February Quotes

February 1

Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all. —Hudson Taylor

February 2

A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith. —Richard Wurmbrand

February 3

You will find it is necessary to let things go, simply for the reason that they are too heavy. —Corrie Ten Boom

February 4

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness. —Elisabeth Elliot

February 5

The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art. —Vance Havner

February 6

Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use. —George Muller

February 7

Christians can never sin cheaply; they pay a heavy price for iniquity. Transgression destroys peace of mind, obscures fellowship with Jesus, hinders prayer, brings darkness over the soul; therefore be not the serf and bondman of sin. —Charles Spurgeon

February 8

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. —C.S. Lewis

February 9

The world takes its notions of God from the people who say that they belong to God's family. They read us a great deal more than they read the Bible. They see us; they only hear about Jesus Christ. —Alexander MacLaren

February 10

God proved his love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’ —Billy Graham

February 11

The intense activities of our times may lead to zeal in service, to the neglect of personal communion; but such neglect will not only lessen the value of the service, but tend to incapacitate us for the highest service. —Hudson Taylor

February 12

It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to pay the price for the privilege of preaching, so we accepted their [the communists' ] terms. It was a deal; we preached and they beat us. We were happy preaching. They were happy beating us, so everyone was happy. —Richard Wurmbrand

February 13

Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able. —Corrie Ten Boom

February 14

Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.’ —Elisabeth Elliot

February 15

Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time. —Vance Havner

February 16

It often astonishes me that I did not see the importance of meditation upon Scripture earlier in my Christian life. As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so it is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God -not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts. —George Muller

February 17

God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. —Charles Spurgeon

February 18

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. —C.S Lewis

February 19

The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide. —Alexander MacLaren

February 20

Christ not only died for all: he died for each. —Billy Graham

February 21

I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done. —Hudson Taylor

February 22

Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had. —Richard Wurmbrand

February 23

Don’t bother to give God instructions, just report for duty. —Corrie Ten Boom

February 24

God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now. —Elisabeth Elliot

February 25

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it. —Vance Havner

February 26

The greater the trial, the sweeter the victory. —George Muller

February 27

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. —Charles Spurgeon

February 28

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. —C.S. Lewis