A. B. Simpson Quotes:

God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

Topics: Character, Humble, Age, Instruments Of God

The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

Topics: Giving, Church, Trying, Old Time, World Upside Down

The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.

Topics: Christian, Spiritual, Believe, Spiritual Death

Prayer is the link that connects us with God.

Topics: Prayer, Links, Praying To God

Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus.

Topics: Jesus, Challenges, Path, Hindrance, Sufficiency

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

source: - A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

Topics: Heart, Fire, Desire

One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.

Topics: Struggle, Lifetime, Christ

When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.

Topics: Inspirational, Father, Fate, God Is Faithful, Cruel Fate

We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.

Topics: Christian, Rights, Self

We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death.

source: - A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

Topics: Condolences, Sides, Overcoming, Conquering Fear

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

Topics: Thinking, Expectations, Limits

Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.

source: - A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

Topics: Heart, Dwelling, Perfection

One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.

Topics: Church, Special, Spirit, Apostolic, Apostolic Church

Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.

source: - Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses”, p.153

Topics: Blessed, Giving, Forget You, Live For Others

God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.

Topics: Christian, Hero, Opportunity

The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

Topics: Lying, Heart, Safe, Singleness, Obedience To God

God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.

Topics: Jesus, Men, Giving, Forget Him, Christ Alone

Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.

source: - A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

Topics: Healing, Giving, Worry, Worry Fear

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

Topics: People, Want, Doe

Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.

Topics: Christian, Prayer, Moving, Missions And Prayer, Engines

Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?

Topics: Missionary, Might, Ghost

We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have truly received the kingdom of God and His righteousness, the natural is added to the spiritual, and we are able to receive the gifts of His providence and the blessings of life without becoming centered in them or allowing them to separate us from Him.

Topics: Spiritual, Blessing, Kingdoms

Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.

Topics: Faith, Exercise, Temptation

Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.

Topics: Home, Missionary

There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.

Topics: Prayer, Children, Father

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

Topics: Past, People, Secret

The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.

Topics: Lying, Hero, Character, Overshadowing, Man Of God

There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.

Topics: Opportunity, Blessing, Two, Divine Grace

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

Topics: Thinking, Satan, Moments

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

Topics: Prayer, Praying, Christ

Christ rises above all things.

Topics: Christ, Rise Above

The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

Topics: Christian, Missionary, World, Soul Winning, Inspirational Missionary

When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.

source: - A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

Topics: Feelings, Lord, Circumstances

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

source: - A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

Topics: Christian, Idols, Long

A divided heart loses both worlds.

source: - A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

Topics: Heart, World, Divided Heart

Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.

Topics: Spring, Life Is, Christ, Passing On

Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.

Topics: Prayer, Blessing, Rose, Ascending, Supplies

The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.

Topics: Heart, Water, Joy, Troubled Heart

Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.

Topics: Jesus, Prayer, Father, Lone

The religion of the Bible is wholly supernatural.

Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

Topics: Needs, World, Christianity

Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.

Topics: Warning, May, Worship

One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!

Topics: Enthusiasm, Firsts, Spirit, Spirit Filled Life

Let us honor the Holy Ghost.

Topics: Honor, Spirit, Ghost

We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.

Topics: Men, May, Flesh

If God's Word is not absolutely and completely true, it is too weak a cable to fix our anchorage and guarantee our eternal peace.

Topics: Guarantees, Weak, Eternal Peace, Cables

Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.

Topics: Jesus, Prayer, Healing, Jesus Name

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

source: - A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers

Topics: Believe, Men, Missionary

Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.

Topics: Opportunity, Practice, Heaven

I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.

Topics: Christian, Hurt, Hands, Darts, Hurling

All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.

Topics: God, Opportunity, Shows

Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

Topics: Leadership, People, Should, Delegates

God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants everyone to have an opportunity to hear. Then He would have us move on to other areas. The mistake of the church has been that she sits down to convert all the people in one country to the neglect of the great masses who have never had the chance to hear the gospel - not even once!

Topics: Country, Mistake, Moving

All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.

Topics: Prayer, Passing Away, Earth

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

source: - A. B. Simpson (2010). “When God Steps In: Divine Resources for Life's Situations”, p.4, Moody Publishers

Topics: Heart, Age, Needs, Sufficiency

You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience.

Topics: Blessing, Rivers, Trials, Test Of Faith

This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.

Topics: Character, Men, Calling

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

Topics: Reflection, Self, Looks

There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

source: - A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

Topics: Children, Giving, Doe

It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.

Topics: Enough, Crosses, Decoration

Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

Topics: Christian, Darkness, World

God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

Topics: Christian, Mean, Men, Christian Work

I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.

Topics: Sake, Want, Helping

We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.

Topics: Years, Humanity, Suffering, Sinfulness

The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.

Topics: Men, Hands, Fellow Man, Withering

Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.

source: - A. B. Simpson (1998). “In Step with the Spirit: Discovering the Dynamics of the Deeper Life”, p.38, Moody Publishers

Topics: Ears, Mouths, Messages

Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others and for the kingdom of God? It will relieve you of a thousand cares.

source: - A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

Topics: Beautiful, Letting Go, Art, Beautiful Art

When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction.

source: - A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

Topics: Spiritual, Want, Pressure

A friend ... said, "You were healed by faith." "Oh, no," I said, "I was healed by Christ." What is the difference? There is a great difference. There came a time when even faith seemed to come between me and Jesus. I thought I should have to work up the faith, so I laboured to get the faith. At last I thought I had it; that if I put my whole weight upon it, it would hold. I said, when I thought I had got the faith, "Heal me." I was trusting in myself, in my own heart, in my own faith. I was asking the Lord to do something for me because of something in me, not because of something in Him.

Topics: Jesus, Heart, Should Have

It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.

source: - A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

Topics: Men, Fellow Man, Approval

The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is like the electric torch that shines over the water of New York Bay, struck by the wing of many a seabird that dashes against it in its reckless flight, but still shining on unmoved while the foolish and reckless assailant falls bleeding and wounded at its feet. It is an anvil which has worn out many a hammer of hostile criticism, while the anvil still remains unshaken amid the wreck of all that have assailed it.

Topics: New York, Book, Fall

Once I tried to use Him, now He uses me.

source: - A. B. Simpson (2009). “Wholly Sanctified: Living a Life Empowered by the Holy Spirit”, p.82, Moody Publishers

Topics: Use, Using Me

God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love.

Topics: Kings, Dark, Jewels, Bridegroom

Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.

source: - A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

Topics: Hurt, Men, Brave

The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer.

source: - A. B. Simpson (2009). “Wholly Sanctified: Living a Life Empowered by the Holy Spirit”, p.43, Moody Publishers

Topics: Divine Wisdom, Mind, World, Creationism

It is not the part of faith to question, but to obey.

Topics: Faith, Religious

You must have faith in God.

source: - A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

Topics: Have Faith, Faith In God, Have Faith In God

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Topics: God, Lord, Appointments

Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.

source: - A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

Topics: Expression, Wish, Ifs