Inspiring You to Look for the One

  • “The numbers are staggering, and they break your heart. More than 2 billion have never heard the name of Jesus, and 70,000 die each day without Christ.”

    — Alliance For The Unreached

  • “As my grandmother was passing away she suddenly looked up and said, ‘There’s Jesus.’ Then she was gone. Are you ready to stand before Jesus?”

    — Billy Graham, Chicago Crusade, 1962

  • “We are saved to serve; we are redeemed to reproduce spiritually; we are ‘fished out of the miry clay’ so that we, in turn, may become fishers of men.”

    — Billy Graham

  • “Jesus. You should seek nothing more, you should settle for nothing less. You need Jesus—not some creed, code, or cause. You don’t go beyond Jesus. You may go deeper into Jesus, but you’ll never go beyond Jesus. The table is set. Come and dine.”

    — Adrian Rogers

  • “If you receive Him, it will be well; if you reject Him and are lost, it will be terrible.”

    — D.L. Moody

  • When John Newton was nearing the finish line, he claimed that much of his memory was fading. “But I remember two things,” he wrote, “that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Savior.”

    — John Newton

  • “The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.”

    — Matt Redman

  • “It is Christ who pines when the poor are hungry; it is Christ who is repulsed when strangers are not welcome; it is Christ who suffers when rags fail to keep out the cold; it is Christ who is in anguish in the long-drawn illness; it is Christ who waits behind the prison doors.”

    — Archbishop William Temple (1628-1699)

  • “Let God have your life; He can do more with it than you can.”

    — D.L. Moody

  • “The gospel must be preached afresh and told anew to every generation since every generation has its own unique questions.”

    — Helmet Thielicke

  • “I praise You, Lord, for the incredible value You place on sinners! You do not passively wait for us to come to You. You actively, passionately seek us out of our wanderings and hiding places. Your pursuit is relentless. Nine out of ten is not good enough for You. 99 out of 100 is still unacceptable. You are not willing that any should perish.”

    — NIV Worship Bible

  • “Peter and John won the crippled beggar, and his transformed life led to the conversion of two thousand people! Like Jesus, the apostles took time for individuals.”

    — Warren Wiersbe

  • “Christ was sent not to mend wounded people or wake sleepy people or advise confused people or inspire bored people or spur on lazy people or educate ignorant people, but to raise dead people.”

    — Dane Ortlund

  • “Jesus was forsaken of the Father that we might never be forsaken.”

    — Warren Wiersbe

  • “Want of trust is at the root of almost all our sins and all our weaknesses; and how shall we escape it but by looking to Him and observing His faithfulness? How many estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources, and thus attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt! All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them.”

    — Hudson Taylor

  • “There are two sorts of prayer: personal and intercessory. The latter ordinarily occupies the lesser part of our time and energy. This may not be. Christ has opened the school of prayer specially to train intercessors for the great work of bringing down, by their faith and prayer, the blessings of His work and love on the world around.”

    – Andrew Murray

  • “All of the Father’s white-hot anger against my sin was poured out on the cross. Because of Jesus, the Father has no anger left for you and me.”

    — Joni Eareckson-Tada

  • “When God forgives and restores his people, he wants them to forget the failures of the past, witness for him in the present, and claim his promises for the future. Why should we remember that which God has forgotten?”

    — Warren Wiersbe

  • "In a world where the lines between right and wrong are becoming more and more blurred, where wrong has become right and right has become wrong, it is time for courage and boldness. It is far easier to let someone else take the risk, but I think we are all called to say to the Lord, 'Here I am, send me.' 'Looking for the One' is about exactly that."

    — Tom Lehman

  • "'Looking For The One' reminds us that the way to change the world is to start with one person at a time. But before looking for the one, we look to Jesus. Because Jesus is the only one who can change us and heal us, we go to Him first. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life!"

    — Rod Carew

  • "Go from 'Mission Impossible' to 'Mission Possible.' Join your Jesus in Looking for the One."

    — Ron Hutchcraft

  • “The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.”

    — Mark Twain

  • “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.”

    — William Arthur Ward

  • “It is not a question of God sending us to hell. In each of us, there is something growing, which will be hell unless it is nipped in the bud.”

    — C.S. Lewis

  • “Without Christ, you can do nothing, and you are nothing, and you have nothing. Come to Jesus as you are, and put your trust in him, and then all things are yours.”

    — Charles H. Spurgeon

  • “Jehovah’s gracious eye never looks on you in anger when he looks at you through Christ, for then He sees no sin. Though you still struggle with sin, you are always accepted in Christ, always blessed, and always dear to the Father’s heart.”

    — Charles H. Spurgeon

  • "The resurrection means that God has accepted and approves of Christ's work on the cross. Therefore He accepts and approves of us!"

    — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  • “The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.”

    — Corrie Ten Boom

  • “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time. And always start with the person nearest you.”

    — Mother Teresa

  • “God works as He wills to overcome our rebellion. Like the wind that blows through the trees, He can neither be seen nor directed. He touches the heart. He breathes through snowflakes. The point is, He does it. He calls people to Himself, conceiving the new life in the Spirit in the secret place of the soul.”

    — Chuck Colson

  • “The Holy Spirit will not let you be content in your blindness. He would not allow it for Paul, nor would He allow it for John Newton. Be assured He will not allow it for you. He longs to open the curtains and let in the light that will make your world sparkle with all the bright colors of paradise.”

    — David Jeremiah

  • “Lord, teach me to listen. The times are noisy, and my ears are weary with the thousand raucous sounds which continuously assault them. Give me the spirit of the boy Samuel when he said to Thee, ‘Speak, for Thy servant heareth.’ Let me hear Thee speaking in my heart. Let me get used to the sound of Thy voice, that its tones may be familiar when the sounds of earth die away and the only sound will be the music of Thy speaking voice. Amen.”

    — A.W. Tozer

  • “The world operates on vision. God’s people live by revelation.”

    — Henry Blackaby