G. Campbell Morgan Quotes

Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our fellowship is with God, and fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which, on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness.

If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.

To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving and toiling everywhere and always for that ultimate victory.

The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God's Spirit. We also need a regular systematic study of the Scriptures. We cannot maintain our spiritual life without it any more than we can maintain our physical bodies without proper nourishment. We also need to let what we study become a vital part of our daily lives. Take it to the store, the office, the school room, etc. Take it, and apply it wherever you go.

The whole life story of Jesus, on the human side, is the life story of One who lived by faith.

The supreme need in every hour of difficulty and distress is for a fresh vision of God. Seeing Him, all else takes on proper perspective and proportion.

The world hates Christian people if they can see God in them.

Waiting for God means power to do nothing save under command. This is not lack of power to do anything. Waiting for God needs strength rather than weakness. It is power to do nothing. It is the strength that holds strength in check. It is the strength that prevents the blundering activity which is entirely false and will make true activity impossible when the definite command comes.

Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.

Men ought not to faint because men ought to pray.

The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.

We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again

Concerning the loved ones who have passed on ... do not try to make me believe that they are doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever. That would imply the condition of Hell, not of Heaven.

The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.

If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.

The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King ... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.

The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence of his infinite love.

The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.

There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.

The year is made up of minutes. Let these be watched as having been dedicated to God. It is in the sanctification of the small that hallowing of the large is secure.

To the individual believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit there is granted the direct impression of the Spirit of God on the spirit of man, imparting the knowledge of His will in matters of the smallest and greatest importance. This has to be sought and waited for.

No one statement wrested from its context is a sufficient warrant for actions that plainly controvert other commands. How excellent a thing it would be if the whole Church of Christ had learned that no law of life may be based upon an isolated text. Every false teacher who has divided the Church, has had, "it is written" on which to hang his doctrine.

What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.

The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.

The capacity for tears is the last demonstration of greatness.

You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.

The purpose of God and the power of God is available for every man.