Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian pastor Jack Hyles.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Jack Frasure Hyles was a leading figure in the Independent Baptist movement, having pastored the First Baptist Church of Hammond in Hammond, Indiana, from August 1959 until his death. He was well known for being an innovator of the church bus ministry that brought thousands of people each week from surrounding towns to Hammond for services. Hyles built First Baptist up from fewer than a thousand members to a membership of 100,000. In 1993 and again in 1994, it was reported that 20,000 people attended First Baptist every Sunday, making it the most attended Baptist church in the United States. In 2001, at the time of Hyles's death, 20,000 people were attending church services and Sunday school each week.
It is tragic for our God, Who gave us His Son to die on the cross, to beg us to love Him.
We need God as much in the calm as in the storm.
Soul winning is not a method; it is a command. We are supposed to go soul winning and do soul winning if our churches grow or if our churches decrease in attendance.
The difference between success and failure is work.
Do not ask for fears to be removed; ask for courage equal to the fears.
To lose something in the will of God is to find something better.
A good name is what is given you by others and that which has been earned by you.
Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew.
There are two ways to be rich in life: have what you want or want what you have.
If I live for self, I can only live for one; if I live for others, I
can live for 3,000,000,000.
Nothing unites people as sharing the same affliction.
Faith is the willingness to risk anything on God.
I can't make you love me, but you can't keep me from loving you.
Failing is not a disgrace unless you make it the last chapter of your book.
The pursuit of things robs me of investing more in the work of Christ.
If a task is worthy of our attention, it is worthy of our best.
Just to love, that's enough; being loved, that's a bonus.
The follower is as important as the leader.
I know enough of God to want to know more.
What we do today is more important than what we plan to do in the future.
The reward that outdoes all others is the peace of knowing that you did right.
Hearts are united when they ache and break together.
If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from next Sunday.
Success is on the same road as failure; success is just a little further down the road.
Everything you declare with your lips will be tested in your life.
Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world.
The ones who disappoint you need you the most.
Let's be diligent in giving, careful in our living, and faithful in
our praying.
Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.
The best thing I can do for you is to love you.
You are not going to be what you decide to be; you are going to be
what you decide to be around.
You don't get strength for the load; you get strength from the load.
Let principles make decisions.
You do not have to seek God's will when you are doing God's will.
God's mighty power comes when God's people learn to walk with God.
A tear today is an investment in a laugh tomorrow.
Jesus makes you happy in reality. The world makes you happy escaping from reality.
Practically every false doctrine comes from getting things out of order. God's divine order is salvation, then change; not change and then salvation! If one has to be changed to be saved, that's salvation by works. It is also salvation by the flesh. The truth is, one is cleansed from the sins of the flesh just as he is saved; by yielding to the Holy Spirit and letting Him do His work.
A person who will not take care of the little things will not take
care of the big things, for big things are but an accumulation of
little things.
If I and a need meet, God must have had in mind my filling it.
If there's anything I'd like to preach about, the loudest, other than the Gospel, it's selfishness. If there's anything I'd like to impress upon the hearts and minds of my people, it's to get out of the self life.
I never had a trial I wanted to have, but I never had trial I wasn't glad I had.
Preaching is truth set on fire.
You will never really love until you love someone who hates you.
A tribulation gives you the opportunity to test a truth you have always believed.
If God called us to a task, He will then qualify us for the job.
Nothing is happy until it fulfills the purpose for which it was created by God.
Being loved is life's second greatest blessing; loving is the greatest.
God never leads anyone anywhere for money.
I'd rather die in the will of God than to live outside of it.
Greatness is in the preparation, not in the performance.
Leadership is made for service.
A little person in a little place can use a little thing, perform a
little task, and receive a great reward.
God does not choose those who are fit. He outfits those whom He chooses.
Back of the clouds, the sun is always shining.
The greatest blessing in the whole world is being a blessing.
Failure plus failure plus failure equals success. You only fail when you quit.
God's people cannot be shamed into serving God; they need to be challenged.
The fire doesn't make you what you are; it reveals what you were.
God never gives us anything to do that He does not give us the strength to do.