Great Quotes 2

God is not looking for brilliant men, is not depending upon eloquent men, is not shut up to the use of talented men in sending His gospel out in the world. God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God.H.A. Ironside

There's such a wealth of quotes in this site, I'm so glad I found it:http://watchword.org/fire_from_the_altar_of_prayer.htm Be bountifully blessed!

"When Christ as a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its corner-stone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob, a coward--in a word, a man. And upon this rock He has built His Church, and the gates of Hell have not prevailed against it. All the empires and the kingdoms have failed, because of this inherent and continual weakness, that they were founded by strong men and upon strong men. But this one thing, the historic Christian Church, was founded on a weak man, and for that reason it is indestructible."~G.K. Chesterton~

Love that Chesterton quote!"Being broken is both God's work and ours. He brings His pressure to bear, but we have to make the choice...All day long the choice will be before us in a thousand ways." -Roy Hession

When Christ as a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its corner-stone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob, a coward--in a word, a man.Beware brethren. Chesterton was a catholic and held the heresy that Peter was the church's foundation. He has NOT built His church upon 'a man' of any kind.

Beware brethren. Chesterton was a catholic and held the heresy that Peter was the church's foundation. He has NOT built His church upon 'a man' of any kind.True, but I liked the ambiguousness of the quote, that it is built using weak men.

True, but I liked the ambiguousness of the quote, that it is built using weak men.I have no problems with 'built with', my issue is with 'built on'.

Lord, High and Holy, meek and lowly,Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision, where I live in the depths but see thee in the heights;hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold thy glory.Let me learn by paradox that the way down is the way up, that to be low is to be high, that the broken heart is the healed heart, that the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit, that the repenting soul is the victorious soul, that to have nothing is to possess all, that to bear the cross is to wear the crown, that to give is to receive, that the valley is the place of vision.Lord, in the daytime stars can be seen from deepest wells, and the deeper the wells the brighter thy stars shine;Let me find thy light in my darkness, thy life in my death, they joy in my sorrow, thy grace in my sin, thy riches in my poverty, thy glory in my valley.-The Valley of Vision (a collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions)Greg, you said LONG or short. :)

I have no problems with 'built with', my issue is with 'built on'.Yeah, I should have put a disclaimer with it. I didn't want to misquote him, and although he was talking about the man, Peter, from my Protestant frame of mind I didn't immediately interpret it that way.The quote was taken from his book, Heretics, from the chapter devoted to George Bernard Shaw.

When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.~A. W. Tozer~

"We must frankly face the fact that there is in this teaching a revolutionary element which could be dangerously subversive of our existing ways of thought. Let us admit that it is part of the fallen human nature of ecclesiastics, no less than of others in responsible positions, to desire always criteria of judgement which can be used without making too heavy demands upon the delicate faculty of spiritual discernment, clear-cut rules by which we may hope to be saved from making mistakes -- or rather, from being obviously and personally responsible for the mistakes. We are uncomfortable without definite principles by which we may guide our steps. We fear uncharted country, and the fanatics of all kinds who, upon the alleged authority of the Holy Spirit, summon us with strident cries in all directions simultaneously. Only those who have never borne the heavy burden of pastoral responsibility will mock at the cautious spirit of the ecclesiastic." ... Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998), The Household of God [1953] http://www.cqod.com/

I am convinced that many evangelicals are not truly and soundly converted. Among the evangelicals it is entirely possible to come into membership, to ooze in by osmosis, to leak through the cells of the church and never know what it means to be born of the Spirit and washed in the blood. A great deal that passes for the deeper life is nothing more or less than basic Christianity. There is nothing deeper about it, and it is where we should have been from the start. We should have been happy, joyous, victorious Christians walking in the Holy Spirit and not fulfilling the lusts of the flesh. Instead we have been chasing each other around the perpetual mountain.What we need is what the old Methodists called a sound conversion. There is a difference between conversion and a sound conversion. People who have never been soundly converted do not have the Spirit to enlighten them. When they read the Sermon on the Mount or the teaching passages of the epistles that tell them how to live or the doctrinal passages that tell how they can live, they are unaffected. The Spirit who wrote them is not witnessing in their hearts because they have not been born of the Spirit. That often happens.A W Tozer