The man who thinks he can know the Word of God by mere intellectual study is greatly deceived. Spiritual truth is spiritually discerned.
– Samuel Chadwick
Scripture | Truth | Discernment
Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God.
– Samuel Chadwick
HolinessFire
Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize, and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but it takes heart to comfort.
– Samuel Chadwick
Compassion | Comfort | Redemption
Destitute of the Fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing Fire, nothing else matters.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Holy Spirit | Fire
The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Holy Spirit | Failure
The Church is the Body of Christ, and the Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. He fills the Body, directs its movements, controls its members, inspires its wisdom, supplies it’s strength. He guides into truth, sanctifies its agents, and empowers for witnessing. The Spirit has never abdicated His authority nor relegated His power.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Holy Spirit | Authority | Witnessing
Intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force.
– Samuel Chadwick
Prayer | Righteousness
The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
– Samuel Chadwick
Prayer
The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.
– Samuel Chadwick
Prayer
Let no man join us who is afraid, and we want none but those who are saved, sanctified and aflame with the fire of the Holy Spirit.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Holy Spirit | Sanctification | Fire
The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.
– Samuel Chadwick
PrayerBrokenness
Prayer is the acid test of devotion.
– Samuel Chadwick
Prayer
Prayer is the acid test of devotion.
– Samuel Chadwick
Prayer
Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Holy Spirit
No man is uneducated who knows the Bible, and no one is wise who is ignorant of its teachings.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Bible | Ignorance
The Holy Spirit cannot conquer the world with unbelief, nor can He save the world with a worldly Church. He calls for a crusade, a campaign, and an adventure of saving passion. For this enterprise He wants a separated, sanctified and sacrificial people.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Holy Spirit | Holiness | Passion
Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.
– Samuel Chadwick
Prayer | Power
Hurry is the death of prayer.
– Samuel Chadwick
Prayer
In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.
– Samuel Chadwick
Prayer
The Church always fails at the point of self-confidence.
– Samuel Chadwick
Character | Self-confidence
True prayer is a lonely business.
– Samuel Chadwick
Prayer
The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.
– Samuel Chadwick
Prayer
The Church is the Body of Christ begotten, unified, and indwelt by the Spirit, but forgetting the Spirit, men wrangle over limbs, functions, and orders. The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Holy Spirit
The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
– Samuel Chadwick
Satan | Prayer
Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition.
– Samuel Chadwick
Truth | Philosophy
God the Holy Ghost calls for crusaders. How many ministers would be in church if it were not their job? The answer will be found in the number who never go to the job that is outside.
– Samuel Chadwick
Preaching | The Holy Spirit
A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.
– Samuel Chadwick
Prayer
The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost, and things will get no better till we get back to His realized presence and power.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Holy Spirit
Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Holy Spirit
The Christian religion begins in a New Birth in the power of the Spirit. It is developed under His guidance, and sustained by His presence; but ignoring the Spirit, it becomes a matter of education and evolution.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Holy Spirit | Politics | Conversion