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Peter Forsyth, an individual active in the late 19th to early 20th century, whose profession remains unknown. His life was shrouded in mystery, and despite limited information about his career and achievements, his historical significance cannot be overlooked.

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“To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood.”

Ends Dignity Loyalty Manhood

Book:The Taste of Death and the Life of Grace

Source: The Taste of Death and the Life of Grace

“The greatest element in life is not what occupies most of its time, else sleep would stand high in the scale. Nor is it what engrosses most of its thought, else money would be very high. The two or three hours of worship and preaching weekly has perhaps been the greatest signal influence on English life. Half an hour of prayer, morning or evening, every day, may be a greater element in shaping our course than all our conduct and all our thought.”

May Two Would Be Life Is Three Courses Hours Prayer Sleep Half Morning Greater Influence Elements Worship Scales Evening Preaching Our Thoughts Signals

Author:Peter Forsyth

“Prayer is the atmosphere of revelation, in the strict and central sense of that word. It is the climate in which God's manifestation bursts open into inspiration.”

Inspiration Prayer Climate Atmosphere Manifestation Revelations Strict Intercession

Book:The Soul of Prayer

Source: The Soul of Prayer

“Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.”

Prayer Effort Terrible Battle Conflict Weapons Conscious Gods Will Earnest Our Prayers

Author:Peter Forsyth

“All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.”

Book:The Soul of Prayer

Source: The Soul of Prayer

“We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.”

Knows Sometimes Heaven Prayer Answers One Day Refusal Truest

Book:The Soul of Prayer

Source: The Soul of Prayer

“Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.”

Long Prayer Praying Cease Chiefs Rejected

Book:The Soul of Prayer

Source: The Soul of Prayer

“The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.”

Christ Sin Christianity Blood Sorrow Wrath Scourge Sins Not

Author:Peter Forsyth

“The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.”

Church Universal Locals Local Church

Author:Peter Forsyth

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

Firsts Soul Masters Duty

Book:Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848-1921) Director of Souls

Source: Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848-1921) Director of Souls

“It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.”

Ifs Choices Spread Missions Missionary Our Choices Missions In Life Great Missionary Mission Trip

Author:Peter Forsyth

“People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care spent on a contract; but they have taken current suggestions in a dreamy and hypnotised way. They will not attend, they will not force themselves to attend, gravely to the gravest things.... they read everything in a vagrant, browsing fashion. They turn on the most serious subjects the holiday, seaside, newspaper habit of mind”

“The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men.”

Men Christian Religion Prayer Loving God Mighty God

Author:Peter Forsyth

“If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.”

Ifs Christian Religion Prayer

Book:Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848-1921) Director of Souls

Source: Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848-1921) Director of Souls

“Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case of the truth, that all duty is a gift, every call on us a blessing, and that the task we often find a burden is really a boon?”

Mean Doe Christian Religion Prayer Cases Grace Special Duty Blessing Tasks Burden Conquest Boon

Book:The Soul of Prayer

Source: The Soul of Prayer

“Our great need is not ardour to save man but courage to face God - courage to face God with our soul as it is, and with our Saviour as He is; to face God always thus, and so to win the power which saves and services man more than any other power can. We can never fully say "My brother!" till we have heartily said "My God!", and we can never heartily say "My God!" till we have humbly said "My Guilt!" That is the root of moral reality, of personal religion.”

Men Needs Said Soul Reality Christian Faces Religion Winning Prayer Moral Brother Roots Guilt My Brother Saviour

Author:Peter Forsyth

“Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.”

Christian Religion Prayer Relation

Author:Peter Forsyth

“It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him.”

Christ Forget Active

Author:Peter Forsyth

About the Author

Born: 1848
Died: 1921
Known for: Author
Quotes: 18

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