Famous Quotes (Law)

Famous Quotes

Famous Quotes

A.W. Tozer “within the circles of evangelical Christianity itself there has arisen in the last few years dangerous and

disturbing trends away from true Bible Christianity. A spirit has been introduced which is surely not the Spirit of Christ,

methods employed which are wholly carnal, objectives adopted which have not one line of scripture to support them, a

level of conduct accepted which is practically identical with that of the world-and yet scarcely one voice has been raised

in opposition...So radically is the essential spirit and content of orthodox Christianity changing these days under the

vigorous leadership of undiscerning religionists that, if the trend is not stopped, what is called Christianity will soon be

something altogether other than the faith of our fathers.”

Law, Judgment etc.

A. W. Tozer “God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is

'too kind' to punish the ungodly has become deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows

them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws everyday nearer and the command to repent goes

unregarded. As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future."

Charles Spurgeon “Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick

without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them. And what happens? They laugh at you. They dance upon their own

graves and at last they die. Your delicacy is cruelty, your flatteries are poisons you are a murderer. Shall we keep men in

a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumber from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of

their damnation bu our smooth speeches? In the name of God we will not."

Charles Finney “The essence of the Law should be unsparingly applied to the conscience until the sinners self

righteousness is annihilated and he stands speechless and self condemned before a hold God.”

Charles Spurgeon “Lower the law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt. This is a very serious loss to the

sinner rather than a gain, for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion...I say you have deprived the

gospel of its ablest auxiliary (most powerful weapon) when you have taken away the schoolmaster that is to bring men to

Christ.. They will never accept grace until they tremble before a just and holy law. Therefore the law serves most

necessary and blessed purpose and must not be moved from its place.

What Paris Reidhead had to say about John Wesley's preaching: “Wesley was a preacher of righteousness. He would

exalt the holiness of God the law of God, the justice of God, the wisdom of God, the wisdom of His requirements and the

justice of His wrath. Then he would turn to the sinners and tell them of the enormity of their crimes, their open rebellion,

their treason, and their anarchy. The power of God would descend so mightily that it is reliably reported, one one

occasion, when the people dispersed there were eighteen hundred people laying on the ground, completely unconscious

because they had a revelation of the holiness of God, and in the light of that they had seen the enormity of their own sin.”

John Wesley “If the gospel is preached well sinners should be angry or convicted of sin righteousness and judgement to

come. If they are not then I don't think they are to be an evangelist.

Catherine Booth “If you haven't got tears in your eyes let them see tears in your voice."

William Booth he would have liked to dangle his street team above hell for 20 minutes before going out onto the streets.

John Wesley “Before I can preach love, mercy and grace, I must preach sin, Law and judgment.

Ozwald Chambers “Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.”

Matthew Henry “Of this excellent use is the law: it converts the soul, opens the eyes, prepares the way of the Lord in the

desert, rends the rocks, levels the mountains, makes a people prepared for the Lord.”

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John Wesley “It is the ordinary method of the Spirit of God to convict sinners by the Law. It is this which, being set home

in the conscience, generally breaketh the rocks in pieces. It is more especially this part of the word of God which is quick

and powerful, full of life and energy and sharper than any two-edged sword.

Martin Luther “The proper effect of the Law is to lead us out of our tents and tabernacles, that is to say, from the

quietness and security wherein we dwell, and from trusting in ourselves, and to bring us before the presence of God, to

reveal His wrath to us, and to set us before our sins.”

Billy Graham “The Holy Spirit convicts us...He shows us the ten Commandments; the law is the schoolmaster that leads

us to Christ. We look at the mirror of the Ten Commandments, and we see ourselves in that mirror.

A.B. Earl (Famous evangelist of the last century who had 150,000 converts to substantiate his claims) “I have found by

long experience that the severest threatenings of the law of God have a prominent place in leading them to Christ: they

must see themselves lost before they will cry for mercy; they'll not escape danger until they see it.”

John Wycliffe (The Bible translator) “The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God.”

Martin Luther “The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's moral law and to show the nature of sin.”

Martin Luther “Satan, the god of all dissension stirs up daily new sects. And last of all which of all others I should never

have foreseen or once suspected, he has raised up a sect such as teach that men should not be terrified by the law, but

gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.

John Wesley “Preach 90 percent Law and 10 percent grace.”

Charles Spurgeon “They will never accept grace until they tremble before a just and holy law.” George Whitfield said “That

is why we have so many mushroom converts.” (People springing up overnight then disappearing .)

Charles Finney “Evermore the law must prepare the way for the gospel. To overlook this in instructing souls is almost

certain to result in false hope; the instruction of a false standard of Christian experience and to fill the church with false

converts.

John Wesley (saying about people who failed to use God's law in evangelism) “All this proceeds from the deepest

ignorance of the nature of the properties and the use of the law, and proves that these who act they neither know about

Christ, or are strangers to living faith, or at least they're but babes in Christ, and as such unskilled in the word of

righteousness.”

Charles Finney “I remark the law is the rule and the only just rule by which the guilt of sin can be measured.”

D.L. Moody “This is what God gives us the law for; to show ourselves in our true colours.”

Martin Luther “I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived' (Romans 7:9). So it is with

the work-righteous and the proud unbelievers. Because they do not know the Law of God, which is directed against

them, it is impossible for them to know their sin. Therefore also they are not amenable to instruction. If they would know

the Law, they would also know their sin; and sin to which they are now dead would become alive in them.”

Martyn Lloyd-Jones “The trouble with people who are not seeking for a Saviour, and for salvation, is that they do not

understand the nature of sin. It is the peculiar function of the Law to bring such an understanding to a man's mind and

conscience. That is why great evangelical preachers 300 years ago in the time of the Puritans, and 200 years ago in the

time of Whitefield and others, always engaged in what they called a preliminary 'Law work.'”

R. C. Sproul “Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the

oracles of God. This was the recipe for success for the false prophets of the Old Testament.”

John MacArthur “Grace means nothing to a person who does not know he is sinful and that such sinfulness means he is

separated from God and damned. It is therefore pointless to preach grace until the impossible demands of the Law and

the reality of guilt before God are preached.”

Charles Spurgeon “I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law.”

Melanchthon “There are many who speak only of the forgiveness of sin, but who say little or nothing about repentance. If

there is nevertheless no forgiveness of sins without repentance, so also forgiveness of sins cannot be understood

without repentance. Therefore, if forgiveness of sins is preached without repentance, it follows that the people imagine

they have already received the forgiveness of sins, and thereby they become cocksure and fearless, which is then

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greatest error and sin than all the error that preceded our time.”

William Booth “The chief danger of the 20th century will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ,

forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.”

C.S. Lewis “When we merely say that we are bad, the 'wrath' of God seems a barbarous doctrine; as soon as we perceive

our badness, it appears inevitable, a mere corollary from God's goodness...”

John R. W. Stott “We cannot come to Christ to be justified until we have first been to Moses to be condemned. But once

we have gone to Moses and acknowledged our sin, guilt and condemnation, we must not stay there.”

Dan Arnold “The gospel has not been clearly preached if the hearer doesn't know that not to make a decision is a

decision.”

Charles Spurgeon “Preach earnestly the love of God in Christ Jesus, and magnify the abounding mercy of the Lord; but

always preach it in connection with His justice.”

Franklin Graham “Each person we meet on a daily basis who does not know Christ is hell-bound. That may make some

folks bristle-but it's a fact. When we refuse to warn people that their actions and lifestyles have eternal consequences,

we're not doing them any favors. If everybody feels good about his or her sin, why would anyone repent.?”

Motivation

Jesus Christ “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.” (fishing for men is fruit of following Jesus).

Author Unknown “My friend I stand in Judgment now. I can't help but feel your to blame somehow. You knew the Saviour

in truth and glory, but never did you tell the story. You walked with Him day by day but never did you show the way. My

knowledge then was very dim, you could have led me close to Him. I stand now before eternal hell because of heavens

glory you didn't tell.”

Todd P McCollum “Evangelism is the cure to the disease of church boredom.”

Charles Spurgeon “No pursuit of mortal men is to be compared with that of soul-winning.

Author Unknown “The early disciples were fishers of men – while modern disciples are often little more than aquarium

keepers.

Charles Spurgeon “Save some, O Christians! By all means, save some. From yonder flames and outer darkness, and the

weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth, seek to save some! Let this, as in the case of the apostle, be your great, ruling

object in life, that by all means you might save some.”

John Wesley “You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work. And go not only to

those that need you, but to those that need you most...It is not your business to preach so many times, and to take care

of this or that society; but to save as many souls as you can; to bring as many sinners as you possibly can to repentance.”

Catherine Booth “A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were fed and equipped for war, not a place to

settle down in or a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever, they, our soldiers do settle down

God will burn their barracks over their heads!”

Oswald J. Smith “Oh my friends we are loaded down with countless church activities, while the rel work of the church, that

of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected.”

Charles Spurgeon “Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself, be sure of that.”

C. T. Studd “We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good, but when used as a substitute

for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism. To your knees man! Go to your Bible!

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Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flys! Loose your insults to God. Quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying,

and cowardly excuses. Enlist!”

A. W. Pink “It is true that many are praying for world-wide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for

prayer to be made to the Lord of the harvest, that He would raise up and thrust forth laborers who would fearlessly and

faithfully preach those truths to which are calculated to bring revival about.”

Charles Spurgeon “Even if I were utterly selfish and had no care for anything but my own happiness, I would choose, if

God allowed, to be a soul winner, for never did I know perfect, overflowing, unutterable happiness of the purest and most

ennobling order till I first heard of one who had sought and found a Saviour through my means.”

D. James Kennedy “I can tell you that there is no greater joy than leading someone to faith in Jesus Christ. Even if they

reject your message, it still feels great to obey Christ. Yet regardless of how we feel, we need to remember this is what

He has commanded.”

Samuel Chadwick “Why does the Church stay indoors? They have a theology that has dwindled into a philosophy, in

which there is no thrill of faith, no terror of doom, and no concern for souls. Unbelief has put out the fires of passion, and

worldliness garlands the altar of sacrifice with the tawdry glitter of unreality.”

Mark Cahill “The number one reason people don't share their faith is that their walk doesn't match their talk.”

Charles Spurgeon “She is a traitor to the Master who sent her if she is so beguiled by the beauties of taste and art as to

forget that to 'preach Christ...and Him crucified' is the only object for which she exists among the sons of men. The

business of the Church is salvation of souls.”

A. W. Tozer “Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late-and how little revival has resulted?

I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray for

revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble.

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.”

Charles Spurgeon “I have no confidence at all in polished speech or brilliant literacy effort to bring about a revival, but I

have all the confidence in the world in the poor saint who would weep her eyes out because people are living in sin.”

Charles Spurgeon “You must have, more or less, a distinct sense of the dreadful wrath of God and of the terrors of the

judgment to come, or you will lack energy in your work and so lack one of the essentials of success.”

Charles Spurgeon “If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them

perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of

our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned or unprayed for."

Catherine Booth (?) “This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls."

Charles Spurgeon Your one buisiness in life is to lead men to believe in Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit

every other thing should be made subservient to this objective.

Charles Spurgeon No sort of defense is needed for preaching out of doors; but it would need very potent arguments to

prove that a man had done his duty who has never preached beyond the walls of his meeting place.

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