Harold Lindsell Quotes

You don't see many people crying over the wrong they do to God every time His word is neglected or when one willfully sins.

Lack of prayer says you've brought into the lie that life is manageable and you've got everything under control

Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows them to have a tremendous fall.

Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way."

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and perils inexpressible and consequences untold are their unhappy heritage.

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.

Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

Prayerless souls are Christless souls, Christless souls are Graceless souls and Graceless souls shall soon be damned souls. See your peril, you that neglect altogether the blessed privilege of prayer! You are in the bonds of iniquity, you are in the gall of bitterness. God deliver you, for Hisname's sake!

How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God.

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

I didn't listen to executives.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

There is no obedience due to sinful commands…

Tell them to fly.

… looking and not seeing things was a great sin.

God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.

Momma told me, 'I'm going to town. Don't touch the trash in the backyard,' because we used to burn our trash. So I'm going to do mama a favor. I light the trash and go back inside to watch Ohio State and LSU play. And something said, 'You know what, at halftime, go check on it.' And fire is about 8 feet from the back door.

The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.