S.D. Gordon Quotes

No man's hand has ever yet reached up to take as much as the Pierced Hand is reaching down to give.

The way from God to a human heart is through a human heart.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing; but it is the chief thing. The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; not those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time and pray

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.

Faith is blind ... to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.

Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.

Spirit discernment is rare because it is expensive. It means a sensitive conscience, an instructed understanding through study of the Book of God. It means a passion for purity, for truth, for the right, for Christ Himself, and for living uncompromisingly true in the daily habit. All this lies back of a seeing spirit eye. And these things cost. Discernment is expensive.

Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.

If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart strength to all its actions, and spread abroad the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and words, it is this simple and childlike repose in the arms of God.

It is good to know; it is better to do; it is best to be. To be pure and strong, to be honest and earnest, to be kindly and thoughtful, and in all to be true, ...

He that willeth to do shall know what he ought to do. He that doeth the thing he does know will know more. And that more done will open the door yet wider into all the fragrance of a strongly obedient life, and into a clear and clearing understanding of the Lord Jesus Himself.

Our prayer is God's opportunity to get into the world that would shut Him out.

One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.

If we lose the spirit of 'go,' we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead church. It will die of heart failure.

In the partnership of a pure, holy purpose it (money)seems almost omnipotent. But when it is allowed to grip both lines and whip, it drives a man at such a pace as to use up all his strength, and leave him utterly winded for anything else.

The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.

God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.

It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.

The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.

Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces.

Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.