POWER PACK QUOTES
1. Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.
2. Salvation is worth working for. It is worth a man’s going round the world on his hands and knees, climbing its mountains, crossing its valleys, swimming its rivers, going through all manner of hardship in
3. order to attain it. But we do not get it in that way. It is to him who believes.
4. I believe Satan to exist for two reasons: first, the Bible says so; and second, I’ve done business with him.
5. The great preacher F. B. Meyer once asked D. L. Moody, “What is the secret of your success?” Moody replied, “For many years I have never given an address without the consciousness that the Lord may come before I have finished.” This may well explain the intensity of his service and the zeal of his ministry for Christ.
6. I have more trouble with D. L. Moody than with any other man I ever met.
7. God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.
8. When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.
9. When God wants to move a mountain, he does not take a bar of iron, but he takes a little worm. The fact is, we have too much strength. We are not weak enough. It is not our strength that we want. One drop of God’s strength is worth more than all the world.
10. Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them.
11. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb.
12. If I walk with the world, I can’t walk with God.
13. Some people go back into the past and rake up all the troubles they ever had, and then they look into the future and anticipate that they will have still more trouble, and then they go reeling and staggering all through life.
14. We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
15. A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.
16. Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad.
17. Be careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.
18. Sin will keep you from this Book or this Book will keep you from sin.
19. Those who say they will forgive but can’t forget, bury the hatchet, but they leave the handle out for immediate use.
20. It is not necessary that we should be able to tell where or how we have been converted, but it is important that we should be able to tell that we are converted.
21. Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow.
22. Earth recedes, heaven opens. I’ve been through the gates! Don’t call me back … if this is death, it’s sweet. Dwight! Irene! I see the children’s faces. [Dwight and Irene were his dead grandchildren.] Give me a person who says, “This one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in.”
23. If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.
24. More depends on my walk than talk.
25. I prayed for faith and thought that some day faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” I had up to this time closed my Bible and prayed for faith. I now opened my Bible and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.
26. Real true faith is man’s weakness leaning on God’s strength.