Quiet Talks on Power, one of the most popular books in the Quiet Talk series, explores the awesome potential for spiritual power lying dormant in the life of every believer. All of us desire power- power to change our lives and rearrange our circumstances- but few have discovered it. Gordon exposes the channels of your heart to the cleansing flood of God's grace, preparing it for an overflow of divine power. In his unique descriptive style, Gordon prepares your soul to be connected to the divine source. You will discover that power is not a thing, but a person. Once we are properly in union with Him, Christ's power can flow through us. Open your heart. Open the book. Let the power flow.
As a young man, he was hard working , consecrated and sought the best God had for him. He served as assistant secretary of the Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association in 1884-86 so efficiently that he became state secretary for the YMCA in Ohio, serving from 1886 to 1895. In this period he developed a quiet style of devotional speaking which was quite the opposite of the powerful forensics which dominated the pulpit style of that period.
An incessant and tireless itinerant, Gordon never lacked for opportunities to preach. He never called himself a preacher, preferring the title of lecturer. In a real sense he was unique. His manner of speaking, never dull, always illustrated by parabolic stories, had gripping power to hold the attention and stir the heart.
Samuel Dickey Gordon was a popular speaker and writer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
He was born in Philadelphia August 12, 1859. As a young man, he was hard working, consecrated and sought the best God had for him. He served as assistant secretary of the Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association in 1884-86 so efficiently that he became state secretary for the YMCA in Ohio, serving from 1886 to 1895. In this period he developed a quiet style of devotional speaking which was quite the opposite of the powerful forensics which dominated the pulpit style of that period.
Gordon never lacked for opportunities to preach. He wrote more than two-dozen devotional books, most with the phrase "Quiet Talks" in the title.
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