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,… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share
Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God. — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Do not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible,… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Tell me your doctrine of the Fall and I will tell you the state of your theology. — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins. — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share
Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer. — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all pray. — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool. — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
The best book in the world to put into the hands of one who desires to know about Jesus and to be saved is… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Gospel preachers nowadays preach the gospel of the Crucifixion, the Apostles preached the gospel of the Resurrection as well. The Crucifixion loses its meaning without the Resurrection. Without the Resurrection the death of Christ was only the heroic death of a noble martyr; with the Resurrection it is the atoning death the Son of God. It shows that death to… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share
The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man. — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
