The Facts Were Just The Opposite Two Children And An Adult. When A Child Is Led To Christ, A Whole Life Is Saved!

Fervency In Prayer By The Power Of The Holy Spirit Is A Good Preservative Against Thoughts Rushing In. Flies Never Settle On The Boiling Pot.

Satan Is Willing To Have Us Worship Anything, However Sacred - The Bible, The Crucifix, The Church - If Only We Do Not Worship God Himself.

The Moral Man Is As Guilty As The Rest. His Morality Cannot Save Him.

God Has Nothing To Say To The Self-righteous.

Preparation For Old Age Should Begin Not Later Than One's Teens. A Life Which Is Empty Of Purpose Until 65 Will Not Suddenly Become Filled On Retirement.

Christians Should Live In The World, But Not Be Filled With It. A Ship Lives In The Water; But If The Water Gets Into The Ship, She Goes To The Bottom. So Christians May Live In The World; But If The World Gets Into Them, They Sink.

A Rule I Have Had For Years Is: To Treat The Lord Jesus Christ As A Personal Friend. His Is Not A Creed, A Mere Doctrine, But It Is He Himself We Have.

I Would Rather A Thousand Times Be Five Minutes At The Feet Of Christ Than Listen A Lifetime To All The Wise Men In The World.

God Has Called Us To Shine, Just As Much As Daniel Was Sent Into Babylon To Shine. Let No One Say That He Cannot Shine Because He Has Not So Much Influence As Some Others May Have. What God Wants You To Do Is To Use The Influence You Have. Daniel Probably Did Not Have Much Influence Down In Babylon At First, But God Soon Gave Him More Because He Was Faithful And Used What He Had.

No One Can Sum Up All God Is Able To Accomplish Through One Solitary Life, Wholly Yielded, Adjusted, And Obedient To Him.

The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death Holds No Darkness For The Child Of God. There Must Be Light, Else There Could Be No Shadow. Jesus Is The Light. He Has Overcome Death.

Shadow Of Death

The Best Way To Revive A Church Is To Build A Fire In The Pulpit.

Grace Isn't A Little Prayer You Chant Before Receiving A Meal. It's A Way To Live. The Law Tells Me How Crooked I Am. Grace Comes Along And Straightens Me Out.

Right Now I'm Having So Much Trouble With D.l. Moody That I Don't Have Time To Find Fault With The Other Fellow.

Earth Recedes....heav En Opens Before Me.

Some Say If Only My Fears And Doubts Will Leave Then I Will Get To Work. But Instead You Should Get To Work And Then Your Fears And Doubts Will Leave.

The Dying Boy Said: " Father, Don't You Weep For Me; When I Get To Heaven I Will Go Straight To Jesus And Tell Him That Ever Since I Can Remember You Have Tried To Lead Me To Him." I Would Rather Have My Children Say That Of Me After I Am Gone; Or If They Die Before Me, I Would Rather They Should Take That Message To The Master Than To Have A Monument Over Me Reaching To The Skies.

The Tendency Of The World Is Down - God's Path Is Up.

The World Knows Little Of The Works Wrought By Prayer.

If God Is Your Partner, Make Your Plans Big!

Christian Inspirational

I Never Saw A Fruit-bearing Christian Who Was Not A Student Of The Bible.

We Have Got Nowadays So That We Divide Lies Into White Lies And Black Lies, Society Lies And Business Lies, Etc. The Word Of God Knows No Such Letting-down Of The Standard.

We May Easily Be Too Big For God To Use, But Never Too Small.

I Never Yet Have Known The Spirit Of God To Work Where The Lord's People Were Divided.

Temptations Are Like Tramps. Treat Them Kindly, And They Will Return Bringing Others With Them. Temptations Are Never So Dangerous As When They Come To Us In A Religious Garb.

I Am Walking Toward A Bright Light And The Nearer I Get The Brighter It Is.

When A Man Gets Up So High (spiritual Mountaintop) That He Cannot Reach Down And Save Poor Sinners, There Is Something Wrong.

Man Is Born With His Face Turned Away From God. When He Truly Repents, He Is Turned Right Round Toward God; He Leaves His Old Life.

By The Grace Of God, I'll Be That Man.

Unless The Spirit Of God Is With Us, We Cannot Expect That Our Prayers Will Be Answered.

Small Numbers Make No Difference To God. There Is Nothing Small If God Is In It.

Before We Pray That God Would Fill Us, I Believe We Ought To Pray Him To Empty Us.

God Stands In No Need Of Our Strength Or Wisdom, But Of Our Ignorance, Of Our Weakness; Let Us But Give These To Him, And He Can Make Use Of Us In Winning Souls.

If We Have Got The True Love Of God Shed Abroad In Our Hearts, We Will Show It In Our Lives. We Will Not Have To Go Up And Down The Earth Proclaiming It. We Will Show It In Everything We Say Or Do.

No Matter How Low Down You Are; No Matter What Your Disposition Has Been; You May Be Low In Your Thoughts, Words, And Actions; You May Be Selfish; Your Heart May Be Overflowing With Corruption And Wickedness; Yet Jesus Will Have Compassion Upon You. He Will Speak Comforting Words To You; Not Treat You Coldly Or Spurn You, As Perhaps Those Of Earth Would, But Will Speak Tender Words, And Words Of Love And Affection And Kindness. Just Come At Once. He Is A Faithful Friend - A Friend That Sticketh Closer Than A Brother.

We Talk About Heaven Being So Far Away. It Is Within Speaking Distance To Those Who Belong There. Heaven Is A Prepared Place For A Prepared People.

If You Pray For Bread And Bring No Basket To Carry It, You Prove The Doubting Spirit, Which May Be The Only Hindrance To The Boon You Ask.

Joy Is Love Exalted; Peace Is Love In Response; Long-suffering Is Love Enduring; Gentleness Is Love In Society; Goodness Is Love In Action; Faith Is Love On The Battlefield; Meekness Is Love In Tough Situations; And Temperance Is Love In Training.

My Heart Goes Out To You, And I Long To See You All Coming Constantly To God For A Fresh Supply Of Love.

God Never Made A Promise That Was Too Good To Be True.

Too Good To Be True

God Doesn't Expect The Impossible From Us. He Wants Us To Expect The Impossible From Him!

It Is A Favorite Thing With Infidels To Set Their Own Standard, To Measure Themsleves By Other People. But That Will Not Do In The Day Of Judgment. Now We Will Use God's Law As A Balance Weight.

Every Great Movement Of God Can Be Traced To A Kneeling Figure.

God Had One Son Without Sin, But He Never Had A Son Without Trial.

Moses Spent Forty Years In The King's Palace Thinking That He Was Somebody; Then He Lived Forty Years In The Wilderness Finding Out That Without God He Was A Nobody; Finally He Spent Forty More Years Discovering How A Nobody With God Can Be A Somebody.

I'm Not Tired Of The Work... I'm Tired In The Work.

'faith Cometh By Hearing And Hearing By The Word Of God' (rom. 10:17). That Is Whence Faith Comes. It Is Not For Me To Sit Down And Wait For Faith To Come Stealing Over Me With A Strong Sensation, But Is For Me To Take God At His Word.

A Missions Conference Is A Business Meeting To Decide The Fate Of The Heathen.

A Great Many People Wonder Why It Was That Christ Did Not Come At Once To Martha And Mary, Whom He Loved, Whenever He Heard Of Their Affliction. It Was To Try Them, And It Is The Same With His Dealings Toward Us. If He Seems Not To Come To Us In Our Affliction, It Is Only To Test Us.

Someday You Will Read In The Papers That Moody Is Dead. Don't You Believe A Word Of It. At That Moment I Shall Be More Alive Than I Am Now. I Was Born Of The Flesh In 1837, I Was Born Of The Spirit In 1855. That Which Is Born Of The Flesh May Die. That Which Is Born Of The Spirit Shall Live Forever.

If We Do Not Love One Another, We Certainly Shall Not Have Much Power With God In Prayer.

I Firmly Believe A Great Many Prayers Are Not Answered Because We Are Not Willing To Forgive Someone.

No One Should Ever Preach On The Topic Of Hell Without A Tear In His Eye.

God Had No Children Too Weak, But A Great Many Too Strong To Make Use Of.

As A Dead Man Cannot Inherit An Estate, No More Can A Dead Soul Inherit Heaven. The Soul Must Be Resurrected In Christ.

Attitudes Determine Our Actions, For Good Or Bad.

David Was The Last One We Would Have Chosen To Fight The Giant, But He Was Chosen Of God.

The Last Business Of Christ's Life Was The Saving Of A Poor Penitent Thief.

I Am Glad There Are Things In The Bible I Do Not Understand. If I Could Take That Book Up And Read It As I Would Any Other Book, I Might Think I Could Write A Book Like That.

Earth Recedes, Heaven Opens Before Me. If This Is Death, It Is Sweet! There Is No Valley Here. God Is Calling Me, And I Must Go.

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