S.D. Gordon Quotes

#1. He that willeth to do shall know what he ought to do. He that doeth the thing he does know will know more. And that more done will open the door yet wider into all the fragrance of a strongly obedient life, and into a clear and clearing understanding of the Lord Jesus Himself.

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#2. Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.

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#3. Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.

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#4. Yet we may constantly do more in what we are than in what we do. We may serve better in the lives we live than in the best service we ever give. The memory of that should bring rest to your spirit when a bit tired, and may be disheartened because tired.

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#5. The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.

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#6. Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.

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#7. It is good to know; it is better to do; it is best to be. To be pure and strong, to be honest and earnest, to be kindly and thoughtful, and in all to be true, ...

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#8. Our prayer is God's opportunity to get into the world that would shut Him out.

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#9. Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces.

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#10. Shoes divide men into three classes. Some men wear their father's shoes. They make no decisions of their own. Some are unthinkingly shod by the crowd. The strong man is his own cobbler. He insists on making his own choices. He walks in his own shoes.

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#11. You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

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#12. If we lose the spirit of 'go,' we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead church. It will die of heart failure.

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#13. In the partnership of a pure, holy purpose it (money)seems almost omnipotent. But when it is allowed to grip both lines and whip, it drives a man at such a pace as to use up all his strength, and leave him utterly winded for anything else.

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#14. No man's hand has ever yet reached up to take as much as the Pierced Hand is reaching down to give.

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#15. The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.

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#16. Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.

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#17. Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.

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#18. Faith is blind ... to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.

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#19. The way from God to a human heart is through a human heart.

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#20. It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.

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#21. Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.

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#22. Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

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#23. One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.

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#24. Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.

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#25. If there are two persons praying, there are three. If three meet to pray, there are four praying. There is always one more than you can see.

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#26. God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.

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