Category: Writings by R. A. Torrey
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The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 2, The Deity of the Holy Spirit.
In the preceding chapter we have seen clearly that the Holy Spirit is a Person. But what sort of a Person is He? Is He a finite person or an infinite person? Is He God? This question also is plainly answered in the Bible. There are in the Scriptures of…
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The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 1, The Personality of the Holy Spirit.
The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit As Revealed in the Scriptures And in Personal Experience By R. A. Torrey Fleming H. Revell Company New York, Chicago, Toronto, London and Edinburgh Copyright 1910, by R. A. Torrey Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he…
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Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 17, Three Fires.
“He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.”—Matthew 3:11. One night, years ago, I was sitting at my desk in my study late at night, and the work of the day was done. There was a great deal of confusion about my study table, for I had…
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Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 16, Heroes and Cowards.
“The fear of man bringeth a snare.”—Proverbs 29:25. I have a long text to-night, in fact three texts. The text is the best part of the sermon. If a sermon is better than the text it is a poor sermon. A good sermon is simply an exposition of the text.…
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Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 15, Excuses.
“And they all with one consent began to make excuses.” Luke 14:18. In these words our Lord Jesus Christ sets forth the manner in which God’s invitation of love and grace and mercy would be received, and that is precisely the way in which God’s invitation of mercy is being…
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Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 14, What Are You Waiting For.
“And now why tarriest thou? Arise and be baptized, washing away thy sin, calling on the name of the Lord” (especially the first part of the verse, “Why tarriest thou?”).—Acts 22:16. It was God who asked the question, through His servant Ananias, of Saul of Tarsus; and I believe that…
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Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 13, One of the Saddest Utterances that ever fell from the Lips of the Son of God.
“Ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life.”— John 5:40. That is one of the saddest utterances that our Saviour ever spoke. I wish I could reproduce His tender tones and His loving look when He uttered the words. I believe it would break your heart. He…
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Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 12, The Most Important Question That Any Man Ever Asked or Answered.
“What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?”—Matthew 27:22. You will remember that it was the Roman governor Pilate who asked this question, and he answered it wrongly, and brought eternal ruin and infamy down upon his own head. I trust that many in this great audience…
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Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 11, What It Costs Not To Be A Christian
“I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto Thy testimonies.—Psalms 119:59. A good many years ago I was talking to a young society lady in the city of New Haven in America, and suddenly she stopped me and said, “Don’t talk that way; it makes me think, and…
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Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 10. The Way of Salvation Made As Plain As Day.
“Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”—Acts…
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Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 9, Refuges of Lies
“The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies”—Isaiah 28:17. We have seen in a former address that every man needs a refuge from four things—from the accusations of his own conscience, from the power of sin within, from the power of Satan, and from the wrath to come. Almost…
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Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 8, A Solemn Question For Those Who Are Rejecting Christ That They May Obtain The World.
“What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the world, and lose his own soul?”—Mark 8:36. That question ought to set thinking every man and woman here tonight, who, because of love of the world is refusing Jesus Christ. I. Will you please notice in the first place…
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Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 7, Question That Should Startle Every Man Who is Not a Christian
“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?”—Hebrews 2:3. I have a text to-night which I believe God has given me for this hour, a text that ought to startle every man and woman in this building who has not accepted the Gospel of Christ. You will find…
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Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 6, The Drama of Life in Three Acts
“A certain man had two sons.”—Luke 15:11. My subject to-night is the Drama of Life in Three Acts. The Lord Jesus Christ is the author of the Drama, and it surpasses anything that was ever put on the stage in conciseness, in point, in height and depth, and fullness and…
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Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 5, Every Man’s Need of Refuge.
“And a man shall be as an hiding-place from the wind and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place; as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.—Isaiah 32:2. I have a very precious old testament text to-night—I love the Old Testament,…
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Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 4, The Judgment Day.
“God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent; because He hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised him from the dead.— Acts 17:30,…
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Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 3, Found Wanting
“TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.”—Daniel 5:25. Any one who loves the drama should read the Bible, for the Bible is the most dramatic book that was ever written. There is nothing to compare with it in Eschylus or Sophocles or Euripides among the ancients,…
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Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 2, THE GREATEST SENTENCE THAT WAS EVER WRITTEN
“God is Love.”—1 John 4:8. My subject is the greatest sentence that was ever written. Of course, that sentence is in the Bible. All the greatest sentences are in the one Book. The Bible has a way of putting more in a single sentence than other writers can put in…
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Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey, Introduction & Chapter 1, God.
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How To Pray by R. A. Torrey, Chapter 12
THE PLACE OF PRAYER BEFORE AND DURING REVIVALS No treatment of the subject How to Pray would be at all complete if it did not consider the place of prayer in revivals. The first great revival of Christian history had its origin on the human side in a ten-days’ prayer-meeting.…
Down to Earth But Heavenly Minded 