R. A. Torrey Quotes
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The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man.
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If we think of the Holy Spirit only as an impersonal power or influence, then our thought will constantly be, how can I get hold of and use the Holy Spirit; but if we think of Him in the biblical way as a divine Person, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely tender, then our thought will constantly be, 'How can the Holy Spirit get hold of and use me?'
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Tell me your doctrine of the Fall and I will tell you the state of your theology.
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The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.
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We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.
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We are not saved by denying self, or taking up our cross, or doing anything else, we are saved by simply believing in Jesus.
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I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from any hope of conversion, I prayed on.
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Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.
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If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him.
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The truly wise man is he who believes the Bible against the opinions of any man. If the Bible says one thing, and any body of men says another, the wise man will decide, "This book is the Word of him who cannot lie".
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If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; but if you make but a little of Christ, Christ will make but a little of you.