1. “Healing is not always obtained by saying a prayer. It is obtained by obeying God.” – John G. Lake
2. “The life of the Christian without the indwelling power of the Spirit in the heart is a weariness to the flesh. It is an obedience to commandments and an endeavor to walk according to a pattern which you have not power to follow.” – John G. Lake
3. “This is what takes place when you pray, The Spirit of God comes upon you and bathes your soul, and a shaft of it reaches out and touches that soul over there, If you had an instrument that was fine enough to photograph spirit, you would discover this is done.” – John G. Lake
4. “The power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion. It makes one a god.” – John G. Lake
5. “A man’s life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.” – John G. Lake
6. “Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is. You may think according to your own conscience. God thinks according to His.” – John G. Lake
7. “The glory of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.” – John G. Lake
8. “The Spirit of God at work in a man goes thousands of miles beyond psychological influence.” – John G. Lake
9. “For the sake of a dying, suffering world count the cost, pay the price and set the captives free.” – John G. Lake
10. “Take the words of Jesus and let them become the Supreme Court of the Gospel to you.” – John G. Lake
11. “There is only one reality. That reality is God. The soul of man must contact God, and unless the spirit of man is truly joined to God, there is no such thing as real Christian manifestation.” – John G. Lake
12. “Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls.” – John G. Lake
13. “It became easy for me to detach myself from the course of life, so that while my hands and mind were engaged in the common affairs of every day, my spirit maintained its attitude of communion with God.” – John G. Lake
14. “The reason that people do not have a rich, beautiful faith is that their spirit is denied the privilege of communion and fellowship with the Father.” – John G. Lake
15. “Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.” – John G. Lake
16. “God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is.” – John G. Lake
17. “The ministry of Christianity is the ministry of the Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that inhabits the words, that speaks to the spirit of another and reveals Christ in and through him.” – John G. Lake
18. “Sanctification is possessing the mind of Christ, and all the mind of Christ.” – John G. Lake
19. “Henry Fosdick says, “Until the New Theology can produce the sinless character of the old theology, it stands challenged.” – John G. Lake
20. “The great majority of the Christian world is still weeping at the foot of the cross. The consciousness of man is fixed on the Christ Who died, not the Christ Who LIVES. They are looking back to the Redeemer Who was, not the redeemer who IS.” – John G. Lake
21. “Christ was a miracle. Every Christian is a miracle. Every answer to prayer is a miracle. Every divine illumination is a miracle. The power of Christianity in the world is a miraculous power. God help us to realise that ours is a High and Holy Calling.” – John G. Lake
22. “Fear of the devil is nonsense. Fear of demons is foolish. The Spirit of God anointing the Christian heart makes the soul impregnable to the powers of darkness.” – John G. Lake
23. “the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up” – John G. Lake
24. “If the church ever succeeds in doing that which God purposes we should do, it can only be when we enter into that divine compassion of the Son of God.” – John G. Lake
25. “It takes the Almighty God and the Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus Christ to get down into the depth of man’s nature and find the real difficulty that is there and destroy it.” – John G. Lake
26. “Lord, take every cursed thing out of my soul that keeps me from believing the Lord Jesus Christ.” – John G. Lake
27. “The reason for the resurrection is that the kingdom of Christ is not to be in heaven entirely. It is to be in this world. And the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is to rule in this world. Consequently, while we live in this world we will need a body like our Lord’s – capable of existence here, and capable of existence over there.” – John G. Lake
28. “In Christ we become God’s sons, man’s servants and the devil’s masters.” – John G. Lake
29. “Do not imprison Christ in you. Let Him live, let Him manifest Himself, let Him find vent through you.” – John G. Lake
30. “When a Christian tries to live by reason he is moving out of God’s country into the enemy’s land. We belong in the miraculous and the supernatural realm.” – John G. Lake
31. “We live that our souls may grow. The development of the soul is the purpose of existence. God Almighty is trying to obtain some decent association for Himself.” – John G. Lake
32. “Beloved, it is not our long prayers but our believing God that gets the answer.” – John G. Lake
33. “our hearts, we saw that as a lie, no doubt” – John G. Lake
34. “One of the beautiful things about the gospel of Jesus Christ is that it is progressive in its revelation and application.” – John G. Lake
35. “The Spirit of God will go as far as your love reaches. Love is the medium that conveys the Spirit of God to another soul anywhere on God’s earth.” – John G. Lake
36. “We are awakening to that marvelous truth, that Christ is not in the heavens only, nor the atmosphere only, but Christ is in you.” – John G. Lake
37. “If you are having the right kind of spiritual fellowship, you will have power with God, and there is no escaping it!” – John G. Lake
38. “There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.” – John G. Lake
39. “The secret of Christianity is in being. It is in being a possessor of the nature of Jesus Christ.” – John G. Lake
40. “Miracles are creative. Healing is the restoration of what has been.” – John G. Lake
41. “The invitation is not, “Give Me thine head.” The invitation is, “My Son, give Me thine heart.”” – John G. Lake
42. “The purpose of Jesus is not only to save men from their sins, but by the grace of God to begin in the souls of men that marvelous development in the nature and mind and understanding of God our Father, until by the grace of God we are able to take our place and our part in the kingdom of Jesus Christ and bear our share of responsibility.” – John G. Lake
43. “Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross of Jesus Christ has put more heroism in the souls of men than any other event in human history.” – John G. Lake
44. “When I saw for the first time by the Word of God that sickness was not the Will of God, everything in my nature rose up to defeat the will of the devil.” – John G. Lake
45. “If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should do, it can only be when we enter into that Divine compassion of the Son of God.” – John G. Lake
46. “The use of anointing oil is a matter of obedience. It is a symbol of the Spirit of God, and that is all it is. So we place upon the individual the anointing oil in order that we fulfill the symbol of the Spirit of God as the Healer, and that is all.” – John G. Lake
47. “From this school came Thekla, a Grecian noblewoman, a God-anointed healer, whose ministry of healing is said by students to have set a record. And still there are those who would deny the right of Christian ministry to women.” – John G. Lake
48. “has a purpose in you. Christ’s purpose in you is to reveal Himself to you, through you, in you. We” – John G. Lake
49. “Salvation is not just something God gives you that is going to bless you after you die, it is having the presence of the lord now.” – John G. Lake
50. “There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has outgrown it.” – John G. Lake
51. “Jesus did not heal the sick in order to coax them to be Christians. He healed because it was His nature to heal.” – John G. Lake
52. “We cannot exercise our faith beyond what we believe to be possible.” – John G. Lake
53. “Science is the discovery of how God does things.” – John G. Lake
54. “It is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner, I say in my heart, “God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is.”” – John G. Lake
55. “I feel that very frequently prayer is made a refuge to dodge the action of faith.” – John G. Lake
56. “It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God.” – John G. Lake
57. “The wonder is that Jesus purposed to make your heart and mine just as sweet and lovely and pure and holy as His own.” – John G. Lake
58. “We have run into false theology, we have run into “churchianity” and human interpretations, and a hundred other follies, but friends, it is a perfectly lovely and refreshing thing to get back to Jesus.” – John G. Lake
59. “The reason people become sick is the same reason that they become sinful. They surrender to the suggestion of the thing that is evil, and it takes possession of the heart.” – John G. Lake