Samuel Dickey Gordon Quotes

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If we lose the spirit of 'go,' we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead church. It will die of heart failure.

Samuel Dickey Gordon
Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.

Samuel Dickey Gordon
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

Samuel Dickey Gordon
Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.

Samuel Dickey Gordon
The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing; but it is the chief thing. The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; not those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time and pray.

Samuel Dickey Gordon
Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.

Samuel Dickey Gordon
If there are two persons praying, there are three. If three meet to pray, there are four praying. There is always one more than you can see.

Samuel Dickey Gordon
Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

Samuel Dickey Gordon
Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.

Samuel Dickey Gordon
It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.

Samuel Dickey Gordon
The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.

Samuel Dickey Gordon
God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.

Samuel Dickey Gordon