Category: Quotes

I would rather deal with a man with wrong doctrine and the right spirit than a man with right doctrine and the wrong spirit. If a man has a right spirit we can get his doctrine right. John said, “Try the spirits … “

When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy.

The best investment in the future is a proper influence today.

A lot of preaching in our generation at large is good stuff. The greater question: is it God-stuff? There is a big difference between good stuff and God stuff!

Excuses are the cradle…that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

If you want to build a ship, don’t summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs and organize the work, rather teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

The softminded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea… The softminded man always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last… Continue reading Quoted: Thomas H. Huxley on Education’s Value

I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or… Continue reading Quoted: A. W. Tozer on Longing for God