Top 50 G. Campbell Morgan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

2. “We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

3. “God is always at war with sin.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

4. “Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

5. “The supreme need in every hour of difficulty and distress is for a fresh vision of God. Seeing Him, all else takes on proper perspective and proportion.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

6. “The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

7. “A man’s concept of God creates his attitude towards the hour in which he lives.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

8. “The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

9. “Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God’s triumph. Prayer is life striving and toiling everywhere and always for that ultimate victory.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

10. “Man is created for the glory of God.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

11. “If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you’re serving in the wrong place.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

12. “What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

13. “The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

14. “God has foreordained the works to which He has called you. He has been ahead of you preparing the place to which you are coming and manipulating all the resources of the universe in order that the work you do may be a part of His whole great and gracious work.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

15. “The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God’s free man.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

16. “The man who preaches the cross must be a crucified man.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

17. “The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

18. “Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.”

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19. “The world hates Christian people if they can see God in them.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

20. “The year is made up of minutes. Let these be watched as having been dedicated to God. It is in the sanctification of the small that hallowing of the large is secure.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

21. “The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God’s Spirit.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

22. “When amusement is necessary to get people to listen to the gospel there will be failure. This is not the method of Christ. To form an organization and provide all kinds of entertainment for young people, in order that they may come to the Bible classes, is to be foredoomed to failure.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

23. “How would you like to live with somebody who was everlastingly grieving your heart by his conduct?”

— G. Campbell Morgan

24. “To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

25. “To the individual believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit there is granted the direct impression of the Spirit of God on the spirit of man, imparting the knowledge of His will in matters of the smallest and greatest importance. This has to be sought and waited for.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

26. “The whole life story of Jesus, on the human side, is the life story of One who lived by faith.”

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27. “The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence of his infinite love.”

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28. “The purpose of God and the power of God is available for every man.”

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29. “The capacity for tears is the last demonstration of greatness.”

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30. “To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.”

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31. “The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

32. “You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.”

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33. “There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

34. “Do not let us imagine that we can take into our fellowship and enlist under one banner men who simply affirm truth about Jesus, unless in their own lives there is an absolute loyalty to the Lord Christ.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

35. “Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men “ought always to pray, and not to faint.” How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

36. “Men ought not to faint because men ought to pray.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

37. “If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

38. “No man lived a more strong and beautiful life than did John Wesley, and his view of death was that whenever it came he would be found at his duty; and the transition from that duty to heaven’s service would be a natural one. Instead of death, let the Lord be expected; and the true attitude of life will be that of quiet pursuit of duty and constant readiness to greet Him.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

39. “Is there any phrase more startling than ” the wrath of the Lamb‴′ I think that if we had desired to describe wrath figuratively we should have written, the wrath of the ” lion,” but therein we should have failed. It is the wrath of the Lamb which is terrible, the wrath of One whose very heart and nature are love and gentleness. Wrath kindled by love is the fiercest flame that burns. p78.”

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40. “It was not that they hoped to escape another judgment which might be coming upon them; but they desired solidarity. Today we hear a great deal about the “solidarity of humanity”; and the endeavor to secure it by putting God out of His own world is a very old piece of history. Apart from Him, the only really cohesive force for humanity is absent, and confusion must be the result.”

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41. “So that the one work of the Spirit of God is to teach things concerning Christ, and to bring to remembrance and understanding the words which fell from His lips.”

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42. “Gather up these four results. Christians are not orphans, and therefore not desolate. Peace is theirs – peace which Christ gives, as the world cannot give, through the ministry of a Person ever present. In the strength of that peace they become His witnesses, because they have a perpetual vision of the Lord.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

43. “When men are tired of hearing and meditating upon the things of God, the fault lies within; in the background there is greed, and behind that sacrilege, and behind that again profanity. Let us search our hearts, and find whether the things of God have become merely a duty, a weariness, that we would relinquish if we dare, and to which we only hold for the sake of appearances.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

44. “God is asking for that abandonment of man to Himself which says, “We pour all at Thy feet, and if Thou shouldst crown us, we would rejoice, but only that a crown was ours to cast at the feet of Christ.” When men reach that point, greed has gone out of their service.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

45. “This is the burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. He came to warn them that a day was coming, burning as an oven, wherein all stubble should be destroyed, because God loved them. Every message of coming judgment or blessing is a message of love, – whether spoken in words that sound hard, and harsh, and severe, revealing to them their true condition, or in words of tenderness, and comfort and wooing pathos.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

46. “I sometimes think that we have an idea that our song and presence in heaven will add something to God. Never! You cannot add to God. No tinge of brightness can you put upon the beauty of His character, no greater fullness of love can you give. How then can I glorify Him? God is glorified in the perfect realization on the part of His people of all the gracious purposes of His love for them.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

47. “Let us always confess when we cannot understand His methods that it is because we are finite, and He is infinite.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

48. “The highest function of humanity is belief, that activity of spirit that proceeds upon the pathway of reason, until it comes to some great promontory, and then spreads its wings, and upon the basis of its earlier journeying, takes eternity into its grasp.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

49. “Men hold two views of what happiness consists in, viz, having, and doing. To possess much, or to do some great thing, constitutes the sum of human blessedness according to popular theory.”

— G. Campbell Morgan

50. “Presently there came along a woman who was a widow, and she dropped in two mites. Listen to the Master of the treasury, – the One to whom the gifts are brought. What did He say? “That woman has done well”? He said something far more sweeping than that. Did He say, “She has cast in more than any man”? No! but “More than they all.” In effect. He said, “Bring all the gifts that have fallen into the treasury today, and put them together, and these mites outweigh them all in the balances of God.”

— G. Campbell Morgan