Quotes
April 2023
Man was transformed three times after the sin of Adam: Adam – God’s Glory removed; Abel – faith was imparted and Cain’s stature was changed. – Michael Haigh
Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice. – A. W. Tozer (1897 – 1963)
Christ holds the most endearing title, Bridegroom; He has the most engrossing name, Jesus; He has the most enduring designation, the Truth; He has the most enriching office, that of High Priest; He has the most enlightening vocation, namely, to reveal the Father; He has the most encouraging mission, to redeem mankind; and He has the most enrapturing motive, to glorify God. – Charles J. Rolls (1856 – unknown)
Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is false to the cross of Christ and on the side of the devil. – A. W. Tozer (1897 – 1963)
Since man is limited in his particular range of existence, he cannot see history as important. This plays into the war games of Satan. He doesn’t want mankind to understand the past. Satan doesn’t want man to comprehend the present, and he doesn’t want man to realize the future. – Mary Haigh
Christ is the sole object of heaven. Christ is the sole object of creation. Christ is the sole object of God’s determinate counsels. Christ is the sole object of redemption and Christ is the sole object of the Father’s love. – Michael Haigh
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it. – Chinese proverb
Man’s intellectual power is weak at best for man in all his reasoning cannot obtain the knowledge of God without divine intervention and revelation from God. – Michael Haigh
Prayer will become more effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience. – A. W. Tozer (1897 – 1963)
The very image of the invisible God is the full radiance, the full and complete effulgence of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. – Michael Haigh
Servants of God do not need a building to serve God. A building cannot replace The Person because the message will become about the building and not about The Person. Why has the church failed? It has failed because it has sought its own glory. Christ is not taught. Christ is not known. Christ is not cared for, thus, the glory has departed and He is not even missed. – Mary Haigh
The Bible is either a deliberate imposture, manufactured by wicked men; or it is the product of deluded visionaries, who vainly imagined they were giving forth inspired messages from heaven; or else it is what it claims to be: an infallible and authoritative revelation from God Himself to the sons of men. – A. W. Pink (1886 – 1952)
The apostate church loves their heresies; the religious man loves his self-righteous hypocrisy; and the intellectual loves his ignorance; consequently, Satan basks in their religiousness and their ignorance of Christianity. – Mary Haigh
To beg for a flood of blessing to come upon a backslidden and disobedient Church is to waste time and effort. We must cleanse the temple of the hucksters and the money changers and come fully under the authority of our risen Lord once more. – A. W. Tozer (1897 – 1963)
Christianity is NOT a religion. Christianity is revelation, regeneration and a relationship. God through Christ reveals Himself and draws His new-born-again creatures into a love relationship with Him. THAT IS CHRISTIANITY. Religion is man betting his eternal existence on the acceptability of his ‘good’ works alone. – Mary Haigh
. . . and I have remarked in my experiences that the servant (of God) who refused to receive support from anyone except the Holy Spirit, the only One competent to bear witness of Christ in heaven, was largely compensated by the knowledge of heavenly things. – J. B. Stoney (1814-1895)
Those who claim not to exclude anyone have no trouble excluding me. – Michael Haigh
Satan’s frenzied fury against manhood is the result of his insane hatred against God’s order, meaning that God’s governmental order, God’s laws, and God’s creation of male and female is the battle ground. Do you think that the attack today against MAN as male is merely a political fluke? To remove maleness from the earth is a strategic act of war against man and God. – Mary Haigh
We must not be concerned only with that which troubles us, but with all that troubles God. – John Owen (1616 – 1683)
Man has willingly given up life eternal for a false belief system that is based on his own imagination. – Michael Haigh
When everything has failed on earth, He directs me to where there is no failure, He turns my eye to heaven. – J. B. Stoney (1814-1895)
The worship of any graven image is idolatry no matter how that image is portrayed for being good, or godly, or holy . . . it is STILL idolatry. – Mary Haigh
If every man would sweep his own doorstep the city would soon by clean. – Welsh proverb
Because man lives by his own definitions of goodness, he is not capable of understanding the goodness of God until he is born again. – Michael Haigh
Just because an idea, concept, or a tangible entity is labeled as ‘the oldest,’ or ‘the first’ does not necessary give it any value or worth, nor does it bind it to the authority of truth. – Mary Haigh