var quotes=new Array() //change the quotes if desired. Add/ delete additional quotes as desired. quotes[0]='"We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist--Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy."
A.W. Tozer' quotes[1]='"Revivals begin with God\'s own people; the Holy Spirit touches their heart anew, and gives them new fervor and compassion, and zeal, new light and life, and when He has thus come to you, He next goes forth to the valley of dry bones...Oh, what responsibility this lays on the Church of God! If you grieve Him away from yourselves, or hinder His visit, then the poor perishing world suffers sorely!"
Andrew A. Bonar' quotes[2]='"Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything."
Alexander Moody Stuart' quotes[3]='"While women weep, as they do now, I\'ll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I\'ll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I\'ll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I\'ll fight - I\'ll fight to the very end!"
William Booth' quotes[4]='"The nature of Christ\'s salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness."
A. W. Pink' quotes[5]='"There is no power like that of prevailing prayer, of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat of blood. Add to this list from the records of the church your personal observation and experience, and always there is the cost of passion unto blood. Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God."
Samuel Chadwick' quotes[6]='"Does it grieve you my friends, that the name of God is being taken in vain and desecrated? Does it grieve you that we are living in a godless age...But, we are living in such an age and the main reason we should be praying about revival is that we are anxious to see God\'s name vindicated and His glory manifested. We should be anxious to see something happening that will arrest the nations, all the peoples, and cause them to stop and to think again."
Martyn Lloyd-Jones' quotes[7]='"We need a Heaven-sent revival, a burning fire from on high,A purifying passion and a forsaking of our stubborn pride. We need a vision of eternity,of Hell and the Judgment Day, A fervent love for our Savior,that will gladly serve and obey. We need a Pentecostal purging and a breaking deep within, A vision of God Almighty and a river of tears for our nations sin. - We need a Heaven-sent revival, a burning fire set ablaze. Yet, we\'ll never see such glory, until the Church begins to pray."
David Smithers' quotes[8]='"If we do not meet Jesus at His \'mercy-seat\' we will most assuredly meet Him at His \'judgment-seat."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[9]='"A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper."
Theodore L. Cuyler' quotes[10]='"The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe."
D. L. Moody' quotes[11]='"In the Irish Revival of 1859, people became so weak that they could not get back to their homes. Men and women would fall by the wayside and would be found hours later pleading with God to save their souls. They felt that they were slipping into hell and that nothing else in life mattered but to get right with God... To them eternity meant everything. Nothing else was of any consequence. They felt that if God did not have mercy on them and save them, they were doomed for all time to come."
Oswald J. Smith' quotes[12]='"The time factor in prayer is very important. In the exercise of prayer God is not tied to our clocks. Neither is He at the other end of the phone to receive and answer our two-minute calls. It takes time to know the mind of God, to shut out the material things of earth and to be wholly abandoned."
Hugh C. C. McCullough' quotes[13]='"The coming of a revival is not always a guarantee for national peace and prosperity, but rather revival is often the providence of God to prepare us for suffering."
J. Edwin Orr' quotes[14]='"Are you living for the things you are praying for?"
Austin Phelps' quotes[15]='"And we ourselves are \'saved to save\' - we are made to give - to let everything go if only we may have more to give. The pebble takes in all the rays of light that fall on it, but the diamond flashes them out again; every little facet is a means, not simply of drinking more in, but of giving more out."
Lillias Trotter' quotes[16]='"The opportunity of a lifetime must be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity!"
Leonard Ravenhill' quotes[17]='"Today comes but once, and comes never to return. We hope it will come again tomorrow; but it does not. It is gone forever, with its inexhaustible possibilities, privileges and responsibilities."
Record of Christian Work, October 1908' quotes[18]='"The way to stimulate and provoke others unto good works is to strive to outrun them in the race. The way to rebuke the cold and indifferent is to be always full of zeal and \'abounding in the work of the Lord\' yourself. Men will be much more ready to answer a call to come up to your level, than a command to advance beyond you."
Record of Christian Work, May 1909' quotes[19]='"Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God\'s presence. It is vain to say, \'I have too much work to do to find time.\' You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him."
A. T. Pierson' quotes[20]='"Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it."
Matthew Henry 1706' quotes[21]='"The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts."
Richard Allelne' quotes[22]='"It is a costly and a suffering thing to come up against the religious system that has \' settled down\' here. It is far more costly than coming up against the naked world itself. The religious system can be more ruthless and cruel and bitter; it can be actuated by all those mean things, contemptible things, prejudices and suspicions things that you will not even find in decent people in the world. It is costly to go on to the heavenlies, it is painful; but it is the way of the pioneer, and it has to be settled that that is how it is."
T. Austin Sparks' quotes[23]='"Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are to interested in a great display. We want an exhibition; God is looking for a man who will throw himself entirely on God. Whenever self-effort, self-glory, self-seeking or self-promotion enters into the work of revival, then God leaves us to ourselves."
Ted S. Rendall' quotes[24]='"God\'s program for reviving His people is definite and clear. First Elijah \'repaired the altar of Jehovah that was thrown down.\' That is the place to begin. All the ruin that sin has wrought must be cleared away by confession. Things must be made right with God; restitution must be made where it is due. Unless this is done definitely and thoroughly, prayer for reviving is vain...Too many are praying today without repairing the altar by confession of sin, without digging a trench of separation from the world and without a surrender that is even unto death. No wonder such prayer is fruitless."
Andrew Gih' quotes[25]='"The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos; the church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray."
A. W. Tozer' quotes[26]='"Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become \'unity\' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship. Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life."
A. W. Tozer' quotes[27]='"There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord."
William Booth' quotes[28]='"Lord grant that the FIRE of my heart may melt the lead in my feet."
Unknown Author' quotes[29]='"The days in which we live are days of great opportunity and of grave responsibility, and a second-hand religion is not good enough for times such as these. They demand that we should always be at our best if we are to seize our opportunities and manfully shoulder our responsibilities."
J. A. Broadbelt' quotes[30]='"The loyalty of the soldier is proved where the battle rages."
Martin Luther' quotes[31]='"The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came...Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory."
R. A. Torrey' quotes[32]='"Is the Gospel really dynamite, or does it need all sorts of human institutions and money? Much of the work we have done in the name of Jesus Christ has been, not to perform miracles of the Holy Ghost, but miracles of gold."
David Griffin' quotes[33]='"Satan strikes either at the root of faith or at the root of diligence."
John Livingstone' quotes[34]='"If I am concerned that my flock be men and women of prayer, then, as their pastor, I must lead the way; apathy in me will produce apathy in them. The church prayer meeting ought to be the best attended in the week, and if it is, success will follow the ministry of the Word at the weekends. I would rather a thousand times set men and women to pray than teach them to preach."
J. D. Drysdale' quotes[35]='"A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts."
Samuel Chadwick' quotes[36]='"It is well to get rid of the idea that faith is a matter of spiritual heroism only for a few select spirits. There are heroes of faith, but faith is not only for heroes. \'It is a matter of spiritual manhood.
\'It is a matter of maturity."
P. T. Forsyth' quotes[37]='"Satan strikes either at the root of faith or at the root of diligence.
John Livingstone' quotes[38]='"Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused."
C. H. Spurgeon' quotes[39]='"The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church."
John R. Mott' quotes[40]='"The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts."
Richard Allelne' quotes[41]='"I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working."
James Hudson Taylor  Missionary to China 1800\'s' quotes[42]='"Whenever you touch reality in the spiritual realm, you touch things that are so vital that any normal, healthy person cannot fail to be moved. If we have today such ministry in our churches that men and women cannot be moved, there is something wrong with our preaching."
Donald Gee' quotes[43]='"Some years ago in China, at a meeting of missionaries and Chinese pastors, one of the Chinese pastors made a striking address. He said that he and his brethren were more than grateful to those who brought them the word of life and the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, but yet, he said, there was one thing more which missionaries should teach their spiritual children. This new thing was to pray with authority, so that they might know how to take their stand in faith before the throne and rebuke the forces of evil, holding steady and firm, and gain the victory over them. That same need is tremendously evident today in the experiences of all that are seeking to walk closely with the Lord, and to stand for Him in the face of increasing opposition. Some have spoken of this as \'throne prayer
praying with one\'s hand touching the throne of God."
T. Stanley Soltau' quotes[44]='"A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as a rule to desire innovation that might require sacrifice on their part. And God\'s fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire!"
Frank Bartleman' quotes[45]='"Christianity is a transforming as well as a penetrating principle. It changes the tastes, gives activity to the inclinations, and, together with a new heart, produces a new life."
Hannah More' quotes[46]='"The self-righteous never apologize."
Leonard Ravenhill' quotes[47]='"When young people first come out, how this one or that one makes an impression by ability, zeal or personality. It is easy to imagine such and such a one is going to make a great success. But it is wiser to wait and see. Often the unnoticed and less gifted ones by sheer diligence and devotion become the successes."
D. E. Hoste' quotes[48]='"A heart ready to melt at the sight of human suffering and need is necessary to successful soul winning. Where there is no real soul burden for sinners, there will be no revival. The early Church travailed in pain for the souls of dying men."
J. W. Mahood' quotes[49]='"Are you truly a Spirit-filled Christian? Does the term \'Spirit-filled\' describe your doctrine or your devotion?"
David Smithers' quotes[50]='"A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else\'s way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow."
C. H. Spurgeon' quotes[51]='"The self-righteous never apologize."
Leonard Ravenhill' quotes[52]='"The whole history of the Church is one long story of this tendency to settle down on this earth and to become conformed to this world, to find acceptance and popularity here and to eliminate the element of conflict and of pilgrimage. That is the trend and the tendency of everything. Therefore outwardly, as well as inwardly, pioneering is a costly thing."
T. Austin Sparks' quotes[53]='"True prayer will achieve just as much as it costs us.
Samuel M. Zwemer' quotes[54]='"I would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to preach; - A minister\'s highest mission ought to be to teach his people to pray."
H. MacGregor' quotes[55]='"Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him."
James Hudson Taylor' quotes[56]='"Go for souls - and go for the worst."
William Booth' quotes[57]='"Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you DAMNED?"
Leonard Ravenhill' quotes[58]='"The greatest campaign against temptation is Omnipotence changing human desire."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[59]='"Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He, who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life."
Thomas Brooks' quotes[60]='"A prayerless man is proud and independent, and any church that neglects corporate prayer is sadly no better. Only God\'s humble and needy children take the time to pray. Everyone else is just going through the motions and naively trusting in their own strength!"
David Smithers' quotes[61]='"Revival is the Church of God as a conquering army putting to rout the hosts of hell."
James A. Stewart' quotes[62]='"There is no question that God works, often powerfully, in the old structures. But it is inevitable that those very structures put serious limitations on His working. It is all too easy for the ground gained to be lost, for the situation to revert, and for the whole process to need repeating within a short space of time. Take the 1950, Lewis Awakening. Though confined to certain Presbyterian churches in the Outer Hebrides, this was a powerful movement of the Spirit that deeply affected those communities at the time. Many found faith in Christ, and some of these are now in full-time service. But the fact remains that in less than a decade you could visit those very churches where God had worked so powerfully and never suspect that they had ever tasted revival. Without a change of structure it is virtually Impossible to conserve the fruits of revival."
Arthur Wallis' quotes[63]='"Revival and change are almost synonymous terms and both clearly cut across traditionalism. There is no way true revival can occur without major changes disrupting and reordering the life of the Church... God is no traditionalist. While God is orderly, He is always fresh and vital. If a church can run according to forms and traditions of men, it will run without the presence and power of God ... Is it any wonder the love of tradition is an enemy to revival? Revival and new life go hand in hand ... Let every church realize that the inordinate love of tradition is a great opponent to revival ... When a church slays the love of tradition, a major obstacle to revival will be slain With it."
Richard Owen Roberts' quotes[64]='"We have all eternity to tell of victories won for Christ, but we have only a few hours before sunset to win them!"
Unknown Author' quotes[65]='"Hell is larger today than it was yesterday, because many of us have failed to pray."
David Smithers' quotes[66]='"The hour has struck, God has opened the doors to the nations for the Gospel, but the American church is asleep, dreaming the American dream."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[67]='"Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are to interested in a great display. We want an exhibition; God is looking for a man who will throw himself entirely on God. Whenever self-effort, self-glory, self-seeking or self-promotion enters into the work of revival, then God leaves us to ourselves."
Ted S. Rendall' quotes[68]='"A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: \'I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts. \'The workman answered: \'Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."
A. T. Pierson' quotes[69]='"It is not the bee\'s touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on divine truth, that will prove the choicest, strongest Christian."
Joseph Hall' quotes[70]='"The Light and the Love of God never separate. His Love is that of blazing holiness."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[71]='"When secular interests are passionately pursued, and spiritual truths are spurned or neglected, the god of this world is being worshipped and given preeminence."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[72]='"There exists an inherent emnity in each of us that challenges the Lordship of Jesus Christ. That challenge remains until His Sovereign Lordship decrees and destroys this emnity through regeneration."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[73]='"If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one GO there UNWARNED and UNPRAYED for."
Charles Spurgeon' quotes[74]='"Do not be satisfied with as much Christianity as will only ease your conscience."
J. B. Stoney' quotes[75]='"The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday."
Vance Havner' quotes[76]='"The whole history of the Church is one long story of this tendency to settle down on this earth and to become conformed to this world, to find acceptance and popularity here and to eliminate the element of conflict and of pilgrimage. That is the trend and the tendency of everything. Therefore outwardly, as well as inwardly, pioneering is a costly thing."
T. Austin Sparks' quotes[77]='"To arouse one man or woman to the tremendous power of prayer for others, is worth more than the combined activity of a score of average Christians."
A. J. Gordon' quotes[78]='"How long will it take us to learn that our shortest route to the man next door is by way of God\'s throne?"
A. T. Pierson' quotes[79]='"Never look for peace while you proclaim war!"
William Bramwell' quotes[80]='\'The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church."
John R. Mott' quotes[81]='"The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts."
Richard Allelne' quotes[82]='"I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working."
James Hudson Taylor  Missionary to China 1800\'s' quotes[83]='"Whenever you touch reality in the spiritual realm, you touch things that are so vital that any normal, healthy person cannot fail to be moved. If we have today such ministry in our churches that men and women cannot be moved, there is something wrong with our preaching."
Donald Gee' quotes[84]='"Some years ago in China, at a meeting of missionaries and Chinese pastors, one of the Chinese pastors made a striking address. He said that he and his brethren were more than grateful to those who brought them the word of life and the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, but yet, he said, there was one thing more which missionaries should teach their spiritual children. This new thing was to pray with authority, so that they might know how to take their stand in faith before the throne and rebuke the forces of evil, holding steady and firm, and gain the victory over them. That same need is tremendously evident today in the experiences of all that are seeking to walk closely with the Lord, and to stand for Him in the face of increasing opposition. Some have spoken of this as \'throne prayer" praying with one\'s hand touching the throne of God."
T. Stanley Soltau' quotes[85]='"A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as a rule to desire innovation that might require sacrifice on their part. And God\'s fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire!"
Frank Bartleman' quotes[86]='"Christianity is a transforming as well as a penetrating principle. It changes the tastes, gives activity to the inclinations, and, together with a new heart, produces a new life."
Hannah More' quotes[87]='"The self-righteous never apologize."
Leonard Ravenhill' quotes[88]='"When young people first come out, how this one or that one makes an impression by ability, zeal or personality. It is easy to imagine such and such a one is going to make a great success. But it is wiser to wait and see. Often the unnoticed and less gifted ones by sheer diligence and devotion become the successes."
D. E. Hoste' quotes[88]='"A heart ready to melt at the sight of human suffering and need is necessary to successful soul winning. Where there is no real soul burden for sinners, there will be no revival. The early Church travailed in pain for the souls of dying men."
J. W. Mahood' quotes[89]='"Are you truly a Spirit-filled Christian? Does the term \'Spirit-filled\' describe your doctrine or your devotion?"
David Smithers' quotes[90]='"A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else\'s way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow."
C. H. Spurgeon' quotes[91]='"The self-righteous never apologize."
Leonard Ravenhill' quotes[92]='"The whole history of the Church is one long story of this tendency to settle down on this earth and to become conformed to this world, to find acceptance and popularity here and to eliminate the element of conflict and of pilgrimage. That is the trend and the tendency of everything. Therefore outwardly, as well as inwardly, pioneering is a costly thing."
T. Austin Sparks' quotes[93]='"True prayer will achieve just as much as it costs us."
Samuel M. Zwemer' quotes[94]='"I would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to preach; - A minister\'s highest mission ought to be to teach his people to pray."
H. MacGregor' quotes[95]='"The greatest campaign against temptation is Omnipotence changing human desire."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[96]='"The hour has struck, God has opened the doors to the nations for the Gospel, but the American church is asleep, dreaming the American dream."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[97]='"The Light and the Love of God never separate. His Love is that of blazing holiness."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[98]='"When secular interests are passionately pursued, and spiritual truths are spurned or neglected, the god of this world is being worshipped and given preeminence."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[99]='"There exists an inherent emnity in each of us that challenges the Lordship of Jesus Christ. That challenge remains until His Sovereign Lordship decrees and destroys this emnity through regeneration."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[100]='"Tolerence (regarding sin) is the arch-enemy of spiritual maturity and growth, but it seems to be the creed of the modern church."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[101]='"Set before each Christian are two crowns. One is the crown of man\'s esteem and applaud, the other is man\'s despite and rejection for God\'s glory. One crown forfeits the other. Which will we bear?"
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[102]='"The greatest threat to American Christianity is standing behind its pulpits."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[103]='"The prince of this world has a congregation that is quite devout; it is every Christian\'s duty to interrupt their devotion by preaching the Gospel to them."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[104]='"The brutal realities of this life loose the sharpness of their sting as Christians encourage one another in their Lord."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[105]='"It is not the Christian\'s duty to count one another\'s blemishes, but to stand in awe of Christ\'s perfections."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[106]='"It is not the words we speak that brings comfort to the grieving, but the actual sharing of their grief, identifying with them by our love that is most beneficial."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[107]='"Many desire heaven\'s glory, but few desire heaven\'s King."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[108]='"The inward heritage of Adam\'s transgression can only be discomfited by the inward heritage of Christ\'s righteousness appropriated by faith."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[109]='"Truth will either judge and condemn, or empower and bless, depending on how it is responded to."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[110]='"If Jesus was neither a Calvinist or an Arminian today, neither side would accept Him."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[111]='"Woe to the nation that discards its unborn as refuse and exalts animal life above human."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[112]='"What you yield yourself to the most determines what you become one with. What you become one with determines what you will bring forth; it will be either life or death."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[113]='"If your Christianity is not costing you all that is dear to this present world, your friendship with it has not been broken."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[114]='"Eloquence should not be confused with anointing. The first produces flattery, the second repentance."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[115]='"Christian, stop looking for the fierce wolves and begin looking for the sly little foxes. It is not the threats from without that destroy us, but the threats from within; the maladies of the heart."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[116]='"Commitment, Passion, and Perseverance, are three cardinal virtues that seem to be absent in the modern church."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[117]='"Undisciplined parents inadvertently mold undisciplined children; chaos in the home is the predecessor to chaos in the community."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[118]='"The early church was acclimated to the upper room; today\'s cultural church is acclimated to the supper room. Our church dinners are packed, our prayer rooms are empty, but we want apostolic power. Apostolic power follows apostolic succession."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[119]='"Salvation that asserts no power over sin is wholly foreign to New Testament Christianity."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[120]='"I wonder if hearing the tormented voices within hell would boost our evangelistic efforts more than the Bible has?"
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[121]='"The wars fought in this generation have not been won by conventional means, but unconventional. The conventional church will not prevail in her plight against darkness. Only a red-hot unconventional Holy Ghost empowered church will suffice."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[122]='"Think not that your forgiven sins will have no earthly consequences."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[123]='"Sometimes radical change is the only means to overcome the radical difficulties you face."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[124]='"Life can be endlessly busy, and still be hopelessly empty."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[125]='"When nothing is working right, try LOVE, it never fails."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[126]='"Could it be that the mercy we receive is proportionate to the mercy we\'ve shown?"
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[127]='“The greatest gift we can give to our generation, is our life nailed to Christ\'s cross."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[128]='"The contemporary church doesn\'t need prayer; the flesh seems to be giving it all it desires."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[129]='"If you\'re not as radical for Christ as you were for your sins, the authenticity of your claim to His Name needs to be challenged."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[130]='"Both calm and violent seas are set before the Christian, therefore we must have an Anchor that is steadfast."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[131]='"We\'re either contending for the faith, or pretending to be in the faith."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[132]='"Christians can all assemble in the same building week after week and be scattered and separated from one another in their hearts."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[133]='"Unwavering commitment is an evidence of true Christianity."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[134]='"Christianity is not a party; it is a war!"
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[135]='"If you\'re alive, preach the Gospel; silence is for the dead."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[136]='"If God\'s love is unconditional, shouldn\'t it be so for those who bear His Name?"
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[137]='"If we do not show as much mercy as we have been shown, we could be in for a troublesome future."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[138]='"Cappuccino Christianity is the laughing stock of Hell."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[139]='“I\'m amazed how little passion there is in the church for lost souls! What is the church passionate for?"
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[140]='"Prayer is the effect of your relationship with Jesus Christ; not the cause of it."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[141]='"Our generation does not need a new definition of Christianity, but a new demonstration of it."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[142]='“This life is only a proving ground for eternity. Our passionate investments in earthen endeavors are choking out the heavenly opportunities set before us by our Lord. Our love affair with this present world needs to file for divorce."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[143]='"When my Cross becomes heavy, to the point it is unbearable, I can know it is doing it\'s perfect work."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[144]='"What I boldly do in secret, I will shamefully hide in public."
A. Hypocrite' quotes[145]='"Love should not wane at the onslaught of conflict; it should endure and overcome it."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[146]='“If the cross is not "cross"-ing your comfort zone, and requiring your life at its demands, your cross is only doctrinal, not actual. Crosses that are only doctrinal deceive, actual crosses that are shouldered daily crucify."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[147]='"Religion is passive. Christianity is aggresive."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[148]='“Being positively joyful in our attitudes amidst negative situations enables the electricity of God to flow into our lives!"
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[149]='“Imagine what the world would be like if Christians were as devoted to Christ as the lost are to their sins."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[150]='"Christian, shouldn\'t your battle cry be heralded in foreign lands instead of your protected camps?"
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[151]='"The toxic euphoria of sin will never prove satisfactory to the Christian."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[152]='"The Christian should not pursue that which he cannot keep, nor should he abstain from that which he can."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[153]='"The Christian\'s most challenging work is to enter into His rest. Not the rest of complacency, but the rest of abiding in Him."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[154]='"Every Christian has access to the deeper life in Christ, yet access and apprehension are two separate things. Access is God\'s willingness; apprehension is man\'s relentless pursuit. Few ever trod these sacred grounds; the cost is too significant."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[155]='"The martyrs found greater value in that which they were to possess than that which they possessed already."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[156]='"Missionary fervor is an evidence of a healthy church; the lack thereof is a sign of spiritual poverty."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[157]='"The blood of the martyrs is not the seed of the church, but the declaration of it."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[158]='“The esteemed religious system of today has a unique kinship to the one that crucified our Lord."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[159]='"Religious idealisms that are culturally relevant can never be New-Testament in nature; the true Gospel is an assault against our culture, not a friend of it."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[160]='"The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not only a revelation of the rabid wickedness of mankind, but a divine conquest to overthow it."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[161]='“Our primeval parents sewed fig leaves to cover the shame of their sinfulness. Today’s generation has lost this inherent instinct, arrogantly boasting in her nakedness without any sense of shame."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[162]='"Raising godly children in a culture that has been baptized in sin is an exhaustive campaign that few Christian parents are willing to launch."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[163]='"Removing daffodils, pastel colored eggs, pink bunny rabbits, and candy filled baskets from Easter would suffice to split many religious assemblies."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[164]='"The Cross of Jesus Christ is more than a symbolic icon; it is a transforming instrument of death. It\'s evidence in your life is a conquered and submissive will; not the dime-store religious apparel hanging around your neck."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[165]='"The question is not whether the Bible is relevant to our culture; but is our culture relevant to the Bible. The scriptures will judge us; not we them."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[166]='"The greatest parenting pitfall is disciplining the act of a child\'s disobedience and not the attitude that gave birth to it."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[167]='"The Cross is God demonstrating His Love; the Resurrection is God demonstrating His power."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[168]='"The value of the resurrection of Jesus Christ is more than historical. It is a perpetual and personal inward transforming power that cultivates Christ\'s image in those belonging to Him."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[169]='"The manipulation of scripture to condone personal sin may waive your indicting conscience, but it cannot waive God\'s judgment."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[170]='"The doctrinal trajectory of of the name it, claim it crowd infers God\'s habitation to be more in tune with Las Vegas than the high and lofty place of infinite holiness."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[171]='"The providences of faith and grace in regeneration have no kinship to the iron-clad methodology being practiced in modern Christendom. Our repeat this, and sign this, is wholly foreign to New Testament pattern and it has created a sub-culture of unregenerate church-goers."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[172]='"The modern church is suffering from acute doctrinal anemia.  This disorder has given birth to the pursuit of every whim and fad that blows across the plains of religious popularity."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[173]='"The first ministry of the Christian must always be unto the Lord. Only then will divine blessedness rest upon our earthen engagements."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[174]='"Relational based Christianity void of doctrinal Truth is the cause of inordinate attachments to anything that arouses our emotions; regardless of the origin."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[175]='"Hopelessness is for satan and his subjects; the Christian focuses upon the horizon of hope in his Christ, regardless of the turbulent circumstances."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[176]='“The cross of Jesus Christ is the epiphany of God’s justice. The divine indictment against sin required righteous blood to be shed to appease God\'s judgment and wrath."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[177]='"Deception is empowered when Truth is not passionately embraced"
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[178]='"It would be greatly beneficial for the modern church to re-dig the old wells, recovering that which has been discarded; solid biblical orthodoxy."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[179]='"Divine providence is often the cause of situational thorns; controlled suffering. Challenging the hand of Sovereignty will prove futile; receiving grace from it will not."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[180]='"The sensitivity that produces intolerance to the judgment of personal sin finds its author to be a squelched conscience."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[181]='"Our Christianity will never conquer heathen lands until it conquers our heathen hearts."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[182]='"Fraudulent Christianity is marked by its unbreakable lust for material blessings. Authentic Christiananity is marked by its unbreakable passion for the glory of God."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[183]='"Divine providence is often the cause of situational thorns; controlled suffering. Challenging the hand of Sovereignty will prove futile; receiving grace from it will not."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[184]='"The sensitivity that produces intolerance to the judgment of personal sin finds its author to be a squelched conscience."
Pastor Derek Melton ' quotes[185]='"Our Christianity will never conquer heathen lands until it conquers our heathen hearts."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[186]='"Fraudulent Christianity is marked by its unbreakable lust for material blessings. Authentic Christiananity is marked by its unbreakable passion for the glory of God."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[187]='"God designed redeemed man to live for greater purposes than material comforts; a life commited to the glory of God through world missions is the pinnacle experience!"
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[188]='"Whole lifetimes have been wasted laboring for things which perish. May we deeply plant our lives within the call of Christ, and give away what we cannot keep."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[189]='"Where are the valiant Christians with vision clear enough to see that their lives are most productive, planted in the fertile soil of the 10/40 missionary window; not throwing them away in the land of American dreams?"
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[190]='"In America there is one full-time Christian Pastor for every 182 people. In the 10/40 missionary window there is one Christian missionary for every 78,000 people. There are 1240 cultural groups that have never heard the name Jesus Christ. The mandate, the math, and the languishing multitudes, should stir our hearts to invest our lives in the neglected fields that are ripe unto harvest."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[191]=' “We never quite know the strength of the sins to which we are chained, until we try to walk away from them.”
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[192]='"Abortion may temporarily solve the dilemma of personal inconvenience, but the cries of the unborn never cease before the ears of God\'s holiness and justice."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[193]='"The Christian that is deeply committed to the local church, is most secure when the bellows of adversity blow."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[194]='"Radical change is the effect of powerful grace. Why do Christians resist it like it is a disease?"
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[195]='"The true church is not a combined mixture of goats and sheep that define most congregations; but only those within, that are following His omnipotent voice in stedfast obedience and commitment."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[196]='"The Christian most fearful of being judged by other Christians most often finds the true accuser to be his own conscience."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[197]='"Revival is never purposed unto euphoric sensationalism, but purely a divine extraction of His people from the rhetoric of traditionalism, and an exercising of divine sovereignty in the overtaking of His church."
Pastor Derek Melton ' quotes[198]='"The glory of revival powerfully stirs the church, but the bitter tears of burdened prayer powerfully stirs God."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[199]='"The individual living outside the sphere of Christ\'s asserted Lordship is living inside the sphere of God\'s anger and wrath."
Pastor Derek Melton ' quotes[200]='"The catalyst of deception is biblical illiteracy."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[201]='"Great men never purpose themselves to become great; but to become nothing. It is their nearness to a great God that has defined their greatness."
Pastor Derek Melton' quotes[202]='"Christian, you are called to be a pilgrim in this present world; not a participant. Dual citizenship is forbidden."
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