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This quote is widely attributed online, but our search did not find it verbatim in the published works we checked. It may be a sermon excerpt, compilation paraphrase, or misattribution. If you can locate a primary source…
Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.— Martin LutherView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote is widely attributed online, but our search did not find it verbatim in the published works we checked. It may be a sermon excerpt, compilation paraphrase, or misattribution. If you can locate a primary source…
While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as th…— William BoothView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote is widely attributed online, but our search did not find it verbatim in the published works we checked. It may be a sermon excerpt, compilation paraphrase, or misattribution. If you can locate a primary source…
I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without re…— William BoothView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote is widely attributed online, but our search did not find it verbatim in the published works we checked. It may be a sermon excerpt, compilation paraphrase, or misattribution. If you can locate a primary source…
Let the business of the world take care of itself. My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up o…— William BoothView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote is widely attributed online, but our search did not find it verbatim in the published works we checked. It may be a sermon excerpt, compilation paraphrase, or misattribution. If you can locate a primary source…
Go for souls and go for the worst.— William BoothView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstillbot·
I have not found this wording in The Root of the Righteous, or in any Tozer book or sermon transcript I can check. It circulates widely with no locator. Moody’s note matches that. Tozer did write in that vein (hollow, un…
Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.— A.W. TozerView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
Chesterton’s “good shot / not necessarily a good man” line is well known, but this pass only found secondary retellings. If you can cite the essay, Illustrated London News column, or book page, please add a source propos…
The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not ne…— G.K. ChestertonView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This line is widely attributed to E.M. Bounds (often Purpose in Prayer), but we have not verified it verbatim in the public-domain text. If you can locate the chapter, please add a source proposal — contributions welcome…
Pray for all men. We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to…— E.M. BoundsView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This is third-person summary text ('Edward M. Bounds stresses…'), not a direct quote from a primary Bounds work. If you can identify the underlying passage, please add a source proposal!
Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause i…— E.M. BoundsView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
The chase anecdote may appear in Bounds, but this import uses a marketing subtitle and we have not verified the full anecdote verbatim in the primary text. If you can match chapter and page, please add a source proposal!
A dear friend of mine who was quite a lover of the chase, told me the following story: ' Rising early one morning,'he said, ' I heard the baying of a score of d…— A.C. DixonView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
The stored title is a modern complete-works marketing label, not a primary Bounds book/chapter. If you can identify which Bounds work and chapter this “creator and preserver / superintendence” paragraph is from, please a…
Once we admit that God is the creator and preserver of all men, and concede that he is wise and intelligent, we are logically driven to the conclusion that Almi…— E.M. BoundsView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This passage is Spurgeon (“asking is the rule of the kingdom”), often quoted by E.M. Bounds—not Bounds’s own words. We corrected the author field, but still need the original Spurgeon sermon title/volume. If you have the…
Whether we like it or not,'said Mr. Spurgeon, 'asking is the rule of the kingdom.' ' Ask, and ye shall receive.' It is a rule that never will be altered in anyb…— Charles H. SpurgeonView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This looks like a Bounds journal entry (Washington, Ga., 1 July 1912) rather than a book chapter. If you can confirm the first published source, please add a source proposal — contributions welcome!
Washington, Ga, July 1, 1912: Pray more and more; keep at the four a.m. hour. God will be for it; the devil against it. Press on, you can't pray too much, you m…— E.M. BoundsView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This poem about unbelief in the devil is filed under Bounds' Satan but we have not found it in the 1922 primary text (Internet Archive scan). It may be a quoted poem by another author. If you know the original poet or pu…
Men don't believe in a devil now, As their fathers used to do; They've forced the door of the broadest creed To let his majesty through; There isn't a print of …— Alfred J. HoughView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
These lines appear in E.M. Bounds’s Power Through Prayer as a quotation from Robert Murray McCheyne, not as Bounds’s own words. If you can confirm the McCheyne primary locator (or another attribution), please add a sourc…
It behooves us always to pray and not faint. Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this.— Robert Murray M'CheyneView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This is labeled Necessity of Prayer ch. I, but the exact “foundation stone” wording was not found in the CCEL text of that chapter. It may be a paraphrase or another edition. If you can match a primary page, please add a…
Faith is the first, the foundation stone. Faith builds on Jesus Christ. Here faith is the foundation on which the whole spiritual building is reared. A foundati…— E.M. BoundsView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This line follows Bounds' famous 'machinery' passage in Power Through Prayer, but the wording here does not match the Gutenberg/CCEL primary text we checked—it looks like a modern paraphrase. If you can match it to an ex…
What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use—men of prayer…— Robert Murray M'CheyneView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This text reads like a biographical sketch about St. John Chrysostom (written in the third person), not words from Chrysostom himself. It may belong to a preface or life of Chrysostom by another author. If you can identi…
A bright, cheerful, gentle soul; a sensitive heart, a temperament open to emotion and impulse; and all this elevated, refined, transformed by the touch of heave…— John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This Chrysostom quote may be truncated and still lacks a verified primary homily locator. If you can find the complete passage in the patristic corpus, please add a source proposal!
I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish: and the reason is, that it is an affair that requires a great mind.— John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This Chrysostom quote may be truncated and still lacks a verified primary homily locator. If you can find the complete passage in the patristic corpus, please add a source proposal!
While the tongue through shame often pours not forth all its wickedness at once, the heart having no human witness, fearlessly gives birth to whatever evils it …— John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This Chrysostom passage still needs a primary homily or treatise citation (beyond aggregator summaries). If you can match it to an exact NPNF/CCEL location, please add a source proposal!
It is not a head in a charger that the dancers of our time ask, but the souls of them that sit at the feast. For in making them slaves, and leading them to unla…— John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This Spurgeon quote may be incomplete or its primary sermon location is still unclear. If you can locate the full published passage (sermon title, volume, or CCEL link), please add a source proposal!
God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul th…— Charles H. SpurgeonView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This Spurgeon quote may be incomplete or its primary sermon location is still unclear. If you can locate the full published passage (sermon title, volume, or CCEL link), please add a source proposal!
I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.— Charles H. SpurgeonView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Goodreads only. We have not verified it against a primary C.S. Lewis work (book, essay, or letter). If you can locate the exact publication and locator, please add a source proposal!
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.— C.S. LewisView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
Parts of this line resemble Chrysostom’s Homily 17 on Acts (Stephen’s “stiff-necked” speech), but we could not verify the full wording verbatim in the New Advent/NPNF text. If you can point to the exact homily and paragr…
Nothing is more miserable than those people who never failed to attack their own salvation. When there was need to observe the Law, they trampled it under foot.…— John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "The Priest is the common father, as it were, of all the world; it is…
The Priest is the common father, as it were, of all the world; it is proper therefore that he should care for all, even as God, Whom he serves.— John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This “grateful burden / grace us” line is often attributed to Chrysostom, but the only citation we found is a 19th-century quotation anthology (Dictionary of Burning Words), not a primary homily page. If you can locate t…
O most grateful burden, which comforts them that carry it! The burdens of earthly masters gradually wear out the strength of those who carry them; but the burde…— John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "One who knows that he is in need, is very grateful when he obtains a…
One who knows that he is in need, is very grateful when he obtains assistance; but one who has not a sense of his need, will never have a plain and clear sense …— John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "Nothing does so much turn our life upside down, as delay and procras…
Nothing does so much turn our life upside down, as delay and procrastination in the performance of our good works. Nay, this has often caused us to lose all.— John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "Wherever impudent assurance exists, it has but one object in view, t…
Wherever impudent assurance exists, it has but one object in view, to speak at all hazards, it cares not what.— John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "He that practiceth showing mercy to him that needeth, will soon ceas…
He that practiceth showing mercy to him that needeth, will soon cease from covetousness, he who continues in giving to the poor, will soon cease from anger, and…— John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "Do not now, I warn you, seize upon the privilege of the Only Begotte…
Do not now, I warn you, seize upon the privilege of the Only Begotten. For Him is the throne of judgment reserved. Would you however be a judge? You have a cour…— John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "Abstinence is the mother of pleasure as well as health, while replet…
Abstinence is the mother of pleasure as well as health, while repletion is the source and root not only of diseases, but of displeasure. For where there is sati…— John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "A servant, indeed, one will be able perhaps to bind down by fear; na…
A servant, indeed, one will be able perhaps to bind down by fear; nay, not even for him, for he will soon leave you. But the partner of one's life, the mother o…— John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This short Spurgeon line is widely repeated online, but we have not yet found a primary sermon title, date, or Metropolitan Tabernacle volume locator. If you can cite the sermon, please add a source proposal — contributi…
Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.— Charles H. SpurgeonView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This was re-attributed from E.M. Bounds to Thomas Goodwin (Bounds cites Goodwin on Ephesians). We linked Goodwin's Ephesians exposition generally but have not pinned the exact sermon or page for this wording. If you can…
Now the kingdom of power, glory experienced by the Church and Christ is the more endeared and enriched to us by our rescue from the empire of Satan and the worl…— Thomas GoodwinView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This passage was stored under E.M. Bounds but is credited to George Matheson in Bounds' book Satan. We have not yet matched it to a specific Matheson essay or published volume. If you know which work it comes from, pleas…
We are apt to think that Satan is most powerful in crowded thoroughfares. It is a mistake. I believe the temptations of life are always most dangerous in the wi…— George MathesonView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This line was stored under E.M. Bounds but appears to be Richard Newton's words (Bounds cites Newton in Power Through Prayer). We have not yet found the original Newton sermon, letter, or publication with this exact word…
When I can find my heart in frame and liberty for prayer, everything else is comparatively easy.— Richard NewtonView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This prayer passage is widely attributed to St. John Chrysostom in devotional literature (including E.M. Bounds), but we could not find it verbatim in the standard patristic collections we checked. It may be paraphrased,…
The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it had bridled the rage of lions, hushed the anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements,…— John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This Tozer line is widely shared (often “end of themselves / still giving orders”), but we have not yet found a primary book or sermon chapter. If you know the work (e.g. Pursuit of God, Root of the Righteous), please ad…
“The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're st…— A.W. TozerView quote and add a source