My Favorite Quotes
Some of my favorite quotes that inspire, encourage, and stretch me.
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“Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.” Charles H Spurgeon
“Jesus will lift you up out of the deepest pit. But He will not lift you up out of that arm chair.” Reinhard Bonnke
“I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God- it changes me.” C.S. Lewis
“In the Kingdom of God, your reach should exceed your grasp.” Sean Smith
“Many times when you are up against a wall, it is because God meant for you to break through it.” Sean Smith
“We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day – but remember at the time they didn’t know they were heroes” – AW Tozer
“A man who is intimate with God, is not intimidated by man.” Leonard Ravenhill
“As long as we are content to live without revival, we will.” Leonard Ravenhill
“If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?” Leonard Ravenhill
“I looked for the world and founf her in the church. I looked for the church and found her in the world. There needs to be a distinction, this compromise in the church has to stop.” Leonard Ravenhill
“In great times of change, learners inherit the earth while the ‘learned’ find themselves beautfully prepared for a world that no longer exists.” Eric Hoffer
“The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can’t help it.” Leo Rosten
“God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.” Jonathan Edwards
“Oh Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.” Jonathan Edwards
“Grace is the face that loves wears when it meets imperefction.” Joseph R. Cooke
“A womens heart should be so lost in Christ that a man should have to seek Him first to find her.” Unknown
“Nobody is so poor that they can’t give, and nobody is so rich that they don’t have needs.” Pastor Juan Antonio, Dominican Republic
“Prayer is not asking. True prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God at His dispositon, listening to His voice in the depths of our hearts.” Heidi Baker
“In the presence of God, you stop calculating and start believing.” Heidi Baker
“Jesus will lift you up out of the cycle of cause and effect and into the realm of His wonderful love.” Corrie Ten Boom
“God does not want gold or silver vessels, He wants yield vessels.” Kathryn Kuhlman
“The greatest power God has given to any individual is the power of prayer.” Kathryn Kuhlman
“Instead of only winning souls and making disciples – you should try loving people and making friends. People are not games that you can win, they are humans made in the image of God.” Benjamin Dunn
“The depth of your repentance will determine the height of your revival.” Frank Bartleman
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for. A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“What you read when you don’t have to determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” Oscar Wilde
“Sometimes I go to God and say, “God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me.” A.W. Tozer
“The history of a ministry is written in its prayer life.” Arthur Matthews
“We are not punished because of our sin. We are punished by our sin! That is why God hates sin.” Kris Vallotton
“Words become worlds.” Kris Vallotton
“Your gifts give you your ability, your calling gives you your identity, and your anointing is the very presence of God on your life.” Kris Vallotton
“Faith is not the result of striving, it’s the product of surrender.” Bill Johnson
“A culture of honor celebrates where someone is, without stumbling over what they are not.” Bill Johnson
“If you get caught seeking His hand instead of His face, just look up.” Bill Johnson
“Faith is the currency of Heaven. Faith gravs hold of the invisible, superior reality and it wont let go.” Bill Johnson
“Much of what you need in life will be brought to you, but most of what you desire you will have to go get.” Bill Johnson
“Whenever you pray what God is declaring, you align your heart to be a partner and a recipient.” Bill Johnson
“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” Mother Teresa
“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” Mother Teresa
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” Mother Teresa
“Only in Heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.” Mother Teresa
“Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelegence aglow.” Hellen Keller
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my cheif duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.” Hellen Keller
“Prayer has two parts. The first part is this: Ask, Seek, and Knock. The second part is: Recieving, Finding, and Open Doors. Prayer isn’t complete without the believing you have recieved, finding, and watching God open up the doors.” Banning Leibscher
“Holiness is this.. That in the midst of a culture who is surrounded by options there’s a generations that says; “God, You are the One that I choose!” Holiness is not a bunch of no’s but it’s one big YES that makes nothing else matter. Holiness is like marriage. Marriage isn’t about all the people you could be with but said no to, it’s about that one person that you said yes to. That one meaningful yes is what makes all of those no’s worthless.” Banning Liebscher
“We cannot exercise our faith beyond what we believe to be possible.” John G. Lake
“I feel that very frequently prayer is made a refuge to dodge the action of faith.” John G. Lake
“Never confuse faith and tradition.”
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle” Ryan McNutt
“We should be known for what we are for, not for what we are against. We aren’t here to curse the darkness but to shine His light.” Paul Scanlon
“When Jesus prepares a place for you, He prepares the way as well.” Dean Braxton
“When you’re corrected by a leader, what you do with it tells a lot about you. Attitude is everything.” Jenn Johnson
“Where you’re standing is just as important as where you are heading.” Rita Springer
“God’s plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day.” Lou Giglio
“The Lord is looking for people that can handle the weight of His blessing!” Bill Johnson
“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.” G.K. Chesterton
“I am not determined by the temptations I resist, but the passions I embrace.” Kris Vallotton
“Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service.” Charles Spurgeon
“Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and i care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. God does nothing but in answer to prayer.” John Wesley
