21 Quotes by S. D. Gordon

Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.

Shoes divide men into three classes. Some men wear their father’s shoes. They make no decisions of their own. Some are unthinkingly shod by the crowd. The strong man is his own cobbler. He insists on making his own choices. He walks in his own shoes.

It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.

Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.

The way from God to a human heart is through a human heart.

The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.

One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.

God’s greatest agency; man’s greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.

If we lose the spirit of ‘go,’ we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead church. It will die of heart failure.