Top 8 Quotes by Adoniram Judson Gordon

There is more you can do after you pray, but there is nothing you can do until you pray.

There is more you can do after you pray, but there is nothing you can do until you pray.

Praying, Can Do

Not simply the righteousness of our Saviour, not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put on as a garment. The Lord Himself is our vesture. Every Christian is not only a Christ bearer, but a Christ wearer. We are so to enter into Him by communion, to be so endued with His presence, and imbued with His Spirit that men shall see Him when they behold us, as they see our garments when they look upon our bodies.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

Christian, Character, Men

Adoniram Judson Gordon (1897). “Yet Speaking: A Collection of Addresses”

The Holy Spirit, not the pope, is the vicar of Christ on earth.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

Earth, Spirit, Christ

A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

Heart, Son, Affection

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 396), 1895.

It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

Christian, Light, Fruit

Whenever, in any century, whether in a single heart or in a company of believers, there has been a fresh effusion of the Spirit, there has followed inevitably a fresh endeavor in the work of evangelizing the world.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

Heart, World, Spirit

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

Skeletons, Grace, Doctrine

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 194), 1895.