Quotes about Means

We must consult our means rather than our wishes.

One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer. However the influence of the Holy Spirit may be set at nought, and run down by many, it will be found upon trial, that all means which we can use, without it, will be ineffectual. If a temple is raised for God in the heathen world, it will not be by might, nor by power, nor by the authority of the magistrate, or the eloquence of the orator; but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts.

What openings of providence do we wait for? We can neither expect to be transported into the heathen world without ordinary means, nor to be endowed with the gift of tongues, &c. when we arrive there. These would not be providential interpositions, but miraculous ones. Where a command exists nothing can be necessary to render it binding but a removal of those obstacles which render obedience impossible, and these are removed already.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means

Go for the purposes of God, and the means to fulfill them will follow.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.

Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.