Top 60 F.B. Meyer Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Joy is peace dancing and peace is joy at rest.”

— F.B. Meyer

2. “The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.”

— F.B. Meyer

3. “Watch the morning watch. Do not see the face of man until you have seen the face of God. Before you enter on the day with its temptations, look up into His face and hide His Word in your heart.”

— F.B. Meyer

4. “Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.”

— F.B. Meyer

5. “The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.”

— F.B. Meyer

6. “Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.”

— F.B. Meyer

7. “When we want to know God’s will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.”

— F.B. Meyer

8. “I can’t say I’m willing, Lord, but I’m willing to be made willing.”

— F.B. Meyer

9. “God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.”

— F.B. Meyer

10. “As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.”

— F.B. Meyer

11. “Consecration is only possible when we give up our will about EVERYTHING.”

— F.B. Meyer

12. “There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he finds a rock beneath him.”

— F.B. Meyer

13. “Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear.”

— F.B. Meyer

14. “Go on day by day fulfilling the task of the day, and leaving the results with God.”

— F.B. Meyer

15. “Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ!”

— F.B. Meyer

16. “Though justification costs us nothing but the sacrifice of our pride, it has cost Christ His blood.”

— F.B. Meyer

17. “If you’re not willing to give up everything for Christ, are you willing to be made willing?”

— F.B. Meyer

18. “God does not fill with His Holy Spirit those who believe in the fullness of the Spirit, or those who desire Him, but those who obey Him.”

— F.B. Meyer

19. “The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God’s providence.”

— F.B. Meyer

20. “The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.”

— F.B. Meyer

21. “There is nothing the Church of today needs so much as Spiritual Power; and there is nothing which we can have so easily, if only we are prepared to pay the price.”

— F.B. Meyer

22. “How many of us, who are engaged in the Lord’s holy service, are secretly cherishing some proud purpose of excelling other men, of making a name, of securing money and applause.”

— F.B. Meyer

23. “The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence.”

— F.B. Meyer

24. “God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that, realizes that he is in the midst, that takes heed to the assurance of his loving presence, will be quiet in the midst of alarm.”

— F.B. Meyer

25. “There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.”

— F.B. Meyer

26. “How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may better appreciate the completeness of his salvation!”

— F.B. Meyer

27. “The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.”

— F.B. Meyer

28. “The spirit of the gospel is in absolute disagreement with the spirit of the world.”

— F.B. Meyer

29. “Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.”

— F.B. Meyer

30. “Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.”

— F.B. Meyer

31. “Consecration is not the act of our feelings but of our WILL.”

— F.B. Meyer

32. “The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes.”

— F.B. Meyer

33. “God has a purpose in every life, and when the soul is completely yielded and acquiescent, He will certainly realize it. Blessed is he who has never thwarted the working of the divine ideal.”

— F.B. Meyer

34. “He is the richest man in the esteem of the world who has gotten the most. He is the richest man in the esteem of Heaven who has given the most.”

— F.B. Meyer

35. “There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it.”

— F.B. Meyer

36. “We must be still before God.”

— F.B. Meyer

37. “God is love; to do his will is to scatter love in handfuls of blessing on a weary world.”

— F.B. Meyer

38. “If I had my ministry over again, I would devote far more time to the ministry of comfort and encouragement.”

— F.B. Meyer

39. “To be strong, to steer straight onward, to dare to praise God, to sit alone and keep silence because He has laid it upon us, to put our mouths in the dust, if so be there may be hope – here is fortitude indeed.”

— F.B. Meyer

40. “Christ’s work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.”

— F.B. Meyer

41. “We never get so near God as when we plead for others.”

— F.B. Meyer

42. “When a man is right with God, God will freely use him.”

— F.B. Meyer

43. “The one thing that hinders God is our unbelief.”

— F.B. Meyer

44. “I believe that if there is one thing which pierces the Master’s heart with unutterable grief, it is not the world’s iniquity, but the Church’s indifferences.”

— F.B. Meyer

45. “Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that He is there between you and your difficulty, and what baffles you will flee before Him, as clouds before the gale.”

— F.B. Meyer

46. “The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.”

— F.B. Meyer

47. “What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on which we build.”

— F.B. Meyer

48. “When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe that the Word is the wire along which the voice of God will certainly come to you if the heart is hushed and the attention fixed.”

— F.B. Meyer

49. “Yours will be the wings of an eagle’s flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy – in meditation, in prayer, and especially in the use of the Bible.”

— F.B. Meyer

50. “Let us ask the Spirit of Truth to set a watch upon the door of our lips, allowing nothing to pass out on which he cannot set his seal. Whatever we do, in word as well as deed, let us do all in the name and for the glory of Jesus.”

— F.B. Meyer