Albert Benjamin Simpson Quotes

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The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
If God's Word is not absolutely and completely true, it is too weak a cable to fix our anchorage and guarantee our eternal peace.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
God's jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King's palace and the Bridegroom's Love.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants everyone to have an opportunity to hear. Then He would have us move on to other areas. The mistake of the church has been that she sits down to convert all the people in one country to the neglect of the great masses who have never had the chance to hear the gospel - not even once!

Albert Benjamin Simpson
Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others and for the kingdom of God? It will relieve you of a thousand cares.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.

Albert Benjamin Simpson
The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

Albert Benjamin Simpson