28 Quotes by Donald S. Whitney

So while we cannot be godly without the practice of the Disciplines, we can practice the Disciplines without being godly if we see them as ends and not means.

I’ve seen Christians who are faithful to the church of God, who frequently demonstrate genuine enthusiasm for the things of God, and who are committed to the preaching of the Word of God, yet who trivialize their effectiveness for the kingdom of God through lack of discipline.

So basically what you are doing is taking words that originated in the heart and mind of God and circulating them through your heart and mind back to God. By this means his words become the wings of your prayers.

If you are a Christian, two people live in your body – you and the Holy Spirit... And the Holy Spirit is not passive within you.

The people of God do not serve Him in order to be forgiven but because we are forgiven.

When there is little awareness of real need, there is little real prayer.

Many of the great movements of God can be traced to a small group of people He called together to begin praying.

The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.

I maintain that people – truly born-again, genuinely Christian people – often do not pray simply because they do not feel like it. And the reason they don’t feel like praying is that when they do pray, they tend to say the same old things about the same old things.