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Phineas F. Bresee

A Methodist minister of Los Angeles who founded the Church of the Nazarene there in 1895 and led it into the union of holiness churches of 1907 and 1908.

Summary

This site quotes Phineas F. Bresee 3 times across 3 books, and lists 0 works.

  • Lived 1838 to 1915, American.
  • Quoted here most in Luke: 1 of 3.

Phineas F. Bresee

Lived
1838 to 1915
Nation
American
Tradition
Church of the Nazarene
Portrait
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3 of 3 quotations

Own words

Quoted in full, because Phineas F. Bresee died in 1915 and these works are out of copyright. Each citation below names its edition and its year. A citation naming a modernised text means that edition makes its own editorial changes, and that edition's terms are not in this site's record.

“It was to seek especially the poor, to preach the gospel to them, entering every door of ministry through which we could come and bring the good tidings of eternal life.”

quoted in E. A. Girvin, Phineas F. Bresee: A Prince in Israel, page 162, from the Nazarene of September 1898, 1898

Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, BSB

“I fully believe, with the accelerated momentum given by our union of holiness forces, that only a few years will be necessary to give to this work a thousand centers of holy flame in this country, and that from them the streams will flow to…”

quoted in E. A. Girvin, Phineas F. Bresee: A Prince in Israel, page 341, his report to the General Assembly of October 1907, 1907

The rest of the quotation

the world.

Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” BSB

“Let the poor be fed and clothed, let us pour out of our substance for this purpose; but let us keep heaven open, that they may receive the unspeakable gift of His love, in the transforming power of the Holy Ghost.”

quoted in E. A. Girvin, Phineas F. Bresee: A Prince in Israel, page 249, his account of Seattle, December 1904, 1904

2 Corinthians 9:15 Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift! BSB

Influence, on the record

  • This site quotes Phineas F. Bresee 3 times across 3 books.

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The life, in order

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A Methodist minister of Los Angeles who founded the Church of the Nazarene there in 1895 and led it into the union of holiness churches of 1907 and 1908.

3 quotations across 3 books

Where this voice is quoted