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1 " A man can preach the truth. He can be perfectly sound in doctrine, but if there is no love in his heart going out to those whom he addresses, and if he is doing it only professionally, the apostle says he is only sounding brass. "
― Dwight L. Moody , A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like
2 " But no one can be a true worker for God and a successful winner of souls without love. "
3 " drunkards need anyone to condemn them? There is no one in the wide world who can condemn them as they condemn themselves. What they need is sympathy − tenderness, gentleness, and kindness. "
4 " I believe that for every spiritual difficulty there is some promise in the Word of God to meet that difficulty. But if you keep your feelings and your troubles all locked up, how are you to be helped? I might stand and preach to you for thirty days without touching on your particular difficulty. But a twenty-minute private conversation can clear away all your doubts and troubles. "
5 " This earth, if we are Christians, is not our home. It is up in heaven with the Lord. "
6 " So let’s not be discouraged. Instead, let’s use all these wonderful opportunities and honor God by expecting great things. If we do, we won’t be disappointed. God is ready and willing to work, if we are ready and willing to let Him and to be used by Him. "
7 " Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not love, it profits me nothing (vv. 1-3). "
8 " finding of some hidden treasure and bringing it back to the light. "
9 " God also wants His children to serve Him because of something other than duty. He doesn’t want us to feel it is difficult to do His will. "
10 " As I said before, love is the key that will unlock every human heart. No man or woman in all this land is so low and so degraded that you can’t reach them with love, gentleness, and kindness. It may take years, but it can be done. "
11 " Let’s believe for them, if they won’t believe for themselves. There may be some who are reading this book who don’t believe in the Bible, or in the gospel of the Son of God. Let us bring them to Christ in the arms of our faith. "
12 " What’s the problem throughout Christendom today in connection with Sunday school? It is that so many drop through the Sunday school net when they grow up to the age of sixteen or so, and that’s the last we see of them. Many young men who were once Sunday school students are now in our prisons. The cause of that is that so few teachers believe the children can be converted when they are young. They don’t work to bring them to a knowledge of Christ, but are content only to go on sowing the seed. Let a teacher resolve that with God’s help, he won’t rest until he sees his whole class brought into the kingdom of God. If he determines to do this, he will see signs and wonders inside of thirty days. "