Malachi Kirby Quotes

Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.

We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

The scriptures were one of the ways God spoke to me - even when I was a child - about my needs, my situation, and my life. They still are. Since our needs change over a lifetime, God has different things to tell us at different times.

If I cannot add to my own low level of understanding, I could ill afford to try to raise that of others, seeing that it belongs to our Creator and Lord to give much or little.

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.

I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.

I've always said that God will somehow enlighten me.

Once God puts something in your heart - you know, God talks to everyone different.

God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.

The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.

But man's eyes are blind through sin, and he can discern no part of God's truth till the Spirit opens them. Inner illumination, leading directly as it does to a deep, inescapable conviction, is thus fundamental to the Spirit's work as a teacher.

The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.

The plans of God are only revealed in the presence of God.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject.

There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.