He was influenced by what he saw, He walked by sight, instead of by faith. I think that is where a great many Christian people make their mistake—walking by sight, instead of by faith. (Location 53)

Lot chose all he could get, but it was not much. Abram let God choose for him, and was given all the land. Lot had no security for his choice, and soon lost all. Abram’s right was maintained undisputed by God the giver. (Location 70)

He had the world under his feet; he was living for another world. He would not be enriched from such a source. (Location 100)

I know of nothing that speaks louder for Christ and Christianity than to see a man or woman giving up what they call their rights for others, and “in honor preferring one another.” (Location 121)

It seemed too good to be true. He had hard work to believe it; but at the appointed time (Location 144)

There must be no idol in the heart if we are going to do the will of God on earth. (Location 148)

Since I have become a father I have made this discovery: that it takes more love and self-sacrifice for the father to give up the son than it does for the son to die. (Location 184)

whenever God has been calling me to higher service, there has always been a conflict with my will. (Location 196)

If we make a full surrender, God will give us something better than we have ever known before. We will get a new vision of Jesus Christ, and will thank God not only in this life but in the life to come. (Location 207)

There are many people who start out with the idea that they are great and other people are small, and they are going to bring them up on the high level with themselves. God never yet used a man of that stamp. (Location 229)

He was very small in his own eyes—just small enough so that God could use him. (Location 232)

When men learn the lesson that they are nothing and God is everything, then there is not a position in which God cannot use them. (Location 238)

God uses men to speak to men: He works through mediators. (Location 242)

A man who has made a failure once is always afraid he will make another. He loses confidence in himself. It is a good thing to lose confidence in ourselves so as to gain confidence in God. (Location 246)

Now, if God has sent you and me with a message it is not for us to say whether others will believe it or not. We cannot make men believe. If I have been sent by God to make men believe, He will give me power to make them believe. Jesus Christ didn’t have that power; it is the work of the Holy Ghost; (Location 253)

My friends, we have too many orators. I am tired and sick of your “silver-tongued orators.” I used to mourn because I couldn’t be an orator. (Location 273)

It is the man who tells the plain, simple truth that has the most influence with the jury. (Location 278)

Make YOUR MESSAGE, AND NOT YOURSELF, the most prominent thing. Don’t be self-conscious Set your heart on what God has given you to do, (Location 298)

so it is with God’s message. The good news is everything, the minister nothing. (Location 355)

If it is the truth, God sent it, and it is a good deal better to have a man get mad than it is to have him go to (Location 380)

they are sound asleep, and it is a good deal better to rouse them even if they do wake up mad. (Location 382)

I never yet knew a man converted just in the time and manner he expected to (Location 397)

Men like to have something to do about their salvation; they don’t like to give up the idea that they can’t do anything; that God must do it all. (Location 417)

if we are going to get into the kingdom of God, right at the threshold of that kingdom we have to learn this doctrine of obedience, to do whatsoever He tells us. (Location 433)

“Well, I think I might as well try it.” That was THE STARTING-POINT OF HIS FAITH, (Location 438)

But when the Lord commanded him He gave the power. Power came with the command, (Location 455)

My friends, if you want God to bless you, obey Him. Do whatsoever He calls upon you to do, and then see if He will not bless you. (Location 456)

But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons and daughters of God.” (Location 471)

The men who have had power with God in prayer have always begun by confessing their sins. (Location 547)

when you get ready to stoop God will bless you. (Location 584)

If you and I are to be blessed in this world, we must be willing to take any position into which God puts us. (Location 586)

There are some men who are always telling what they are going to do. Man, let the work speak for itself. You needn’t blow any horns; go and do the work, and it will advertise itself. (Location 601)

That is what makes character. Men who can go into a hard field and succeed, they are the men we want. Any quantity of men are looking for easy places, but the world will never hear of them. We want men who are looking for hard places, who are willing to go into the darkest corners of the earth, and make those dark places bloom like gardens. They can do it if the Lord is with them. (Location 606)

He was a fanatic; he was terribly in earnest; he was an enthusiast. I like to see a man take up some one thing and say, “I will do it; I live for this thing; this one thing I am bound to do.” We spread out so much, and try to do so many things, that WE SPREAD SO THIN the world never hears of us. (Location 614)

It doesn’t take long to build the walls of a city if you can only get the whole of the people at it. If the Christians of this country would only rise up, we could evangelize America in twelve months. (Location 624)

Young man, if you wish to be successful in this world, don’t mind Sanballat or Tobiah. Don’t be kept out of the kingdom of God or out of active Christian work by the scorn and laughter and ridicule of your godless neighbors and companions. (Location 633)

There was NO EIGHT-HOUR WORKING DAY then; they were on duty from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared. They did not take off their clothes except to wash them. Fancy, this man who came from the Persian court with all its luxury, living and sleeping in his clothes for those fifty-two days! But he was in earnest. Ah, that is what we want! men who will set themselves to do one thing, and keep at it day and night. (Location 636)

A hundred enemies outside are not half so hard to deal with as one inside—a false friend. (Location 659)

If Nehemiah had remained at court, he might have died a millionaire, but he never would have been heard of twenty years after his death. Do you know the names of any of Nineveh’s millionaires? This man stepped out of that high position and took a low position, one that the world looked down upon and frowned upon, and his name has been associated with the walls of Jerusalem all these centuries. Young man, if you want to be immortal, become identified with God’s work, and pay no attention to what men outside say. (Location 666)

I don’t believe we shall have the right atmosphere in this country until we can get men who have backbone enough to stand up against the thing they believe is wrong. (Location 689)

When you find anything that is ruining your fellow men, fight it to its bitter end. (Location 708)

Men break the Sabbath and wonder why it is they have not spiritual power. (Location 712)

What we must have is a higher type of Christianity in this country. We must have a Christianity that has in it the principle of self-denial. We must deny ourselves. If we want power, we must be separate. (Location 714)

A man that works seven days in the week right along is cut off about five or ten years earlier. You cannot rob God. Why is it that so many railroad superintendents and physicians die early? It is because they work seven days in the week. (Location 717)

especially if he speaks in a fine building where there is a splendid choir, and if the meetings have been advertised and worked up for weeks or months beforehand. In such circumstances any man who has a gift for speaking will get a good audience. (Location 739)

Many a man would be willing to enter into the kingdom of God, if he could do it without giving up sin. (Location 864)

the Gospel of Jesus Christ proves either a savor of life unto life, or of death unto death? (Location 901)

Every time you hear the Gospel and reject it, the hardening process goes on. (Location 903)

the hardest people to reach are those who have been impressed, and whose impressions have worn away. (Location 906)

The Son of God does not ask men to believe Him without a reason for so doing. We need to keep this in mind. You might as well ask a man to see without light or eyes, as to believe without testimony. (Location 936)

He did just what Christ told him to do. (Location 946)

No two persons were ever converted exactly alike, so far as my experience goes. Each one must have an experience of his own. Let the Lord give sight in His own way. (Location 957)

Persons should never count upon having an experience precisely similar to that of some one else of whom they have heard or read. They must go right to the Lord Himself, and do what He tells them to do. (Location 961)

the next thing after we get our eyes opened is for us to open our lips and begin to testify for Him. (Location 977)

That is what a witness ought to do—tell what he knows, not what he does not know. (Location 980)

One of the greatest hindrances to the progress of the Gospel to-day is that the narration of the experience of the Church is not encouraged. (Location 982)

THE APOSTLE PAUL’S EXPERIENCE has been recorded three times. I have no doubt that he told it everywhere he went: how God had met him; how God had opened his eyes and his heart; and how God had blessed him. (Location 984)

experience has its place; the great mistake that is made now is in the other extreme. (Location 986)

If you can get young Christians to talk, not about themselves, but about Christ, their testimony will have power. (Location 997)

The new man always takes his stand for God; and the old man takes his stand against Him. (Location 1008)

They represent those Christians who do not want to serve Christ if it is going to cost them anything; if they have to give up society, position, or worldly pleasures. They do not want to come out. This is what keeps hundreds and thousands from becoming Christians. (Location 1014)

He was a worker, not an idler, and he kept his lips open. (Location 1039)

did you ever think of the many dumb children God has? (Location 1041)

if He is your Savior, confess Him. Every follower of Jesus should bear testimony for Him. How many opportunities each one has in society and in business to speak a word for Jesus Christ! (Location 1043)

If we give a clear testimony for Christ, the world will cast us out. It is a good thing to give our testimony so clearly for Christ that the world dislikes it; it is a good thing when such testimony for Christ causes the world to cast us out. (Location 1060)

It is a blessed thing to live so godly in Christ Jesus that the world will not want you—that they will cast you out. (Location 1073)

I am afraid there are MANY JOSEPHS TODAY, men of position, of whom it could be said they are secret disciples. (Location 1089)

Doubtless he upbraided himself for not having been more bold in his defence of Christ when He was tried, and before He was condemned to be crucified. (Location 1107)

there is NO CROWN WITHOUT A CROSS. (Location 1129)

The blind man could not have done what Joseph did. Some men can do what others cannot. God will hold us responsible for our own influence. Let each of us do what we can. (Location 1131)

We can afford to suffer with Him a little while if we are going to reign with Him for ever. We can afford to take up the cross and follow Him, to be despised and rejected by the world, with such a bright prospect in view. If the glories of heaven are real, it will be to His praise and to our advantage to share in His rejection now. (Location 1135)

Let us confess Him at all times and in all places. Let us show our friends that we are out and out on His side. Every one has a circle that he can influence, and God will hold us responsible for the influence we possess. (Location 1139)

There is not much hope of a man’s being saved until the fear of God comes upon him. (Location 1179)

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