Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
Nobody stood by Jesus. Maybe nobody will stand by you. It's a lonely life, but it's a glorious life.
Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.
In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.
No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.
Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom.
If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.
I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.
Many of the self-described "political refugees" who come here make stopovers in other countries on their way to the U. S. , in places where they would be free to have as many children as they want. But they choose to continue on to the U. S. Why? Because it is more economically attractive.
I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.
When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.