50 People Every Christian Should Know Quotes

“This surely is a good rule: whenever you see a fault in any other man, or any other church, look for it in yourself and in your own church.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“(children learn to appreciate good books by contagion, not compulsion).”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“To Maclaren, preparing messages was hard work. He often said he could never prepare sermons while wearing slippers: he always wore his outdoor boots. Studying was work, and he took it seriously.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“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.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“I will not gaze at glory,
But on my King of Grace— Not at the crown He giveth,
But on His pierced hand:”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“many Christians today will not permit God to prepare them. They go too fast, too soon. When they get “to the top,” they soon discover the shoes are too big for their pygmy feet. The applause of the crowd is not always the approval of the Lord.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“The best book is not one that informs merely,” he wrote, “but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“Christ will have nothing of the culture of the brain, at the expense of the culture of the character.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“Griffith Thomas’s advice to young preachers was: “Think yourself empty, read yourself full, write yourself clear, pray yourself keen—then enter the pulpit and let yourself go!”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“We have too many “celebrities” and not enough servants—“ nine-day wonders” that may flash across the scene for a time and then disappear. Before God works through us, he works in us, because the work that we do is the outgrowth of the life that we live.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“If the Father has the kingdom ready for us, He will take care of us on the way.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“(Spurgeon once preached a sermon in his sleep. His wife wrote down the main points and gave the outline to him the next morning—and he went to the tabernacle and preached it!)”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“In June of that year Moody learned a lesson that helped transform his life and direct him into his future ministry. One of his faithful teachers was dying of tuberculosis and was greatly burdened for his pupils. Before he went to heaven, he wanted to be sure all of them were converted. The man was too weak to visit them alone, so Moody went along. For ten days, the two men visited home after home; and at the end of that time, they saw each of the children won to the Lord. When the teacher left for his widowed mother’s home to die, the entire class was at the railroad station, singing songs about heaven.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“Cambridge seven);”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“William Temple’s definition of worship: “to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open up the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“The Bride eyes not her garment,
But her dear Bridegroom’s face; I will not gaze at glory,
But on my King of Grace— Not at the crown He giveth,
But on His pierced hand: The Lamb is all the glory
Of Immanuel’s land.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“David Dickson, whose commentary on the Psalms has been reissued by Banner of Truth and is worth owning.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“It was the evangelicals who led the fight against slavery, child labor, poor factory conditions, and the abuse of the poor and the insane. Much of what we value in modern social legislation, and perhaps take for granted, grew out of the ministry of Wesley and Whitefield and their successors.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“joined”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“I have thanked Him for it,” she wrote to her sisters, “more than I have prayed about it.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“Nearly twenty years before, Hudson Taylor had written in an editorial: “All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them.” As he looked at himself, Hudson Taylor saw nothing but weakness; but as generations of Christians have studied Taylor’s life, they have become acquainted with a man who dared to believe the Word of God and, by faith, carried the gospel to inland China—and saw God work wonders! “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, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“The gospel, as a glass [mirror], should be kept clean and clear in the pulpit,” he wrote, “that the hearers may see the glory of Christ and be changed to the same image.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“Luther called marriage “a school for character,” and he was right. He realized that his own life was enriched because of the love of his wife and family.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith

“He walked rapidly, ate rapidly, and loved to drive fast horses. He was fond of antique furniture, books (especially biographies), travel (his church sent him to Europe and once he sailed as far as Japan), sweets, and iced drinks. His cup of coffee began as a cup of sugar, then the coffee was poured in! In spite of his mother’s pleas, Brooks continued to smoke; his ideal vacation was made up of “plenty of books and time and tobacco.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith