"I'm not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute
message on 'how to cope' to a multitude of people who are dying
and going to hell. I tremble at the thought." - David Wilkerson
"Qualification for Serving the Lord’s Purposes - The Lord does
really need men and women to serve His ends.... His need may
be very great, and yet He may not be able now to open the way
for you to come in to serve Him. . . The Lord is waiting until your
heart is broken over this whole situation... It must be a matter of
heart-love for the Lord and for what is His, and not for the work,
the ministry; not for anything but for your Lord and what is His.
When you get there, and you are found upon your face before the
Lord breaking your heart because you see He is not getting what
He ought to have, when this becomes the travail of your soul, you
will find the Lord will begin to do something."
-T. Austin-Sparks.
"He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them
of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the
rich he hath sent empty away." ~Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Some Quotes from Thomas Brooks:
"One hardened and seared hypocrite is more advantage to carry
out Satan's design, than a thousand loose profane persons. A
hypocrite is Satan's firstborn; he is Satan's darling; he leans upon
the devil's breast, as John did upon Christ's." (-The Hypocrite Detected)
"In conquering of those enemies that be within, you make a
conquest over the devil and hell itself... And as this is the most
noble conquest, so it is the most necessary conquest. You must
be the death of your sins, or they will be the death of your souls.
Sin is a viper, that does always kill where it is not killed." (-The
Hypocrite Detected)
"Whatsoever we scatter to the poor, we gather for ourselves. Not
getting, but giving, is the way to wealth. The poor man's hand is
Christ's treasury, Christ's bank. Oh let not Christ's hand and
Christ's treasury be empty! and yet be careful that what you cast
into Christ's treasury be got in Christ's wages." (-The Hypocrite Detected)
"To read much and practice nothing, is to hunt much and catch
nothing." (-The Unsearchable Riches Of Christ)
"A proud heart counts great sins small, and small sins no sins,
and so disarms conscience for a time of its whipping and
wounding power; but at death, or in hell, conscience will take up
an iron rod, with which it will lash the sinner for ever; and then,
though too late, the sinner shall acknowledge his little sins to be
very great, and his great sins to be exceeding grievous and odious."
(-The Unsearchable Riches Of Christ)
"An humble soul will bless God, and be thankful to God, as well
under misery as under mercy; as well when God frowns as when
he smiles; as well when God takes as when he gives; as well
under crosses and losses as under blessings and mercies." (-The
Unsearchable Riches Of Christ)
"Eighty and six years have I served Him, and he never did me any
injury; how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?"
~Polycarp (Polycarp spoke these words to the authorities who
arrested him in Smyrna before he was taken to the arena and
burned alive around the year 155).