84 Quotes by Jim Cymbala

O God, split the heavens and come down! Manifest yourself somehow. Do what only you can do.

The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The church is a spiritual organism fighting spiritual battles: only spiritual power can make it perform as God ordained.

The hardest part of faith is often simply to wait. And the trouble is, if we don’t, then we start to fix the problem ourselves – and that makes it worse. We complicate the situation to the point where it takes God much longer to fix it than if we had quietly waited for his working in the first place.

How is it that Christians today will pay $20 to hear the latest Christian artist in concert, but Jesus can’t draw a crowd?

Oh, how we need to wake up to the fact that the Holy Spirit’s blessing and power is the key to everything.

Can you imagine someone handing Peter a microphone on Sunday morning and whispering, “Okay, now, you’ve got twenty minutes. We have to get the people out of here promptly because the chariot races start at one o’clock”?

The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift up our hearts to God.

God is more powerful than anybody’s past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget – not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it.

When we sincerely turn to God, we will find that His church always moves forward, not backward.