If the Preacher Is Angry, He Soon Puts the Congregation Under Bondage

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"If the preacher is angry, he soon puts the congregation under bondage." - Charles Stanley

"It's a sin to bore people with the word of God." - Howard Hendricks

Webster's Dictionary, as part of its definition for the word, "preach" has this - "to exhort in an officious or a tiresome manner." 

Chamber’s Dictionary uses these words in its definition of “preach” - “to speak in an offensive, tedious or obtrusive manner.”.

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas Edison

“More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.” – Tennyson

“As we stand and gaze with our eyes fixed upon the far shore, a simple figure rises from the flood and straightway fills the whole horizon of history. There is the Savior!” - Arnold Toynbee

“No matter how many new translations of the Bible come out, the people still sin in the same old way.” - anonymous

“What a man is in his prayer life is what he is, no more, no less.” - Vance Havner

“The sun has never risen upon China without finding me at prayer.” –Hudson Taylor

“If we have faith we have everything, whoever does not have faith has nothing.” - Martin Luther

“I spent 20 years trying to come to terms with my doubts. Then one day it dawned on me that I had better come to terms with my faith.” - David Roberts

“The Bible is no mere book, but a living creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.” - Napoleon

The worst thing a believer can do is stifle or quench the Holy Spirit. This is done by rushing past the warnings of conscience, refusing to submit to Scripture, hardening your heart to conviction, refusing the advice of mature believers, or ignoring an obvious alarm of God.” - John D. Jess (radio teacher and author)

1 He had come to the work overwhelmed with a sense of the greatness of the task and conscious of his own inadequacy. Yet he had attempted it and with this tremendous result. He was somewhat bewildered by it all, but he simply went on! - Dallimore on George Whitfield

“I like my tea as I like my religion - Hot, very Hot!” -William Booth (Founder of the Salvation Army)

“His preachers were taught to face mobs; rise at 4 a.m.; preach at 5 a.m.; scatter tracts…to live by rule…and die without fear.” -on John Wesley’s men

“Someday, someone is going to read it for the first time, believe it and act upon it.” -Leonard Ravenhill, on the Bible

“On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.” -C.S. Lewis

He who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts men. - anonymous

The longer I live the larger allowances I make for human weakness. – John Wesley

“Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God. I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen, such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth.” - John Wesley

“Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never – in nothing great or small, large or petty.” -Winston Churchill

“I can’t abide cowardice.” - C.T. Studd

“ ‘She was religious, but without enthusiasm.’ Such is the tombstone record of this past lady of quality. From all such religion, ‘Dear Lord,’ deliver us! “Our God is a consuming fire!” We must be blazing furnaces would we be God-like.” - C.T. Studd

“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly, until he has hurt him deeply.” - Samuel Rutherford

“God give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst.” - George Whitefield

“Leisure and I have taken leave of one another. I purpose to be busy as long as I live.” - John Wesley

2 “Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.” - John Wesley

“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is a time to dare and endure.” - Winston Churchill

“Death is the ultimate statistic, one out of one will die.” -Bernard Shaw

“Here, let me burn out for God.” -Henry Martyr, missionary to India, as he knelt on the sands of the beach upon his arrival there.

“In this world a man is either anvil or hammer.” -Longfellow

“All my life I have wanted to lead a lot of men in a desperate battle.” - George Patton

“A man came to D.L. Moody and asked for advice on a problem he had with exaggeration. Moody’s advice, “Call it lying and quit!”

“It is always easier to suffer in silence, when we know someone is watching.” - anonymous

“I am a historian. I am not a Christian, but I must admit that this penniless preacher from Galilee is irrevocably the center of history.” - H.G. Wells

“If Christ were here now, there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.” -Mark Twain

“Witnessing is taking a good look at the Lord Jesus and then telling others what you have seen.” - Lorne Sanny

In response to what was the greatest single thought that ever occupied his mind Daniel Webster replied, “That one day I will have to give an account of myself to God.” He also said, “Education is useless without the Bible.”

“Courage is the one character quality that guarantees all the rest.” - Winston Churchill

“When God raised Joseph up out of the prison, there was no time to prepare. You are what you are.” - anonymous

3 “It doesn’t matter, really, how great the pressure is,” he used to say; “It only matters where the pressure lies. See that it never comes between you and the Lord- then, the greater the pressure, the more it presses you to His breast.” -Hudson Taylor

“It was not cheap! God gave His only Son. He did not have others.” - anonymous

“Oh, my soul, be prepared to face Him who knows how to ask questions!” -T.S. Elliot

“A praying, holy man is an awful weapon in the hands of God.” -Robert Murray McCheyne

“Billy just got to the point where he decided that he wasn’t going to answer his critics.” - Olan Hendricks on Billy Graham

“Every individual believer is precious in the sight of the Lord; a shepherd would not lose one sheep, nor a jeweler one diamond, nor a mother one child,…nor will the Lord lose one of His people.” -Charles Spurgeon

“We need hope for living, far more than for dying. Dying is easy work, compared to living. Dying is a moment’s transition; living, a transaction of years. It is the length of the rope that puts the sag in it. Hope tightens the words and tunes up the heartstrings.” - anonymous

“Great men have wills, average men only wishes.” -anonymous

“The entire character of a man’s whole life depends on whether he answers yes or no to the historic fact of the resurrection.” -John Large

“Our problems as a nation have arisen as a result of a lack of persistence.” - Harvard Professor

Wesley only had one message on money. 1. Gain as much as you can. 2. Save as much as you can. 3. Give as much as you can.

“Live so as to be missed when you are gone.” -Robert Murray McCheyne

If all the illustrious men of history were gathered together and Shakespeare should enter their presence, they would rise to do him honor; but if Jesus Christ should come in, they would fall down and worship Him.” -Decision magazine

“When John Wesley died he left behind a few books, 20 pounds and the Methodist church.” - from Strangely Warmed

4 “I would like to hang all my disciples over hell for just 5 minutes.” -John Wesley

“I often think that God must have been looking for someone weak enough and small enough for Him to use, and He found me.” -John Wesley

“We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and the emptiness, sometimes a voice answers out of the darkness. But it is the voice of one drowning, and in a moment the silence returns. The world seems to me quite dreadful- the unhappiness of many people is very great, and I often wonder how they endure it. To know people is to know their tragedy. . . My philosophy proved a washout to me, a blind alley, ninety years long.” - Bertrand Russel, Why I am not a Christian

“Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.” - Herb Caen, columnist

“I know a man who knows how to mortify the flesh. I do believe he will do great things for God.” - John Wesley on George Whitfield

“Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess, most of the time. And our Christianity must be lived in the midst of that mess.” - Charles Colson

“The Saviour is not looking for men and women who will give their spare evenings to Him- or their weekends- or their years of retirement. Rather He seeks those who will give Him first place in their lives.” - William McDonald

“From the very beginning of his career, says the evangelist, ‘I was frightened— I still am—that I would do something to dishonor the Lord.’ So far, so good.” - Time magazine on Billy Graham

“Impaled upon internal contradictions, Americans are rich and full of everything but meaning, powerful but without purpose.” - Look magazine

“America is laughing her way to Hell.” - A.W. Tozer

“Historians will be amazed at how this generation expressed its freedom in terms of decadence and corruption.” - Malcolm Muggeridge

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable. -George Washington

5 “It is in our hearts that the evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.” - Bertrand Russell

“Since the 1950s, the average America now owns and consumes twice as much as we used to.” -Rocky Mountain News

“Remember Phillip, someday you will die.” Every morning, his servant spoke these words to him. The servant’s master was Phillip of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great.

“The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity, are excellent battlefields for the Devil to work with.” -C.S. Lewis

“Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone, Dare to have a purpose firm, Dare to make it known.”

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we purpose, to deceive.” - Shakespeare

“The grass isn’t greener on the other side of the fence, the grass isn’t greener on your side of the fence. The grass is greener where you water it!” -Rick Warren

“50 years have passed since I was made king. Riches, honors, pleasures, I have enjoyed it all. In this long time of seeming happiness I have numbered the days on which I have been happy- 14.” - Caliph Rahman III

The one chief principle of Hell is that… “You are on your own.” - anonymous

“There is one thing that mars all the pleasure of my life. I am afraid the Bible is true. If I could only know for certain that death is just a sleep, I should be happy. But here is what pierces my soul- if the Bible is true, I am lost forever.” -modern day atheist at his death

A college student pinned a cut-out letter “K,” big and bold onto his graduation gown. When asked what does the “K” stand for, he answered, “Confused.” “But the word confused doesn’t start with K,” they replied. He answered, “You don’t know how confused I am.”

“If you are ever going to do anything for Christ and His kingdom, do it now.” - Bill Bright