R.A. Torrey Quotes

• If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; But it you make but little of Christ, He will make but little of you.

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• Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.

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• Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.

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• God’s Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.

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• I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from any hope of conversion, I prayed on.

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• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

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• To win men to acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord is the only reason Christians are left in this world.

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• Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God’s listening ears.

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• Worship is adoring contemplation of God.

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R.A. Torrey (9)

Birth:	28th January, 1856
Death:	26th October, 1928
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Educator, Evangelist, Writer

About

Torrey was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on 28 January 1856. He graduated from Yale University in 1875 and Yale Divinity School in 1878. Following graduation, Torrey became a Congregational minister in Garrettsville, Ohio, in 1878. The following year he married Clara Smith, and the Torreys had five children.

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