Quotes by G. Campbell Morgan
G. Campbell Morgan (1863–1945) — Prediger · Kongregationalistisch · England
George Campbell Morgan (1863–1945) war ein englischer Prediger, Evangelist und Bibellehrer, der vor allem durch seinen langjährigen Dienst an der Londoner Westminster Chapel sowie durch Vortragsreisen in den USA bekannt wurde. Er prägte die methodisch genaue, fortlaufende Auslegungspredigt und vertrat ein schriftzentriertes Bibelverständnis, während er sich im Fundamentalismusstreit der 1920er-Jahre von polemischen Abspaltungen distanzierte. Heutigen Bibellesern vermitteln seine zahlreichen Kommentare und Predigtreihen ein textnahes, analytisches Schriftstudium mit praxisnaher pastoraler Ausrichtung.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Church & Congregation, Witness & Mission, Discipleship, Prayer & Silence, The Bible & the Word of God, Hope & Confidence, Guidance & God's Will, Temptation & Struggle
Quotes by G. Campbell Morgan
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.
G. Campbell Morgan
Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.
G. Campbell Morgan
I am not expecting death. I am expecting Him.
G. Campbell Morgan
I never begin my work in the morning without thinking that perhaps He may interrupt it during the day to begin His own.
G. Campbell Morgan
Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God’s triumph. Prayer is life striving and toiling everywhere and always for that ultimate victory.
G. Campbell Morgan
The preacher comes with good news; but he does not come with something to be trifled with. His message has an insistent demand, because he comes from a King.
G. Campbell Morgan
The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.
G. Campbell Morgan
To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.
G. Campbell Morgan
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.
G. Campbell Morgan
If someone is known as a Christian and does not live as one, he dishonours God. To bear this name is to take on a responsibility, great and glorious, but no less very solemn.
G. Campbell Morgan
Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not going to sleep. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.
G. Campbell Morgan
The Church of God apart from the Person of Christ is a useless structure. However ornate it may be in its organization, however perfect in all its arrangements, however rich and increased with goods, if the Church is not revealing the Person, lifting Him to the height where all men can see Him, then the Church becomes an impertinence and a sham, a blasphemy and a fraud, and the sooner the world is rid of it, the better.
G. Campbell Morgan
If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you’re serving in the wrong place.
G. Campbell Morgan
Unbelief is not a lack of intellectual understanding. It is disobedience against the clear commands of God.
G. Campbell Morgan
Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and one trivialities in which we are asked to waste our time and strength, and resolutely return to the apostolic ideal which made necessary the office of the pastorate. (We must resolve that) we will continue steadfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the Word.
G. Campbell Morgan
God seeks and values the gifts we bring Him – gifts of praise, thanksgiving, service, and material offerings. In all such giving at the altar we enter into the highest experiences of fellowship. But the gift is acceptable to God in the measure to which the one who offers it is in fellowship with Him in character and conduct; and the test of this is in our relationships with our fellow men. We are thus charged to postpone giving to God until right relationships are established with others. Could the neglect of this be the explanation of the barrenness of our worship? (Matt. 5:24)
G. Campbell Morgan
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.
G. Campbell Morgan
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.
G. Campbell Morgan
I am not arguing for mere excitement. Painted fire never burns, and an imitated enthusiasm is the most empty thing that can possibly exist in a preacher. Given the preacher with a message…I cannot understand that man not being swept sometimes right out of himself by the fire and and force and the fervency of his work.
G. Campbell Morgan
When amusement is necessary to get people to listen to the gospel there will be failure. This is not the method of Christ. To form an organization and provide all kinds of entertainment for young people, in order that they may come to the Bible classes, is to be foredoomed to failure.
G. Campbell Morgan
There is a tale told of that great English actor Macready. An eminent preacher once said to him: “I wish you would explain to me something.” “Well, what is it? I don’t know that I can explain anything to a preacher.” “What is the reason for the difference between you and me? You are appearing before crowds night after night with fiction, and the crowds come wherever you go. I am preaching the essential and unchangeable truth, and I am not getting any crowd at all.” Macready’s answer was this: “This is quite simple. I can tell you the difference between us. I present my fiction as though it were truth; you present your truth as though it were fiction.”
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Sources: wikipedia.org, gotquestions.org, preaching.com, scriptoriumdaily.com
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