A. B. Simpson Quotes

A. B. Simpson Quotes

A.B. Simpson was a healer before healing programs became very popular. God used him in awe-inspiring ways to heal the sick. These A.B. Simpson quotes provide us with an insight into his feelings toward God and to those suffering by illness.

Albert Benjamin Simpson, also called A. B. Simpson, was a Canadian preacher and theologian. He also wrote and the founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, an evangelical Protestant congregation that focuses on global evangelism.

 "Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen.  The opened ear comes before the opened mouth." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others and for the kingdom of God? It will relieve you of a thousand cares." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!" ~ A. B. Simpson

 "May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?" ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Once I tried to use Him, now He uses me." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Prayer is the link that connects us with God." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling." ~ A. B. Simpson

"When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "It is not the part of faith to question, but to obey." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "If God's Word is not absolutely and completely true, it is too weak a cable to fix our anchorage and guarantee our eternal peace." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart." ~ A. B. Simpson

 "Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need." ~ A. B. Simpson