A. B. Simpson
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.Collection: Thinking
God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.Collection: Humble
Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.Collection: Ears
The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!Collection: God
When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.Collection: Feelings
Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.Collection: Hope
Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others and for the kingdom of God? It will relieve you of a thousand cares.Collection: Beautiful
All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.Collection: God
When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction.Collection: Spiritual
The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.Collection: Christian
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.Collection: Heart
A friend ... said, "You were healed by faith." "Oh, no," I said, "I was healed by Christ." What is the difference? There is a great difference. There came a time when even faith seemed to come between me and Jesus. I thought I should have to work up the faith, so I laboured to get the faith. At last I thought I had it; that if I put my whole weight upon it, it would hold. I said, when I thought I had got the faith, "Heal me." I was trusting in myself, in my own heart, in my own faith. I was asking the Lord to do something for me because of something in me, not because of something in Him.Collection: Jesus
One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!Collection: Spirit Filled Life
One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.Collection: Reflection
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.Collection: Children
God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.Collection: Christian
Prayer is the link that connects us with God.Collection: Prayer
You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience.Collection: Blessing
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.Collection: Believe
We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death.Collection: Condolences
This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.Collection: Character
One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.Collection: Struggle
There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.Collection: Blessing
We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.Collection: Christian
Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.Collection: Blessed
We may not preach a crucified Savior without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.Collection: Men
Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?Collection: Missionary
The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is like the electric torch that shines over the water of New York Bay, struck by the wing of many a seabird that dashes against it in its reckless flight, but still shining on unmoved while the foolish and reckless assailant falls bleeding and wounded at its feet. It is an anvil which has worn out many a hammer of hostile criticism, while the anvil still remains unshaken amid the wreck of all that have assailed it.Collection: New York
We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.Collection: Prayer
Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.Collection: Home
If God's Word is not absolutely and completely true, it is too weak a cable to fix our anchorage and guarantee our eternal peace.Collection: Guarantees
The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.Collection: Lying
I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.Collection: Christian
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.Collection: Men
All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.Collection: Prayer
Christ rises above all things.Collection: Christ
It is not the part of faith to question, but to obey.Collection: Faith
We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.Collection: Years
The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.Collection: Heart
I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.Collection: Want
Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.Collection: Jesus
We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have truly received the kingdom of God and His righteousness, the natural is added to the spiritual, and we are able to receive the gifts of His providence and the blessings of life without becoming centered in them or allowing them to separate us from Him.Collection: Spiritual
Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.Collection: Hurt
Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.Collection: Jesus
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.Collection: Christian
Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.Collection: Prayer
The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer.Collection: Divine Wisdom
It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.Collection: Enough
You must have faith in God.Collection: Have Faith
Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.Collection: Expression