10 People Every Christian Should Know Quotes

“Tozer’s sermons often confront us with these questions: Is God real to you? Is your Christian experience a set of definitions, a list of orthodox doctrines, or a living relationship with God? Do you have a firsthand experience with him, or a secondhand experience through others? Is your heart hungering and thirsting after personal holiness?”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 10 People Every Christian Should Know

“Stop having a measuring rod for other people. There is always one fact more in every man’s case about which we know nothing.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 10 People Every Christian Should Know

“Amy Carmichael’s principles for prayer: (1) We don’t need to explain to our Father things that are known to him. (2) We don’t need to press him, as if we had to deal with an unwilling God. (3) We don’t need to suggest to him what to do, for he himself knows what to do. If all of us took these principles to heart, think of the religious speeches that would be silenced in many prayer meetings.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 10 People Every Christian Should Know

“Want of trust is at the root of almost all our sins and all our weaknesses,” he wrote in that same editorial, “and how shall we escape it but by looking to Him and observing His faithfulness. The man who holds God’s faithfulness will not be foolhardy or reckless, but he will be ready for every emergency.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 10 People Every Christian Should Know

“Like every good teacher and preacher, he turned the ear into an eye and helped people to see spiritual truth. He knew that the mind is not a debating chamber—it is a picture gallery.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 10 People Every Christian Should Know

“True religion, in great part, consists in holy affections.”[2] However, he opposed emotion for emotion’s sake. He carefully explained the difference between shallow emotionalism and true affections that prepare the way for men and women to receive God’s truth.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 10 People Every Christian Should Know

“He read John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding and made an about-face in his approach to the problem of how people think and learn. He came to the conclusion that “knowledge” was not something divorced from the rest of life, but that a man’s senses helped to teach him truth. In other words, sensory experience and thinking must go together. Again, Edwards saw the importance of uniting the mind and the heart.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 10 People Every Christian Should Know

“Edwards would never divorce the mind and the heart.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 10 People Every Christian Should Know

“Edwards was never content to have only book knowledge of God. He sought to experience God in his own life in a personal way. He was not an ivory-tower theologian, spinning webs of words. He always centered on the experience of the heart;”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 10 People Every Christian Should Know

“The snare in Christian work is to rejoice in successful service, to rejoice in the fact that God has used you. . . . If you make usefulness the test, then Jesus Christ was the greatest failure that ever lived. The lodestar of the saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that counts, not what we do for Him.[27]”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 10 People Every Christian Should Know

“You can never give another person that which you have found, but you can make him homesick for what you have.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 10 People Every Christian Should Know

“Here is a “Confession of Love” that she drew up for a group of Indian girls who banded together to serve Christ. Perhaps it best says to us just what Amy Carmichael believed about Christian life and service. My Vow: Whatsoever Thou sayest unto me, by Thy grace I will do it. My Constraint: Thy love, O Christ, my Lord. My Confidence: Thou art able to keep that which I have committed unto thee. My Joy: To do Thy will, O God. My Discipline: That which I would not choose, but which Thy love appoints. My Prayer: Conform my will to Thine. My Motto: Love to live—live to love. My Portion: The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance. With that kind of devotion and dedication, is it any wonder that Amy Carmichael was misunderstood by believers, persecuted by unbelievers, attacked by Satan, and blessed by the Lord? Unpredictable? Yes—but not unblessable! We could use a few more like her in Christian service today.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 10 People Every Christian Should Know

“Moody’s success lay in his tremendous burden for the lost and a willingness to do whatever God asked of him. The life and ministry of this humble man of God is an example to us of what the Lord can do in the life of an ordinary person who is totally yielded to him.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 10 People Every Christian Should Know