Quotes by R. A. Torrey
R. A. Torrey (1856–1928) — Evangelist · Evangelikal · USA
Reuben Archer Torrey (1856–1928) war ein US-amerikanischer evangelikaler Pastor, weltweiter Evangelist und Leiter von Ausbildungsstätten in Chicago und Los Angeles. Als Mitherausgeber der Aufsatzreihe „The Fundamentals“ und Verfechter einer gesonderten Geistestaufe zum Dienst prägte er den frühen Fundamentalismus im Streit gegen die theologische Moderne. Für Bibelleser heute bieten seine Werke praktische Anregungen zu Gebet, persönlicher Hingabe und methodischem Bibelstudium.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Prayer & Silence, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, The Bible & the Word of God, Grace & Redemption, Church & Congregation, Temptation & Struggle, Faith & Trust, Doubt & Hard Questions
Quotes by R. A. Torrey
I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.
R. A. Torrey
We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services, but few conversions; much machinery, but few results.
R. A. Torrey
Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all, pray.
R. A. Torrey
Prayer is the key that unlocks all the storehouses of God’s infinite grace and power.
R. A. Torrey
The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.
R. A. Torrey
The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came… Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.
R. A. Torrey
All that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of prayer. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do everything, prayer is omnipotent.
R. A. Torrey
Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force and human brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against this Book, and yet the Bible stands absolutely unshaken today. At times almost all the wise and great of the earth have been pitted against the Bible, and only an obscure few for it. Yet it has stood.
R. A. Torrey
Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God’s listening ears.
R. A. Torrey
How enormous and wonderful and glorious would be the result is all Christians should begin to be active personal workers to the extent of their ability.
R. A. Torrey
We hear much in our day of the rest of faith, but there is such a thing as the fight of faith in prayer as well as in effort. Those who would have us think that they have attained to some sublime height of faith and trust because they never know any agony of conflict or of prayer, have surely gotten beyond their Lord, and beyond the mightiest victors for God, both in effort and prayer, that the ages of Christian history have known. When we learn to come to God with an intensity of desire that wrings the soul, then shall we know a power in prayer that most of us do not know now.
R. A. Torrey
When Jesus died, He died as my representative, and I died in Him; when He arose, He rose as my representative, and I arose in Him; when He ascended up on high and took His place at the right hand of the Father in the glory, He ascended as my representative and I ascended in Him, and today I am seated in Christ with God in the heavenlies. I look at the cross of Christ, and I know that atonement has been made for my sins; I look at the open sepulcher and the risen and ascended Lord, and I know the atonement has been accepted. There no longer remains a single sin on me, no matter how many or how great my sins may have been.
R. A. Torrey
It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication table, and say, “This is the Word of God. In it He has revealed His whole will and wisdom,” I would shake my head and say, “I cannot believe it; that is too easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.” There must be, in any complete revelation of God’s mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.
R. A. Torrey
To win men to acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord is the only reason Christians are left in this world.
R. A. Torrey
Worship is adoring contemplation of God.
R. A. Torrey
A verse must be read often, and re-read and read again before the wondrous message of love and power that God has put into begins to appear. Words must be turned over and over in the mind before their full force and beauty takes possession of us. One must look a long time at the great masterpieces of art to appreciate their beauty and understand their meaning, and so one must look a long time at the great verses of the Bible to appreciate their beauty and understand their meaning.
R. A. Torrey
When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.
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Sources: wikipedia.org, pneumaandlogos.com, sharedveracity.net, bethelcornerstone.org
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