Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Jonathan Goforth

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian missionary Jonathan Goforth.

Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Jonathan Goforth was a Canadian Presbyterian missionary to China with the Canadian Presbyterian Mission, with his wife, Rosalind (Bell-Smith) Goforth. Jonathan Goforth became the foremost missionary revivalist in early 20th-century China and helped to establish revivalism as a major element in Protestant China missions.

Canadian - Missionary | February 10, 1860 - October 8, 1936

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It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we dare approach God at either the private or the public altar.

Jonathan Goforth

Seek to give much -- expect nothing.

Jonathan Goforth

Who am I that I should urge these missionaries to confess their sins in public, when, for all I know, they may be living nearer to God than I am? The Spirit of God does not need me to act as His detective.

Jonathan Goforth

If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that It is not by might, but by My Spirit.

Jonathan Goforth

So much as one person with a contrary spirit to God is enough to affect all the meetings - that the revival fire did not flow until that person broke and confessed, or the Lord removed him.

Jonathan Goforth

In all things seek to know God's Will and when known obey at any cost.

Jonathan Goforth