Browse thought-provoking statements from later Christian history. The collection is ordered by attribution and divided into manageable pages.
A. W. Tozer:
“We need no new doctrine, no new movement, no ‘key,’ no imported evangelist or expensive ‘course’ to show us the way. It is before us as clear as a four-lane highway. To any inquirer…
A. W. Tozer:
“To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.”
A. W. Tozer:
“We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.”
A. W. Tozer:
“The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.”
A. W. Tozer:
“Christianity is decaying and going down into the gutter because the God of modern Christianity is not the God of the Bible.”
A. W. Tozer:
“One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team.”
A. W. Tozer:
“Most Christians don’t hear God’s voice because we’ve already decided we aren’t going to do what He says.”
A. W. Tozer:
“I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they’re dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they’re enemies.”
A. W. Tozer:
“I think there is a great contradiction apparent among us. Many women are working so hard in all kinds of jobs that they are making themselves old in the effort to get money enough…
A. W. Tozer:
“The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.”
Charles Finney:
“A vast deal of preaching in the present day, as well as in past ages, is called doctrinal, as opposed to practical preaching. The very idea of making this distinction is a device of…
Charles Finney:
“To preach doctrines in an abstract way, and not in reference to practice, is absurd. God always brings in doctrine to regulate practice. To bring forward doctrinal views for any other object is not…
Charles Finney:
“Preaching should be direct. The Gospel should be preached to men, and not about men. The minister must address his hearers. He must preach to them about themselves, and not leave the impression that…
Charles Finney:
“Preaching, to be understood, should be colloquial in style. A minister must preach just as he would talk, if he wishes fully to be understood. Nothing is more calculated to make a sinner feel…
Charles Finney:
“Many preachers seem very much afraid of making the impression that they mean anybody in particular. They are preaching against certain sins – not that these have anything to do with the sinner; they…
Charles Finney:
“How many times have you detected yourself in consulting vanity, about your dress and appearance? How many times have you thought more, and taken more pains, and than you have about preparing your mind…
Charles Finney:
“How often have you trifled before God, as you would not have dared to trifle in the presence of an earthly sovereign? You have either been an Atheist, and forgotten that there was a…
Charles Finney:
“Understand now what lying is. Any species of designed deception. If the deception {is not a design} it is not lying. But if you design to make an impression contrary to the naked truth,…
Charles Finney:
“How many times have you confessed sins that you did not mean to break off, and when you had no solemn purpose not to repeat them? Yes, have confessed sins when you knew you…
Elisabeth Elliot:
“If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to him and ask him to indicate which…
Elisabeth Elliot:
“The preoccupations of young women – their looks, their clothes, their social life – do not change very much from generation to generation. But in every generation, there seem to be a few who…
Elisabeth Elliot:
“Then comes intercession, the hardest work in the world – the giving of one’s self, time, strength, energy, and attention to the needs of others in a way that no one but God sees,…
G.K. Chesterton:
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
Keith Green:
“If you praise and worship Jesus with your mouth, and your life does not praise and worship Him, there’s something wrong!”