S. D. Gordon (1859–1936,) fully Samuel Dickey Gordon, was an American evangelical Christian author, public speaker, and lay minister.
Born and educated in Philadelphia, Gordon served as the assistant secretary of the YMCA in Philadelphia for two years and as the secretary of the YMCA in Ohio for nine years. In 1895, he was invited to the Moody Bible Institute, where he delivered a course of lectures. Subsequently, Gordon devoted himself to devotional public speaking at conferences and missionary conventions in America, Europe, and Asia.
Gordon wrote 22 devotional books under the “Quiet Talks” label, notably Quiet Talks on Power (1901,) Quiet Talks on Prayer (1904,) Quiet Talks on Jesus (1906,) Quiet Talks on Service (1906,) and Quiet Talks on John’s Gospel (1915.)
Christian writer John W. Bradbury produced the anthology The Treasury of Quiet Talks Selections from S.D. Gordon (1951.)
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The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing; but it is the chief thing. The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; not those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time and pray.
—Samuel Dickey Gordon
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
—Samuel Dickey Gordon
It is good to know; it is better to do; it is best to be. To be pure and strong, to be honest and earnest, to be kindly and thoughtful, and in all to be true, to be manly and womanly and Christly—this is the greatest ambition in life. It is not in knowing or having or doing, but through knowing and having and doing the best, it is in being, in what a man is in himself. He can do more for others who has done most with himself. Mastery of circumstances comes only through mastery of self.
—Samuel Dickey Gordon
It is most difficult to put your finger on a single spot of the world-map that is not being torn and uptorn by unrest in one shape or another.
—Samuel Dickey Gordon
You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.
—Samuel Dickey Gordon
Topics: Prayer
Yet we may constantly do more in what we are than in what we do. We may serve better in the lives we live than in the best service we ever give. The memory of that should bring rest to your spirit when a bit tired, and may be disheartened because tired.
—Samuel Dickey Gordon
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