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"The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn’t concerned to protect His own integrity. He’s a kind of wishy-washy deity, who just waves a wand of forgiveness over everybody. No. For God to forgive you is a very costly matter."
-R.C. Sproul

"The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures."
- A.W. Tozer

The best prayers have often more groans than words. - John Bunyan

Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience. - A.W. Tozer

I feel it is far better to begin with God - to see his face first, to get my soul near him before it is near another. - Robert McCheyne

Work as if everything depended upon your work, and pray as if everything depended upon your prayer. - William Booth

"In heavenly love abiding, no change our hearts shall fear; and safe is such confiding, for nothing changes here. The storm may roar without us, our hearts may low be laid; But God is round about us, we cannot be dismayed" -FW Faber

"All we need is need." - John Gertsner

"How hard is it sometimes to get leave of hearts to seek God!
Jesus Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the
throne of grace." - Thomas Watson

"Hell is larger today than it was yesterday, because many of us
have failed to pray." - David Smithers

"Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential
and yet more neglected than prayer. Most people consider the
exercise a fatiguing ceremony, which they are justified in abridging
as much as possible. Even those whose profession or fears lead
them to pray, pray with such languor and wanderings of mind that
their prayers, far from drawing down blessings, only increase their
condemnation." - Fenelon

You know, people say that today. “Oh, I am just a saved sinner.”

That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is like saying you are an honest thief, or a pure harlot. You can’t be a saved sinner. You are either saved or you are a sinner. He came. “Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins.” He saves us from sins that we have committed and from committing a thousand more that would meet us at the judgment.

-Leonard Ravenhill

You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness. We accommodate ourselves to iniquity not only in the world, but in the fellowships round about.

-Leonard Ravenhill

"Friend, you will never stumble as long as you are on your knees!"
-Raymond Beasley

"A baptism of holiness, a demonstration of godly living is the
crying need of our day." - Duncan Campbell

"A revival of religion presupposes a declension." - Charles G. Finney