Top 40 R. A. Torrey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all pray.”

— R. A. Torrey

2. “The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.”

— R. A. Torrey

3. “Prayer can do anything that God can do.”

— R. A. Torrey

4. “When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.”

— R. A. Torrey

5. “The truly wise man is he who believes the Bible against the opinions of any man. If the Bible says one thing, and any body of men says another, the wise man will decide, “This book is the Word of him who cannot lie”.”

— R. A. Torrey

6. “The one who is truly born again will love the Word of God.”

— R. A. Torrey

7. “Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.”

— R. A. Torrey

8. “If loving God with all our heart and soul and might is the greatest commandment, then it follows that not loving Him that way is the greatest sin.”

— R. A. Torrey

9. “God’s Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.”

— R. A. Torrey

10. “If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.”

— R. A. Torrey

11. “Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.”

— R. A. Torrey

12. “Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.”

— R. A. Torrey

13. “Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.”

— R. A. Torrey

14. “All that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of prayer. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do everything, prayer is omnipotent.”

— R. A. Torrey

15. “I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.”

— R. A. Torrey

16. “Do not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God, and only the Bible is the Word of God.”

— R. A. Torrey

17. “To win men to acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord is the only reason Christians are left in this world.”

— R. A. Torrey

18. “The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man.”

— R. A. Torrey

19. “Worship is adoring contemplation of God.”

— R. A. Torrey

20. “I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.”

— R. A. Torrey

21. “We must know the power of the Blood if we are to know the power of God. Our knowing experimentally the power of the Word, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the power of prayer is dependent upon our knowing the power of the Blood of Christ.”

— R. A. Torrey

22. “We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.”

— R. A. Torrey

23. “We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.”

— R. A. Torrey

24. “Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.”

— R. A. Torrey

25. “If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.”

— R. A. Torrey

26. “Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they enjoy. In this way they get no knowledge of the Bible as a whole. They miss altogether many of the most important phases of Bible truth.”

— R. A. Torrey

27. “We are not saved by denying self, or taking up our cross, or doing anything else, we are saved by simply believing in Jesus.”

— R. A. Torrey

28. “God has not changed; and His ear is just as quick to hear the voice of real prayer, and His hand is just as long and strong to save; as it ever was.”

— R. A. Torrey

29. “When the perceptive child of God stops to weigh the meaning of these words, then notes the connection in which they are found, he or she is driven to say, I must pray, pray, pray. I must put all my energy and heart into prayer. Whatever else I do, I must pray.”

— R. A. Torrey

30. “Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God’s listening ears.”

— R. A. Torrey

31. “The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary.”

— R. A. Torrey

32. “Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.”

— R. A. Torrey

33. “Ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are merely playing at Bible study; and therefore ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are mere weaklings, when they might be giants, both in their Christian life and in their service.”

— R. A. Torrey

34. “To have as one’s ever-present friend, and to be conscious that one has as his ever-present friend, the Holy Spirit and to surrender one’s life in all it’s departments entirely to His control – this is true Christian living.”

— R. A. Torrey

35. “We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work, is not to get persons to join the church or to give up their bad habits or to do anything else than this, to accept Jesus Christ, as their Saviour.”

— R. A. Torrey

36. “Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit himself. A frequent source of error and fanaticism about the work of the Holy Spirit is the attempt to study and understand His work without, first of all, coming to know Him as a person.”

— R. A. Torrey

37. “Just as one gets the firstfruits of spiritual salvation in the life that now is, so we get the firstfruits of our physical salvation in the life that now is.”

— R. A. Torrey

38. “The life of entire surrender is a joyous life all along the way.”

— R. A. Torrey

39. “Those who truly believe on Jesus Christ are saved from all fear.”

— R. A. Torrey

40. “I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from any hope of conversion, I prayed on.”

— R. A. Torrey

41. “There must be, in any complete revelation of God’s mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.”

— R. A. Torrey

42. “The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.”

— R. A. Torrey

43. “If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; but if you make but a little of Christ, Christ will make but a little of you.”

— R. A. Torrey

44. “There are two ways of reaching the people. One way is to invite them to come to you, the other way is to go to them.”

— R. A. Torrey

45. “The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty “ougthness” of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God...”

— R. A. Torrey

46. “Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.”

— R. A. Torrey

47. “It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.”

— R. A. Torrey

48. “Tell me your doctrine of the Fall and I will tell you the state of your theology.”

— R. A. Torrey