Pearls from the Old Prayer Meetings

During the last few years, we have been listening to reel-to-reel recordings (mostly from the 1960s and 70s) of Preacher Clark’s old prayer meetings. What a wonderful trove of timeless treasures these recordings are! We have assembled lists of the most striking comments Preacher Clark made during his sermons, as well as other comments taken from testimonies of others who attended those meetings. We call these wise sayings, "pearls", and you can read many of them here.

Click the PDF Download button to download the full PDF document of ALL the Pearls for 2015. Or, you can read them one month at a time below, as we add them in HTML format.

February 2015 Pearls

February 1
Hilliard and I heard a preacher say that Jesus was a man and that he wants you to be one. That is true. Most in the religious world make the Lord out to be so big and so lofty until we think we can’t live as he lived. Jesus was down to earth, and holy, and he wants us to be the same way.
- George C. Clark

February 2
There is a song you get when you get the Blessing, and when you lose that song, you are really getting down. Your oil is getting low.
- George C. Clark

February 3
[Referring to the vanity of man, thinking he is great for going into outer space.] “Blessed are the meek, for they shall go to the moon?”
- George C. Clark

February 4
It is a dangerous thing to sit under an anointed man of God and not get pregnant with the Word of God.”
- George C. Clark

February 5
All one-talent people will be lost.
- George C. Clark

February 6
I can’t blame people for turning to the life of holiness because holiness is life.
- Earl Pittman

February 7
For the real issues of life, the wisdom of this world can only serve to confuse you.
- George C. Clark

February 8
Jesus said, “When you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the Father.” God help those of us who can’t say that. “Has anybody seen God in you lately?” Paul said, “It is Christ in me.” Jesus said, “Of myself, I can do nothing. It is the Father that doeth the work. He has not left me alone.” And I say today that it is Christ in us.
- George C. Clark

February 9
Not one of you had a thing to do with my attaining to this doctrine. And as your pastor, I can’t use you in making my decisions as to which direction we’ll go any more than I used you to attain to the doctrine.
- George C. Clark

February 10
Your only chance is that I stay in tune with God.
- George C. Clark

February 11
Whose fault is it that our relationship with other groups is poor? As long as we are led by different spirits, it will remain poor. Those led by some other spirit do not even agree among themselves; how can they agree with us?
- George C. Clark

February 12
Somebody said, “If I see, then I‘ll believe.” No! You’re going to believe, and then you will see.
- George C. Clark

February 13
God disciplines even if you don’t feel well. He has never accepted one excuse.
- George C. Clark

February 14
God only has one Assembly, just one body of Christ, and He is the only one who can take you in or put you out.
- George C. Clark

February 15
If you can catch the fish, the gold is in his mouth.
- George C. Clark

February 16
My salvation doesn’t depend on the last forty-eight years I’ve been preaching. What matters is from this moment on, until the end. As Sister Gladys said recently, “It’s the first mile and the last mile that saves you.”
- George C. Clark

February 17
If you ever get to the place you’re too sure, you’re in trouble.
- George C. Clark

February 18
If you can’t pray except when you get together with the saints, you’re in bad shape.
- George C. Clark

February 19
Don’t compare the giants to your own strength.
- George C. Clark

February 20
There are people who seem to know God but do not have the real peace of God.
- George C. Clark

February 21
As long as people could lift me up as a great preacher or something, I was easily hurt by criticism. But since I got established in the faith, people can’t make me bigger, and they can’t make me feel small.
- George C. Clark

February 22
A wife doesn’t have to beg a hungry husband to come to the table to eat. And you don’t have to beg souls to eat the word of God if they want it.
- George C. Clark

February 23
If you stay full of the holy Ghost, there will be no room for evil.
- George C. Clark

February 24
If you hold on, the holy Ghost will hold out.
- Sister Gladys

February 25
Sinners are not tempted. It’s their nature to sin.
- Brother Hunnings

February 26
Any church men can take you into, you stay out of. And any church that men can put you out of, you stay out of.
- George C. Clark

February 27
Many of God’s people have fallen asleep, but the Bridegroom is still going to come.
- George C. Clark

February 28
God has never been surprised. The spiritual mind cannot be surprised.
- George C. Clark

 

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