John G. Lake Quotes

37 quotes in 516 categories

• There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.
• Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get…
• Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is.…
• Beloved, if any unholiness exists in the nature, it is not there by the consent of the Spirit of God. If unholiness is in your…
• We live that our souls may grow. The development of the soul is the purpose of existence. God Almighty is trying to obtain some decent…
• It is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner, I say in my heart, "God,…
• We cannot exercise our faith beyond what we believe to be possible.
• Think of Jonathan Edwards who thundered the terrors of God and what Hell was like until men grasped their seats and hung on to them,…
• There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has…
• If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should do, it can…
• The ministry of Christianity is the ministry of the Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that inhabits the words, that speaks to the spirit…
• There is a baptism that belongs to Jesus. It is in His supreme control. No angel or man can bestow it. It comes from Him…
• God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is.
• For the sake of a dying, suffering world count the cost, pay the price and set the captives free
• I feel that very frequently prayer is made a refuge to dodge the action of faith.
• Science is the discovery of how God does things.
• When I saw for the first time by the Word of God that sickness was not the Will of God, everything in my nature rose…
• The power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion. It makes one a god.
• The thing that was forfeited in the garden was regained. God gave him [Adam] dominion over the works of His hand. God made him His…
• Beloved, it is not our long prayers but our believing God that gets the answer.

Browse John G. Lake Quotes by Category