Thomas Fuller Quotes

A man can preach no better than he prays.

We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.

I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it.

Faithful attendance at Church meetings brings blessings you can receive in no other way.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.

There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

It's like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf... most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

Being a Christian has not and does not come naturally or easy for me. I take that to be a good thing because I am sure that to be a Christian requires training that lasts a lifetime.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every Sunday and not just because you're supposed to. But because you enjoy going and listening to the Word and being excited about it.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.