R A Torrey Quotes

#1. "The only reason some of us are not exiled or thrown into prison is simply because we do not preach as fervently and as sternly as did Paul, John, Peter R.A. Torrey and others. This modern "santa claus" religion that is sweeping country today is not the religion Jesus taught and John practiced."

Oliver B. Greene

#2. Ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are merely playing at Bible study; and therefore ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are mere weaklings, when they might be giants, both in their Christian life and in their service.

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#3. Prayer is the key that unlocks all the storehouses of God's ... grace and power.

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#4. The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary.

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#5. When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.

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#6. If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.

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#7. There are at least four distinct lines of proof in the Bible that the Holy Spirit is a person.

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#8. There are two ways of reaching the people. One way is to invite them to come to you, the other way is to go to them.

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#9. The one who expects God to do as he asks Him must on his part do whatever God bids him.

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#10. What are the distinctive characteristics, or marks, of personality? Knowledge, feeling or emotion, and will. Any entity that thinks and feels and wills is a person.

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#11. 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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#12. Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.

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#13. The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.

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#14. The best book in the
world to put into the hands of one who desires to know about Jesus and
to be saved is the gospel of John.

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#15. is the work of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the living God , to give us to know a God who lives and acts and speaks to-day, a God who is ready to come as near to us as He came to Abraham, to Moses or to Isaiah, or to the Apostles or to Jesus Himself.

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#16. The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God ...

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#17. Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.

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#18. I. All the distinctive characteristics of personality are ascribed to the Holy Spirit in the Bible.

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#19. Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.

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#20. If we are to have real faith, we must study the Word of God and discover what is promised. Then, we must simply believe the promises of God. Trying to believe something that you want to believe is not faith. Believing what God says in His Word is faith.

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#21. I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.

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#22. Faith gets the most; love works the most; but humility keeps the most.

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#23. The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.

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#24. Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.

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#25. Do not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God, and only the Bible is the Word of God.

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#26. Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.

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#27. When the perceptive child of God stops to weigh the meaning of these words, then notes the connection in which they are found, he or she is driven to say, I must pray, pray, pray. I must put all my energy and heart into prayer. Whatever else I do, I must pray.

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#28. The life of entire surrender is a joyous life all along the way.

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#29. If loving God with all our heart and soul and might is the greatest commandment, then it follows that not loving Him that way is the greatest sin.

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#30. Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.

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#31. God has not changed; and His ear is just as quick to hear the voice of real prayer, and His hand is just as long and strong to save; as it ever was.

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#32. God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.

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#33. 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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#34. All that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of prayer. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do everything, prayer is omnipotent.

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#35. We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work, is not to get persons to join the church or to give up their bad habits or to do anything else than this, to accept Jesus Christ, as their Saviour.

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#36. If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.

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#37. To have as one's ever-present friend, and to be conscious that one has as his ever-present friend, the Holy Spirit and to surrender one's life in all it's departments entirely to His control - this is true Christian living.

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#38. Those who truly believe on Jesus Christ are saved from all fear.

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#39. I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.

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#40. Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.

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#41. Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all pray.

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#42. To win men to acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord is the only reason Christians are left in this world.

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#43. Tell me your doctrine of the Fall and I will tell you the state of your theology.

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#44. Every true revival ... has had its earthly origin in prayer.

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#45. We must know the power of the Blood if we are to know the power of God. Our knowing experimentally the power of the Word, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the power of prayer is dependent upon our knowing the power of the Blood of Christ.

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#46. If you and I are to be used in our sphere as D.L. Moody was used in his, we must put all that we have and all that we are in the hands of God, for Him to use as He will.

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#47. Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.

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#48. The one who is truly born again will love the Word of God.

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#49. Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they enjoy. In this way they get no knowledge of the Bible as a whole. They miss altogether many of the most important phases of Bible truth.

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#50. 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.

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#51. The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man.

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#52. Worship is adoring contemplation of God.

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#53. 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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#54. It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.

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#55. There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.

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#56. We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

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#57. If the Holy Spirit is a person, and a Divine Person, and we do not know Him as such, then we are robbing a Divine Being of the worship and the faith and the love and the surrender to Himself which are His due.

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#58. Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit himself. A frequent source of error and fanaticism about the work of the Holy Spirit is the attempt to study and understand His work without, first of all, coming to know Him as a person.

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#59. Just as one gets the firstfruits of spiritual salvation in the life that now is, so we get the firstfruits of our physical salvation in the life that now is.

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#60. If I am to have faith when I pray, I must find some promise in the Word of God to rest my faith on

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