I love reading either biographies or autobiographies of great men and women of God -  both of our times and of times gone by. I also love reading and looking up quotations by them. I have put together some great inspirational quotes by some very inspirational people of God. If you don't know who they are, then google them to find out. I hope to put a short description of each brother or sister as I get time.

Feel free to add to these as you find any...

Quotes by Oswald Chambers

“I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.”

“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

“It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God’s work in our own way.”

“You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.”

“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.”

“When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.”

“The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.”

“Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.”

“Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.”

“When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, ''I can't.''”

Quotes by Hudson Taylor

(He took the Gospel to the Chinese - he was an incredible man of God and if you can find a book called Hudson and Maria  - it is a wonderful read)

“I have found there are three stages to every great work of God: first it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.”

"Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all."

"If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life."

"Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth."

"Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with God." 

"Guide me; O Lord; in all the changes and varieties of this world; that in all things that shall happen; I may have an evenness and tranquility of spirit; that my soul may be wholly resigned to thy divine will and pleasure. "

Quotes by Charles H Spurgeon

“When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within”

“As sure as God puts His children in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them”

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”

“The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.”

“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”

“Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength”

Quotes by Paul Washer:

Quotes by John Wesley

“Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.”

“Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees”

The best of it is, God is with us.”

“When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me”

“Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that ''God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself',' but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.”

“The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.”

“The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities”

A W Tozer

“What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.”

“The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.”

“To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.”

“No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.”

“One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.”

“God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.”

Quotes by Rev Andrew Murray

“We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.”

“A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly, to stand perfect and complete in all the will of God, is the only true spirit of Bible study.”

Quotes by George Muller

“The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.”

“I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.”

“If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.”

“The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.”

“A servant of God has but one Master.”

Quotes by David Livingstone

“If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.”

“Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!”

The doctor's brother Charles, in America, wrote him, urging him to come to that land of opportunity. This called forth his famous reply: "I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!"

Quotes by David Brainerd

(he took the Gospel to the Indians of North America)

"This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome. ...I cared not how or where I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls for Christ."

"Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!"

"I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God."

"It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all."