Barry Black > Barry's Quotes

“Be a Bible man, go so far as the Bible, but not an inch beyond it. Though Calvin should beckon you, and you esteem him, or Wesley should beckon, and you esteem him, keep to the Scripture, only to the Scripture! from the Sermon: Infallibility—Where To Find It and How To Use It”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.”
― Oswald Chambers

“No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity.”
― H.A. Ironside

“We will have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only a few short hours to win them.”
― Amy Carmichael

“I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.”
― George Müller

“You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.”
― S.D. Gordon, Quiet Talks on Prayer

“Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.”
― George Müller

“The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.”
― Charles C. Ryrie

“It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
― Horace Greeley

“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated”
― C. S. Lewis

“Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.”
― D.L. Moody

“We are told that the Bible must be put in such simple terms of language that anybody taking it up and reading it is going to understand it right away. My friends, this is sheer nonsense. What we must do is educate the masses of the people up to the Bible not bring the Bible down to their level. One of the greatest troubles today is that everything is being brought down to the same level; everything is cheapened. The common man is made the standard of authority; he decides everything, and everything has to be brought down to him…we need to do is not to replace it...we need to reach and train people up to the standard and the language, the dignity and glory of the old Authorized Version.”
― Dr. D. Martin Lloyd-Jones

“So that, if on the one side we shall be traduced by Popish persons at home or abroad, who therefore will maligne us, because we are poore Instruments to make GODS holy Trueth to be yet more and more knowen unto the people, whom they desire still to keepe in ignorance and darknesse”
― The Translators of the Authorized Version

“No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.”
― A.W. Pink

“A knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without the Bible.”
― William Lyon Phelps

“Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.”
― Charles Haddon Sprugeon

“[N]early all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Most people only want to admit free will in relation to the good that is in them or the good that happens to them, but always want to blame the evil on someone or something else.”
― Dr. Philip A. Captain

“God is looking for people through whom He can do the impossible—what a pity that we plan only the things we can do by ourselves. —A.W. TOZER”
― R. Mark Dillon, Giving and Getting in the Kingdom: A Field Guide

“These children, over tenfold the number of Americans lost in our nation’s wars, will never laugh, never sing, never experience the joy of human love; nor will they strive to heal the sick, or feed the poor, or make peace among the nations. Abortion has denied them the first and most basic of human rights, and we are infinitely poorer for their loss.”
― President Ronald Reagan

“I defy the pope, and all his laws;" and added, "If God spared him life, ere many years he would cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scripture than he did.”
― John Foxe, Foxe's Book of Martyrs

“Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”
― George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One

“The secret of true obedience is a close and unmistakable relationship with God.”
― Andrew Murray

“The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Radical Cross: Living the Passion of Christ

“We judge things by their present appearances, but the Lord sees them in their consequences.”
― John Newton, Letters of John Newton

“Nothing of Eternal Value is ever accomplished apart from prayer.”
― Jerry Falwell

“None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon