Let My People Go Quotes

“I talked to them,” he said, “until their hearts were moved and tears came to their eyes. I found that the love of Jesus and His vicarious death on the cross was the theme that seemed to touch the tender spot in their hearts.”
― A.W. Tozer, Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray

“He had such a sense of the presence of God upon him that every common act was a prayer. This describes Jaffray precisely, and it accounts for his being able to be always in the Spirit and always on the go.”
― A.W. Tozer, Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray

“As he grew older his passion to reach the lost grew stronger, his vision widened and his purpose narrowed. The walls of his office were hung with huge maps over which he pored for hours like a field marshall. Every issue of his magazines contained maps, he lectured with maps before him and he always talked of places and people who waited for the light.”
― A.W. Tozer, Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray

“If we must analyze the man, if we must take his soul apart to see what made him the great missionary he was, this would seem to be the answer to our question. We hardly need explore further. He loved God and all God’s creatures. It was as if there flowed within the heart of the man a rising well of affection that had to find an object.”
― A.W. Tozer, Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray

“Spurgeon had a saying that a minister’s congregation would always be the size of his heart. In at least one particular all spiritual leaders have been alike—they have all had large hearts. Nothing can take the place of affection. Those who have it in generous measure possess a magic power over men. Intellect will not do; Bible knowledge is not enough; even an upright life will be found wanting without this greatest of all gifts.”
― A.W. Tozer, Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray

“To be a great soul winner,” Simpson replied, “a man must first be a great lover.”
― A.W. Tozer, Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray

“The province of Kwangsi, in the great and thickly settled south of China, he found to be not only devoid of gospel light but bitterly opposed to the preaching of Christianity within its borders.”
― A.W. Tozer, Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray

“After listening to one of Simpson’s impassioned addresses, he threw himself at the feet of Christ and surrendered his entire life to Him and His cause. He immediately became active in his home church, but the vision of a whole world lost would not let him rest content with church work. The call of the masses was upon his heart now and the urge of the Spirit was within him. He was not too sure yet, but vaguely he sensed that the voice of the Lord was saying to him, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people and I have come down to rescue them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh, and you shall say to him, ‘Let my people go.”
― A.W. Tozer, Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray

“After that, Christ’s people were his people in a sense none other could be. For the lost tribes of the earth he felt a kinship such as Moses felt for the children of Israel. He felt them to be God’s people, though held under the bondage of sin. In the same way they were Jaffray’s own people, and he was called to set them free. He distinctly heard a Voice saying, “Say to Pharaoh: Let my people go!”
― A.W. Tozer, Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray