I will eat your soul.

Yesterday, I was the only one in the office all day. Almost as soon as I got into the church, this hunger washed over me--a hunger to see the lost come to Christ. I read through the Sermon on the Mount, and nearly wept at every word Jesus said. I went through the pews praying that they would be filled.

And my heart broke when I thought that the people liked their elbow room and the fact that they don't have to remember any new names.

I spent most of the day looking through D. L. Moody quotes trying to find something on the urgency of evangelism. I did a lot of that today, too. Following is a collection of quotes that struck me and wouldn't let go.
Some of them hurt very badly.



'A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know. '


'There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things. '


'We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. '

' Now, there are three kinds of joy; there is the joy of one's own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had ever known, and that I could never get beyond it. But I found, afterward, there was something more joyful that, namely, the joy of the salvation of others.'

'God sent Moses down to Egypt to bring 3,000,000 people out of bondage. The idea would have seemed absurd to most people. Fancy a man with an impediment in his speech, without an army, without Generals, with no record, bringing 3,000,000 people from the power of a great nation like that of the Egyptians. But God sent him, and what was the result? Pharaoh said they should not go, and the great king and all his army were going to prevent them. But did he succeed? God sent Moses and he didn't fail.'

'Now is a time of mercy. It may be I am talking to someone whose days of grace may be few, to someone who may be snatched away very soon, who may never hear another gospel sermon, who may be hearing the last call. My friend, be wise! Make up your mind that you will seek the kingdom of God now. "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.'

'I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me'

'Character is what a man is in the dark.'

'If your Gospel isn't touching others, it hasn't touched you!' - Curry R. Blake

'Sympathy is no substitute for action.' - David Livingstone

'No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.' - Oswald J. Smith

'Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.' - Roland Allen

''Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face -- whose mercy you have professed to obey -- and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.' - William Booth

'As a large fire begins with kindling of small twigs and branches, even so a large revival is preceded by the prayers of a few hidden seemingly insignificant souls. ' - Gary Amirault

'Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. ' - John Piper

'If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one GO there UNWARNED and UNPRAYED for.' - Charles Spurgeon

'Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell.' - C. T. Studd

'Those were great days, and great victories were won. We always managed a riot or a revival. Sometimes a riot and no revival, but never a revival without a riot.' - William Nicholson

'If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.' - Leonard Ravenhill (OUCH)

'A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.' - Richard Baxter




Discuss, comment, react, add. I don't know if we could ever list enough quotes on this topic. It is the absolute pinnacle of importance.