Quotes

"One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God."

A.W. Tozer

"There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them."

C. S. Lewis

"Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee."

St. Augustine

"There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon."

J. I. Packer

"To our forefathers the Christian faith was an experience. To our fathers it was an inheritance. To our generation it is a convenience. And to our children it is a nuisance."

Anonymous

"...There is a great need of more familiarity with the Scriptures and their teaching in order that we may be crushed to our knees with a sense of humility and be made to cry to God that He would visit us again."

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"...Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols."

John Calvin

"Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail."

Frances Ridley Havergal

"The very essence of God's saving work is the transformation of the will, resulting in a love for God. Salvation thus establishes the root that will surely produce the fruit."

John MacArthur

"The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart."

Charles Spurgeon

"Our consciences are not infallible, and they can become warped or weakened if not kept aligned by the infallible Word of God."

J. Oswald Sanders

"...Discernment is the process of making careful distinctions in our thinking about truth. The discerning person is the one who draws a clear contrast between truth and error. Discernment is black-and-white thinking- the conscious refusal to color every issue in shades of gray. No one can be truly discerning without developing skill in separating divine truth from error."

John MacArthur

"Like Joseph storing up grain during the years of plenty to be used during the years of famine that lay ahead, may we store up the truths of God's Word in our hearts as much as possible, so that we are prepared for whatever suffering we are called upon to endure."

Billy Graham

"Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction."

Samuel Rutherford

"Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you, it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you; and though it bring you to the grave, as it did your Head, it shall not be able to keep you there."

Richard Baxter

"The disciple of Jesus is not the deluxe or heavy-duty model of the Christian-especially padded, textured, streamlined, and empowered for the fast lane on the straight and narrow way. He stands on the pages of the New Testament as the first level of basic transportation in the kingdom of God."

Dallas Willard

"It has come to the time where the most dangerous place to be in America is not the inner city, where gangs threaten innocent lives, or in angry prisons, where only the fit survive, but in the womb of a mother who is being told that if she doesn't really want the baby, an abortion is the solution."

Chuck Swindoll

"This is the main problem of the Christian and his public life-whether modern or ancient. We love ourselves in a narrow, confined way, and are indifferent to others and society and the nations and God."

John Piper

"...The truth and beauty of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, are breathtaking...The human race does in fact crave the experience of awe and wonder. And there is no reality more breathtaking than Jesus Christ."

John Piper

"God's overwhelming passion is to exalt the value of his glory. To that end he seeks to display it, to oppose those who belittle it, and to vindicate it from all contempt. It is clearly the uppermost reality in his affections. He loves his glory infinitely."

John Piper

"The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains."

J. I. Packer

"Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, ‘in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.’"

Martin Luther

"The interest comes to infinitely more than the principal."

Thomas Watson

"The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?"

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"Prayer is a mighty instrument, not for getting man's will done in Heaven, but for getting God's will done on earth."

Robert Law

"What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!"

John Flavel

"Man's nature...is a perpetual factory of idols."

John Calvin

"If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance."

Erwin Lutzer

"God has often given His people favor in the sight of heathen masters (as Joseph and Daniel), and has magnified the sufficiency of His grace by preserving their souls in the midst of the most unpromising environments. His saints are found in very unlikely places."

A.W. Pink

"Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face."

William Cooper

"The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence."

F.B. Meyer

"Wherever you are — be all there."

Jim Elliot

"There is nothing the Church of today needs so much as Spiritual Power; and there is nothing which we can have so easily, if only we are prepared to pay the price."

F.B. Meyer

"Though baptism does not in itself save, it does shout out our identity with Christ. When that public declaration is made, many pay a huge price. It is not just a meaningless ritual, or merely a duty; it is a privilege of the highest sort."

Jim Elliff

"...Fellowship involves two or more Holy Spirit indwelled people talking about God and the things of God."

Don Whitney

"We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world."

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"The express purpose of God is to give glory to himself in all the nations."

David Meade

"A world Christian is a disciple for whom Christ's global cause has become the integrating, overarching standard, affecting his or her values, perspectives, and life decisions."

World Christian Fellowship

"After years of ingratitude, unbelief, blasphemy and rebellion, have I at last been melted? Alas, how slow, how reluctant I have been to admit the heavenly guest who stood knocking without!"

Allen Francis Gardiner

"The cross of Christ is the all-sufficient ground for the salvation of sinners. It claims to be sturdy enough to support the whole weight of our guilt all by itself. Therefore, to boast in the cross properly at all is to boast in the cross alone."

Philip Ryken

"It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires."

Martin Luther

"...The first and great evidence of our walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit is not some private mystical experience of our own, but our practical relationships of love with other people."

John Stott

"The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to a dear surviving friend."

John Flavel

"Christ has appointed that we feast spiritually on the benefits of the cross as we eat the bread and drink the cup."

John Piper

"...The Spirit provides us with the energy and power to continually and gradually be killing our sins, a process never completed in this life."

John MacArthur

"The fruit of the Spirit is the natural produce of his gracious inward influence, the spontaneous and inevitable result of his uniting us to Jesus Christ."

Philip Ryken

"The deepest reason why we cannot rejoice in the Lord is that by nature we are dead...We are like the blind in the art gallery of heaven."

John Piper

"At regular intervals we need to quitourwork and contemplateHis, quit talking to each other and listen toHim. God knows we need this and has given us a means in sabbath -- a day for praying and playing, simply enjoying what He is."

Eugene Peterson

"A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone."

Martin Luther

"Circumcision stands for a religion of human achievement, of what man can do by his own good works; Christ stands for a religion of divine achievement, of what God has done through the finished work of Christ."

John Stott

"The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins."

St. Augustine

"There really is something neurotic about Christians who spend most of their time trying desperately to please a God who is already very pleased."

Steve Brown

"God's evangelistic strategy in a nutshell: He desires to build into you and me the beauty of his own character, and then put us on display."

Joseph Aldrich

"Satan tempts to sin under a presence of religion. He is most to be feared when he transforms himself into an angel of light. He came to Christ with Scripture in his mouth:"It is written."The devil baits his hook with religion. He tempts many a man to covetousness and extortion under a presence of providing for his family; he tempts some to do away with themselves, that they may live no longer to sin against God; and so he draws them into sin, under a pretence of avoiding sin."

Thomas Watson

"We know God but as men born blind know the fire: they know that there is such a thing as fire, for they feel it warm them, but what it is they know not. So, that there is a God we know, but what He is we know little, and indeed we can never search Him out to perfection; a finite creature can never fully comprehend that which is infinite."

Thomas Manton

"When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation."

John Owen

"The law showeth unto us our sins, and maketh known unto us our miserable estate and wretchedness, and how that there is nothing good in us, and that we are far off from all manner of righteousness, and so driveth us of necessity to seek righteousness in Christ."

Daniel Cawdray

"For notwithstanding this rest and cessation from labor which is required on the Lord's day, yet three sorts of works may and ought to be performed. . . . these are works of piety, works of necessity, and works of charity."

Ezekiel Hopkins

"According to the New Testament, the church is primarily a body of people who profess and give evidence that they have been saved by God's grace alone, for His glory alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone."

Mark Dever