| Quotation 1 : | LONGINGS
"The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer." |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 2 : | LONGINGS
"Sin comes when we take a perfectly natural desire or longing or ambition and try desperately to fulfill it without God. Not only is it sin, it is a perverse distortion of the image of the Creator in us. All these good things, and all our security, are rig" |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 3 : | LONGINGS
"It was when I was happiest that I longed most. The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing to find the place where all the beauty came from." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 4 : | LONGINGS
"In spiritual things, when God has raised a desire, He always gratifies it; hence the longing is prophetic of the blessing. In no case is the desire of the living thing excited to produce distress, but in order that it may seek and find satisfaction." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 5 : | LONGINGS
"Holiness, has become relative in our day, allowing us to lower the bar and pick and choose which commandments we will obey...many Christians have a spiritual longing and desire to really change but they don't know how." |
| Chip Ingram |
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| Quotation 6 : | LONGINGS
"Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him." |
| David Brainerd |
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| Quotation 7 : | LONGINGS
"Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify that love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it is likely that there are an" |
| Frederick W. Robertson |
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| Quotation 8 : | LONGINGS
"A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never." |
| Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Quotation 9 : | LONGINGS
"Before I translated the New Testament out of the Greek, all longed after it; when it was done, their longing lasted scarce four weeks. Then they desired the books of Moses; when I had translated these, they had enough thereof in a short time. After that," |
| Martin Luther |
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| Quotation 10 : | LONGINGS
"God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon it or fearful of leaving it (dying), as well as to stir in our hearts a longing and yearning and holy anticipation for what is yet" |
| Sam Storms |
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| Quotation 11 : | LONGINGS
"The bread and wine exist not simply to stir cognitive remembrance but to light a fire of unquenchable longing for the Savior whose body and blood they symbolize. These visible signs are also a means of grace by which the Spirit excites and intensifies our" |
| Sam Storms |
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| Quotation 12 : | LONGINGS
"Hunger and longing for Christ hath brought on such a necessity of enjoying Christ that I will not, I dow not want him; for I cannot master nor command Christ's love." |
| Samuel Rutherford |
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| Quotation 13 : | LONGINGS
"There are no magic formulas for revival. We cannot command it. We may await it with longing, and we are bound to express our longing in prayer." |
| Tom Wells |
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| Quotation 14 : | LONGINGS
"If he but casts one longing glance it is sufficient to disclose to us that he does not truly recognize where the world stands in relation to the cross. Only after one is actually willing to offer his soul life to death will he be fit to follow the "Sermon" |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 15 : | LONGINGS
"Prayers prayed in the Spirit never die until they accomplish God's intended purpose. His answer may not be what we expected, or when we expected it, but God often provides much more abundantly than we could think or ask. He interprets our intent and eithe" |
| Wesley L. Duewel |
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| Quotation 16 : | LONGINGS
"So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man." |
| William Barclay |
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| Quotation 17 : | LONGINGS
"Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition--a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 18 : | LONGINGS
"Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying." |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 19 : | SEPARATION
"Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government." |
| Judge Roy Moore |
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| Quotation 20 : | SEPARATION
"Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 21 : | SEPARATION
"Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God." |
| William Law |
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| Quotation 22 : | SEPARATION
"I do not want the walls of separation between different orders of Christians to be destroyed, but only lowered, that we may shake hands a little easier over them." |
| Rowland Hill |
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| Quotation 23 : | SEPARATION
"Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide saints from one another he delights in. He attaches far more importance to godly intercourse than we do. Since union is strength, he does his bes" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 24 : | SEPARATION
"When all smiles upon you, you may think there is no need to talk of such a thing as separation from the love of Christ; but if persecution were to come, and you were to be led forth to the fire, you would feel that that love of Christ is a VERY PRECIOUS t" |
| G.V. Wigram |
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| Quotation 25 : | SEPARATION
"Holiness consists of three things - separation from sin, dedication to God, transformation into Christ's image. It is in vain that we talk about the last, unless we know something experimentally about the first." |
| James H. Aughey |
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| Quotation 26 : | SEPARATION
"No church is healthy enough to resist contamination from persistent sin in its midst, any more than the healthiest and most nutritious bushel of apples can withstand contamination from even a single bad one. The only solution in both cases is separation." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 27 : | SEPARATION
"The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power." |
| Judge Roy Moore |
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| Quotation 28 : | SEPARATION
"Many Christians have been duped into accepting a false idea: that there is a "neutral" position they can take in regard to social issues. Some Christians even accept the myth that the U.S. Constitution declares that there should be a separation of church" |
| Ken Ham |
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| Quotation 29 : | SEPARATION
"The creature which can only be by the power of God, cannot exist without Him, and the root of its being, that nothing can come between or cause the slightest separation." |
| Madame Guyon |
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| Quotation 30 : | SEPARATION
"Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares." |
| William Law |
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