May Quotes

May 1

Men ablaze are invincible. Hell trembles when men kindle. The stronghold of Satan is proof against everything but fire. The Church is powerless without the flame of the Holy Ghost. Destitute of fire, nothing else really counts; possessed of fire, nothing else really matters. The one vital need is fire. Without the flame and fervour of the Holy Ghost the Church will never accomplish its mission. —Samuel Chadwick

May 2

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints. —J. I. Packer

May 3

We should not take the blessings of God for granted. We should always be careful to give God praise and thanksgiving for the work that he does in our lives. —Chuck Smith

May 4

When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me. —Dietrich Bonhoeffer

May 5

The kind of trust God wants us to have cannot be learned in comfort and ease. —Anne Graham Lotz

May 6

When I hear Christians say, "I don't do this, and I don't do that, and I am following a set of rules," I immediately recognize that they know very little about the grace of God. They are trying to live the Christian life in their own strength. But Paul says, "Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." —J. Vernon McGee

May 7

Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you. —Billy Sunday

May 8

If Jesus Christ isn't strong enough to motivate you to live biblically, you don't know Him at all. —Paul Washer

May 9

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all. —David Livingstone

May 10

Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist. —Amy Carmichael

May 11

Great grief prays with great earnestness. Prayer is not a collection of balanced phrases; it is the pouring out of the soul. What is love if it be not fiery? What are prayers if the heart be not ablaze? They are the battles of the soul. In them men wrestle with principalities and powers... The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul. —Samuel Chadwick

May 12

I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him, because He first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, One who loves me; and there is no moment when His eye is off me, or His attention distracted for me, and no moment, therefore, when His care falters. —J. I. Packer

May 13

God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works. —Chuck Smith

May 14

Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience. —Dietrich Bonhoeffer

May 15

My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming next is something so glorious that the Bible says minds can't conceive it, eye has never seen, your imagination could never even enter into all that God is preparing for those who love him. —Anne Graham Lotz

May 16

As someone has said, we either crucify or crown the Lord Jesus by our lives. —J. Vernon McGee

May 17

The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you. —Billy Sunday

May 18

You may say, 'God doesn't hate anybody. God is love.' No, my friend. You need to understand something. Jesus Christ taught, the prophets taught, the apostles taught this: that apart from the grace of God revealed in Jesus Christ our Lord the only thing left for you is the wrath, the fierce anger of God because of your rebellion and your sin. —Paul Washer

May 19

There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God. —David Livingstone

May 20

When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice? —Amy Carmichael

May 21

Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God. —Samuel Chadwick

May 22

The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character. —J. I. Packer

May 23

I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude. —Chuck Smith

May 24

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. —Dietrich Bonhoeffer

May 25

The devil resists serious, focused prayer because he's defeated by it. And so the devil will try to attack our concentration in prayer; he will try to confuse or contradict the content of our prayers; he will do his best to distract and/or divert us in prayer so that we're crippled by inconsistency. —Anne Graham Lotz

May 26

There are so many people who want to get together to have a great prayer meeting or other great gatherings. Friend, have you ever tried being alone? That is where God will meet with you. Take the Word of God and go off alone with Him. It will do you a lot of good. —J. Vernon McGee

May 27

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ. —Billy Sunday

May 28

The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it. —Paul Washer

May 29

Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere! —David Livingstone

May 30

We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them. —Amy Carmichael

May 31

Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit. —Samuel Chadwick

Marj Lancaster