James O. Fraser famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third places and teaching the fourth.
-- James O. Fraser

#Prayer #Teaching #Thinking
I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition.Â He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.
-- James O. Fraser

#Sailing #Missionary #Would Be
Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.
-- James O. Fraser

#Missionary #Done #Knees
I believe it will only be known on the last day how much has been accomplished in overseas missions by the prayers of earnest believers at home.
-- James O. Fraser

#Prayer #Believe #Home
Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.
-- James O. Fraser

#Cutting #Knives #Trying
I do not intend to be one of those who bemoan little results, while resting in the faithfulness of God. My cue is to take hold of the faithfulness of God and USE THE MEANS necessary to secure big results.
-- James O. Fraser

#Mean #Use #Littles
The aim of Satanic power is to cut off communication with God. To accomplish this aim he deludes the soul with a sense of defeat, covers him with a thick cloud of darkness, depresses and oppresses the spirit, which in turn hinders prayer and leads to unbelief - thus destroying all power.
-- James O. Fraser

#Depressing #Prayer #Communication
The enemy is delighted to have us so occupied incessantly with secondary and trivial concerns, as to keep us from attacking and resisting in the true spirit of the conflict.
-- James O. Fraser

#Enemy #Spirit #Conflict
My mistake has too often been that of too much haste. But it is not the people's way to hurry, nor is it God's way either. Hurry means worry, and worry effectually drives the peace of God from the heart.
-- James O. Fraser

#Mistake #Heart #Mean

Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.
When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do; when we rely upon eloquence, we get what eloquence can do. And so on. But when we rely upon prayer, we get what God can do.
What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

James O. Fraser famous quotes

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