Matthew > Matthew's Quotes

“Feelings come and feelings go,
And feelings are deceiving;
My warrant is the Word of God--
Naught else is worth believing.

Though all my heart should feel condemned
For want of some sweet token,
There is One greater than my heart
Whose Word cannot be broken.

I'll trust in God's unchanging Word
Till soul and body sever,
For, though all things shall pass away,
HIS WORD SHALL STAND FOREVER!”
― Martin Luther

“Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
― Martin Luther

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say”
― Martin Luther

“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.”
― Martin Luther

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right....”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.”
― Martin Luther

“It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.”
― Martin Luther

“A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.”
― Martin Luther, On Christian Liberty

“Peace if possible. Truth at all costs.”
― Martin Luther

“Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?”
― Francis Chan, Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit

“Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!”
― John Wesley

“What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.”
― John Wesley

“Catch on fire and others will love to come watch you burn.”
― John Wesley

“We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.”
― John Wesley

“Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth.”
― John Wesley

“Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.”
― John Wesley

“My best days are Monday through Friday, and Saturday and Sunday."
"Ian," Wesley noted, "that covers the whole week."
Ian nods his head. "Pretty much.”
― Carroll Bryant, Children of the Flower Power

“I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn.”
― John Wesley

“You have one business on earth – to save souls.”
― John Wesley

“The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.”
― Andrew Murray

“Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness

“Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness

“Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness

“How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.”
― Andrew Murray

“As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness

“Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to the original.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness

“Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness

“Every providence is God’s will; whatever happens, meet God in it in humble worship. Every precept is God’s will; meet God in it with loving obedience. Every promise is God’s will; meet God in it with full trust. A life in the will of God is rest and strength and blessing. [. . .]

The will of God must first live in us, if it is to be done by us.”
― Andrew Murray, Holy in Christ: A devotional look at your life

“Stand by; for I am holier than you!" What a parody on holiness! Jesus the Holy One is the humble One: the holiest will ever be the humblest. There is none holy but God: we have as much of holiness as we have of God.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness

“True happiness is always self-forgetful: it loses itself in the object of its joy. As the joy of the Holy Ghost fills us, and we rejoice in God the Holy One, through our Lord Jesus Christ. [. . .]

Love and joy ever keep company. Love, denying and forgetting itself for the brethren and the lost, living in them, finds the joy of God. ‘The kingdom of God is joy in the Holy Ghost.”
― Andrew Murray, Holy in Christ: A devotional look at your life