God's Generals Quotes

“The practice of prayer and fasting was paramount to club membership. This one ingredient may have been the critical characteristic that caused the Wesleys, along with Whitefield and others, to emerge as such powerful forces for Christ.”
― Roberts Liardon, God's Generals: The Revivalists (Spiritual Biographies of Revival, Including Billy Graham, George Whitefield, Charles Finney, William and Catherine Booth, and More)

“One of Rev. McGready’s sermons, entitled “A Sacramental Meditation,” was based upon Genesis 28:17—“How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.” This sermon can perhaps begin to give us an understanding of the intensity that led to such extreme reactions. The points of this sermon resemble some that Edwards made in his famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”: 1)A sacramental table is a dreadful place; for God is there. 2)A sacramental table is a dreadful place, because it is a striking exhibition of the most important transaction ever witnessed by men or angels, vis. the redemption of guilty sinners by the bitter agonies, bloody sufferings and dying groans of the incarnate God. 3)A sacramental table is a dreadful place; for the Holy One of Israel here confers and sups with pardoned rebels. 4)A sacramental table is a dreadful place; for here heaven is brought down to earth.316”
― Roberts Liardon, God's Generals: The Revivalists (Spiritual Biographies of Revival, Including Billy Graham, George Whitefield, Charles Finney, William and Catherine Booth, and More)

“The chief danger of the twentieth century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and Heaven without Hell.
—William Booth”
― Roberts Liardon, God's Generals: The Revivalists (Spiritual Biographies of Revival, Including Billy Graham, George Whitefield, Charles Finney, William and Catherine Booth, and More)