All Time Most Famous Quotes By A. B. Simpson

A. B. Simpson (1843–1919) was a Canadian preacher, theologian, and founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), a Protestant denomination focused on missionary work and spiritual renewal. Born in Prince Edward Island, Simpson grew up in a devout Presbyterian family and later trained for the ministry at Knox College in Toronto.

A. B. Simpson Quotes

1. “Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.”
— A. B. Simpson

2. “Warning: we may become so enamored with God’s good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.”
— A. B. Simpson

3. “The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.”
— A. B. Simpson

4. “Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.”
— A. B. Simpson

5.”Aggressive Christianity is the world’s greatest need.”
— A. B. Simpson

6. “You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience.”
— A. B. Simpson

7.”Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active, and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty. It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.”
— A. B. Simpson

8. “Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.”
— A. B. Simpson

9. “God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.”
— A. B. Simpson

10. “The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!”
— A. B. Simpson

11. “Before we can speak God’s message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.”
— A. B. Simpson

12. “When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances, or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.”
— A. B. Simpson

13. “All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.”
— A. B. Simpson

14. “Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care—all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.”
— A. B. Simpson

15. “Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others and for the kingdom of God? It will relieve you of a thousand cares.”
— A. B. Simpson

16. “The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.”
— A. B. Simpson

17. “When God wants to bring more power into our lives, He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction.”
— A. B. Simpson

18. “A friend … said, ‘You were healed by faith.’ ‘Oh, no,’ I said, ‘I was healed by Christ.’ What is the difference? There is a great difference. There came a time when even faith seemed to come between me and Jesus. I thought I should have to work up the faith, so I labored to get the faith. At last, I thought I had it; that if I put my whole weight upon it, it would hold. I said, when I thought I had got the faith, ‘Heal me.’ I was trusting in myself, in my own heart, in my own faith. I was asking the Lord to do something for me because of something in me, not because of something in Him.”
— A. B. Simpson

19. “One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!”
— A. B. Simpson

20. “The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.”
— A. B. Simpson

21. “One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.”
— A. B. Simpson

22. “God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”
— A. B. Simpson

23. “I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord’s coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”
— A. B. Simpson

24. “God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.”
— A. B. Simpson

25. “As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.”
— A. B. Simpson

26. “One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.”
— A. B. Simpson

27. “There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.”
— A. B. Simpson

28. “We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us, and possess us forever.”
— A. B. Simpson

29. “This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”
— A. B. Simpson

30. “We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world, and conquers fear of death.”
— A. B. Simpson

31. “Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.”
— A. B. Simpson

32. “Forget yourself and live for others, for it is more blessed to give than to receive.”
— A. B. Simpson

33. “There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.”
— A. B. Simpson

35. “Once I tried to use Him, now He uses me.”
— A. B. Simpson

36. “May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.”
— A. B. Simpson

37. “Difficulties and obstacles are God’s challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus.”
— A. B. Simpson

38. “When I cannot understand my Father’s leading, and it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, ‘God is working, God is faithful—Only wait.'”
— A. B. Simpson

39. “There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer…the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.”
— A. B. Simpson

40. “A divided heart loses both worlds.”
— A. B. Simpson

41. “Prayer is the link that connects us with God.”
— A. B. Simpson