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A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart — this is what is needed.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

Not simply the righteousness of our Saviour, not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put on as a garment. The Lord Himself is our vesture. Every Christian is not only a Christ bearer, but a Christ wearer. We are so to enter into Him by communion, to be so endued with His presence, and imbued with His Spirit that men shall see Him when they behold us, as they see our garments when they look upon our bodies.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

Whenever, in any century, whether in a single heart or in a company of believers, there has been a fresh effusion of the Spirit, there has followed inevitably a fresh endeavor in the work of evangelizing the world.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

Adoniram Judson Gordon

Adoniram Judson Gordon

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Born: April 19, 1836

Died: 1895 (aged 58)

Bio: Adoniram Judson Gordon was an American Baptist preacher, writer, composer, and founder of Gordon College and Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary.

Known for:

The ministry of the Spirit (1894)
The Holy Spirit in missions (1893)
Ecce venit = (1889)
Rest In Christ (1892)

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