Quotes by Alan Redpath
Alan Redpath (1907–1989) — Pastor, Prediger und Buchautor · evangelikal / baptistisch · Großbritannien
Alan Redpath (1907–1989) war ein britischer evangelikaler Pastor und Autor, der unter anderem die Moody Church in Chicago sowie Gemeinden in London und Edinburgh leitete. Geprägt von der Keswick-Bewegung, stand er für eine fortlaufende Schriftauslegung, die persönliche Heiligung, Gebet und die Abhängigkeit vom Heiligen Geist betonte. Für Bibelleser heute veranschaulichen seine Auslegungen und Zitate das geistliche Leben als lebenslangen Reifungsprozess praktischer Hingabe und Bewährung im Leiden.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Discipleship, Growth & Character, Prayer & Silence, Humility & Pride, Grace & Redemption, Church & Congregation, Service & Love of Neighbour, Guidance & God's Will
Quotes by Alan Redpath
The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the making of a saint is the task of a lifetime.
Alan Redpath
Never undertake more Christian service than you can cover by believing prayer.
Alan Redpath
We can only meet the immense need of a work for the Lord through boundless trust in the grace and power of our Savior.
Alan Redpath
The greatest threat to revival is the Christian who refuses to work together with other Christians simply because he holds a different view on certain biblical statements that are of little importance for evangelism.
Alan Redpath
Lord Jesus, please do not place me in a position in your service in which Satan has no interest; for if that place of service is a matter of indifference to him, it cannot be God's will for me to serve there.
Alan Redpath
Isn’t it amazing how people are more scared of holiness than they are of sin?
Alan Redpath
God is still the same today, and he is just as eager to give us the fullness of his blessing.
Alan Redpath
In the Old Testament, obedience was commanded through the law. For us, it should be brought about through love.
Alan Redpath
Too often it is about work that is seen by people, and too rarely about remaining before God in prayer.
Alan Redpath
Prayer is not merely talk, but battle.
Alan Redpath
I am a steward, not an owner, of all the goods entrusted to me.
Alan Redpath
Look to the cross and to the blood, and you will learn something of the power of effective prayer.
Alan Redpath
The Christian church today should produce Christian teachers, Christian statesmen, Christian lawyers. In every sphere of life there must be men who know their God and who are bold enough to venture something for him.
Alan Redpath
Satan hurls his fiery arrows at the child of God who has surrendered to God’s will, and likewise at the church that is concerned for the salvation of people.
Alan Redpath
The Christian life does not get easier as you get older.
Alan Redpath
When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible man, and He crushes him.
Alan Redpath
Only when every area of our life is fully surrendered to God can God achieve his purposes through us, and only when he fulfills his purposes in our life will our life truly be successful.
Alan Redpath
We cannot treat service to God as a hobby.
Alan Redpath
We should never enter into service for the Lord before counting the cost.
Alan Redpath
A basic feature of revival is the breaking of the heart.
Alan Redpath
Before God creates revival, he wants to break our hearts.
Alan Redpath
We are prepared to serve the Lord only by sacrifice. We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done. May God give to us hearts that bleed, eyes that are wide open to see, minds that are clear to interpret God’s purposes, wills that are obedient, and a determination that is utterly unflinching as we set about the tasks He would have us do.
Alan Redpath
In the light of the cross, tell me: isn't it a scandal that you and I live the way we do?
Alan Redpath
We are only fit for God's work when we have first wept and prayed over it.
Alan Redpath
May God give us hearts that bleed, eyes wide open to see, minds able to discern clearly God's purpose, a will that obeys, and a determination that tirelessly takes up the tasks God wants us to do.
Alan Redpath
Satan does not much trouble himself about the church in general, except when a Christian, in selfless devotion, seeks only the honor of God and is determined to turn back Satan's grip on the hearts and lives of people in God's name.
Alan Redpath
God does not rest until we have surrendered our lives to him without reservation.
Alan Redpath
If we do not bow before God daily in our life as Christians, we become hard-hearted, cold, and indifferent to divine things.
Alan Redpath
God will never sow the seed of new life on a hard, superficial heart.
Alan Redpath
If there is not a feeling of overwhelming burden on our hearts, we will never work fruitfully in service for God.
Alan Redpath
It is my deepest conviction that every Christian who is not a member of a local church is not acting according to the will of God.
Alan Redpath
God, trying to tell us that our current popular version of Christianity – comfortable, humorous, superficial, entertaining, worldly-wise is exposed (by the lack of power to transform lives) for the irreverent presentation of the Gospel of Christ that it really is. A preacher is commissioned to give the people not what they think they need. No man has any business walking into the pulpit to entertain. He is there [instead] to present Calvary in all its fullness of hope and glory.
Alan Redpath
There is nothing – no circumstance, no trouble, no testing – that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no trial will ever disarm me, no circumstance will cause my to fret – for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is! That is the rest of victory!
Alan Redpath
The immense step from the Babe at Bethlehem to the living, reigning triumphant Lord Jesus, returning to earth for his own people–that is the glorious truth proclaimed throughout Scripture. As the bells ring out the joys of Christmas, may we also be alert for the final trumpet that will announce his return, when we shall always be with him.
Alan Redpath
Sources: wikipedia.org, patheos.com, sermonindex.net, caymancompass.com
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