Quotes from PT Forsyth

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

We touch the last reality directly in prayer.

Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us.

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

Prayer is not mere wishing. It is asking — with a will. . . . It is energy. We turn to an active Giver; therefore we go into action.

It was not the sorrow of the world that broke the heart of Christ, but its wickedness. He was equal to its sorrow ... He began by being the world's healer. But what broke him was its sin.

The only preaching which is up to date for every time is the preaching of this eternity, which is opened to us in the Bible alone — the eternal of holy love, grace and redemption, the eternal and immutable morality of saving grace for our indelible sin.