Quotes by Samuel Chadwick
Samuel Chadwick (1860–1932) — Prediger, Evangelist, Rektor des Cliff College und Autor · Methodismus (Wesleyanisch / Heiligungsbewegung) · Großbritannien
Samuel Chadwick war ein britischer methodistischer Prediger, Evangelist und Leiter des Cliff College an der Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert. Er stand für die wesleyanische Heiligungsbewegung und betonte in seinen Schriften und Predigten die Notwendigkeit des beharrlichen Gebets sowie das Wirken des Heiligen Geistes. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet er als Autor, der die Kirche vor geistlicher Selbstgenügsamkeit warnte und zu einer kompromisslosen Hingabe an Gott aufrief.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Prayer & Silence, Church & Congregation, Temptation & Struggle, Courage & Strength, Growth & Character, Patience & Waiting, Time & Transience, Peace & Rest
Quotes by Samuel Chadwick
The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
Samuel Chadwick
[Prayer] turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.
Samuel Chadwick
The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.
Samuel Chadwick
In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.
Samuel Chadwick
The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.
Samuel Chadwick
A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.
Samuel Chadwick
Hurry is the death of prayer.
Samuel Chadwick
Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God.
Samuel Chadwick
The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure.
Samuel Chadwick
Great grief prays with great earnestness. Prayer is not a collection of balanced phrases; it is the pouring out of the soul. What is love if it be not fiery? What are prayers if the heart be not ablaze? They are the battles of the soul. In them men wrestle with principalities and powers…The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.
Samuel Chadwick
True prayer is a lonely business.
Samuel Chadwick
Why does the church remain within its four walls? Because it has a theology reduced to a philosophy, with no joy in the faith, no terror of the end, and no concern for souls.
Samuel Chadwick
Prayer is the acid test of devotion.
Samuel Chadwick
A religion of mere emotion and sensationalism is the most terrible of curses that can come upon any people.
Samuel Chadwick
There is no power like that of prevailing prayer, of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat of blood. Add to this list from the records of the church your personal observation and experience, and always there is the cost of passion unto blood. Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.
Samuel Chadwick
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