Top 100 Torrey Quotes
#1. For decades now, [Fuller] Torrey has been warning America what would happen if the dangerously mentally ill were deinstitutionalized, and it's all come true. Today, the only place we can put mental patients is on MSNBC.
Ann Coulter
#2. Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No one knew better than he the history of the plants and animals of South Florida or conveyed it with more humor and enthusiasm.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
#3. I love you, Torrey Delaney. You don't have to say it back to me, but I love you. I didn't believe life was worth living until I met you. I'm so, so happy I was wrong.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#4. "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
#6. We are not saved by denying self, or taking up our cross, or doing anything else, we are saved by simply believing in Jesus.
R.A. Torrey
#7. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#8. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#9. Fernanda Andrade and Daphne Zuniga are two beautiful, inspiring women I met and became very close with while living in L.A. Daphne's father is from Central America, and Fernanda is originally from Brazil.
Torrey DeVitto
#10. If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.
R.A. Torrey
#11. Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.
William Torrey Harris
#12. Obviously I ask my family and loved ones for advice here and there, but I kind of have a rule with the people I love that surround me - close family and close friends - that unless I ask for it, I don't really want advice thrown out.
Torrey DeVitto
#13. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#14. We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.
Jesse Torrey
#15. Those who truly believe on Jesus Christ are saved from all fear.
R.A. Torrey
#16. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#18. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#19. Football is one of those games that definitely relates to life in a lot of ways. Everything can be going good, and just like that, you have a turnover. Things are going south, you're going the opposite direction. How are you going to recover from it? That's the beauty in this game.
Torrey Smith
#20. Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever.
Jesse Torrey
#21. Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all pray.
R.A. Torrey
#22. I'm just a receiver. I don't want to be labeled as a deep-threat guy, which is always going to happen because I'm always going to be able to run past people until I'm slow. I watch some guys who are very good at being deep threats, but it's like people don't respect them doing anything else.
Torrey Smith
#23. To win men to acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord is the only reason Christians are left in this world.
R.A. Torrey
#25. I have so much respect for people in the service. The mental strength it takes to do what they do is unbelievable.
Torrey DeVitto
#26. Tell me your doctrine of the Fall and I will tell you the state of your theology.
R.A. Torrey
#27. Every true revival ... has had its earthly origin in prayer.
R.A. Torrey
#28. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#29. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#30. There were a lot of kids from Puerto Rico at my high school in Florida; people always assumed I was Puerto Rican. Even now in California, I get talked to on the street in Spanish constantly!
Torrey DeVitto
#31. God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.
R.A. Torrey
#32. The one who is truly born again will love the Word of God.
R.A. Torrey
#33. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#34. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#35. The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man.
R.A. Torrey
#36. I have sat in with the Burbank Philharmonic and the Topanga Orchestra when they need someone if someone gets sick or something.
Torrey DeVitto
#37. Worship is adoring contemplation of God.
R.A. Torrey
#38. 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".
R.A. Torrey
#39. I started playing violin when I was six, so I thought I could be a professional. It wasn't until I was 15 when I got into acting classes and realized this was what I wanted to do.
Torrey DeVitto
#40. It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.
R.A. Torrey
#41. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#42. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#43. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#44. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#45. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#46. If I am to have faith when I pray, I must find some promise in the Word of God to rest my faith on
R.A. Torrey
#47. I've been playing football forever, and I've been making plays forever.
Torrey Smith
#48. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#49. Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.
R.A. Torrey
#50. Prayer is the key that unlocks all the storehouses of God's ... grace and power.
R.A. Torrey
#51. I'm just working hard because I know that's the way you can get things done. That's how I've been able to be successful.
Torrey Smith
#52. If you wish to study men you must not neglect to mix with the society of children.
Jesse Torrey
#53. I feel like - and maybe you're going to think I'm crazy for saying this - 'Vampire Diaries' has crazy fans, 'Pretty Little Liars' has crazy fans, but I swear to you, I have never met crazier fans than 'One Tree Hill's.
Torrey DeVitto
#54. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#55. My family may be dysfunctional, but I think it's pretty functional in its dysfunction.
Amanda Torrey
#56. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#57. If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.
R.A. Torrey
#58. Before anyone learns my last name, they always assume I have some type of Latin background in me somewhere. I love it! I think the Latin culture is sexy. It's one of my goals to learn to speak Spanish one day; then I will really be able to fool people!
Torrey DeVitto
#59. There are at least four distinct lines of proof in the Bible that the Holy Spirit is a person.
R.A. Torrey
#60. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#61. I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.
Torrey Smith
#62. The one who expects God to do as he asks Him must on his part do whatever God bids him.
R.A. Torrey
#63. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#66. I got followed by the paparazzi because they thought I was Shannyn Sossamon.
Torrey DeVitto
#67. I have values I believe in and certain things I stand for.
Torrey Smith
#68. There's a lot more people out there than you would think who cannot differentiate between TV and reality. I do think there's a lot of people out there who think I'm a nasty human being.
Torrey DeVitto
#69. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#70. Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.
R.A. Torrey
#71. The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.
R.A. Torrey
#72. Education is the most important thing you can have.
Torrey Smith
#73. Education is the preparation of the individual for reciprocal union with society; the preparation of the individual so that he can help his fellow-men and in return receive and appreciate their help.
William Torrey Harris
#74. Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.
William Torrey Harris
#75. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#76. With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.
Torrey Smith
#77. Some people, they feel like they have to change and try to go out and do this or do things for the cameras. I'm myself at all times, whether I'm at a grocery store or I'm speaking to a school. I want to be as levelheaded and down to earth as possible, because that's who I am.
Torrey Smith
#78. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#79. 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 ...
R.A. Torrey
#80. Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.
William Torrey Harris
#81. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#82. I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away!
Torrey DeVitto
#83. I was worried for a while that it was some sort of reflection of me that all I seemed to be getting were these characters that were a tad bit loony. But I love it. Those are the most fun characters to play!
Torrey DeVitto
#84. I'm a human just like anyone else. We all have our problems that we deal with on and off the field. I'm thankful to have a beautiful wife and child that can help ease those problems when you come home.
Torrey Smith
#85. I. All the distinctive characteristics of personality are ascribed to the Holy Spirit in the Bible.
R.A. Torrey
#86. Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.
R.A. Torrey
#87. Be thankful for your loved ones and tell them you love them.
Torrey Smith
#88. I just talk just to talk. I like to see what other people think. There's some things somebody tweets me every day where I'm like, 'Wow, I never thought of this issue that way.' It starts great conversation with people who I would never get a chance to actually communicate with.
Torrey Smith
#89. I don't want to be 50 years old and not know what's going on with my kids and my grandkids.
Torrey Smith
#90. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#91. I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.
R.A. Torrey
#92. Faith gets the most; love works the most; but humility keeps the most.
R.A. Torrey
#94. The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.
R.A. Torrey
#95. Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.
R.A. Torrey
#96. 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.
R.A. Torrey
#97. I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.
Torrey Smith
#98. I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.
Torrey DeVitto
#99. Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.
R.A. Torrey
#100. 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.
R.A. Torrey
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