John Nelson Darby Quotes

the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future; and (3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.

It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin; he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are empty and vain. How shall he, then, mortify sin that has not the Spirit? A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

There is no limit to what God can do through us if we are a yielded and purified people.

I think one of the most rewarding experiences in life is to see people come to Christ and make lifestyle changes. When that happens, you definitely see God behind it. This year we've seen eight students make first-time decisions for Christ and when I see that, it's a great feeling. I'm really thankful that God is changing somebody, or sometimes he's changing me.

If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.

The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.

None shall be saved by Christ but those only who work out their own salvation while God is working in them by His truth and His Holy Spirit. We cannot do without God; and God will not do without us.

Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be "in Christ," it is for Christ to be in us.

Our assignment has never been about what we can do for God, but what can God do through us.

If we open our hearts to God, He has promised to work within us.

The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.

God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

Open your heart and invite God into every circumstance because when God enters the scene, miracles happen.

When you release your faith in uncommon ways, youll see God do uncommon things.

In Christ, it's never too late, you're never too old... it's never "too anything" for Him to work positive change in your life.

When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.

Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.

What God does, He does well.

Let us pray God that He would root out of our hearts every thing of our own planting, and set out there, with His own hands, the tree of life, bearing all manner of fruits.

God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.