R. A. Torrey Quotes
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Worship is adoring contemplation of God.
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Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.
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I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.
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The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary.
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Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.
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Prayer is the key that unlocks all the storehouses of God's. . .grace and power.
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Do not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God, and only the Bible is the Word of God.
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It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.
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God has not changed; and His ear is just as quick to hear the voice of real prayer, and His hand is just as long and strong to save; as it ever was.
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The life of entire surrender is a joyous life all along the way.
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All that God is, and all that God has, are at the disposal of player. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent.
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Cultivate prompt, exact, unquestioning, joyous obedience to every command that it is evident from its context applies to you. Be on the lookout for new orders from your King. Blessing lies in the direction of obedience to them. God's commands are but signboards that mark the road to present success and blessedness and to eternal glory.
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Prayer can do anything that God can do.
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Every true revival from that day to this has had its earthly origin in prayer.
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Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.
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Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all pray.
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If you and I are to be used in our sphere as D.L. Moody was used in his, we must put all that we have and all that we are in the hands of God, for Him to use as He will.
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I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.
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The one who is truly born again will love the Word of God.
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We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.
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If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.
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When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.
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Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.
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To have as one's ever-present friend, and to be conscious that one has as his ever-present friend, the Holy Spirit and to surrender one's life in all it's departments entirely to His control - this is true Christian living.