“It shall greatly helpe ye to understande Scripture, If thou mark Not only what is spoken or wrytten, But of whom, And to whom, With what words, At what time, Where, To what intent, With what circumstances, Considering what goeth before, And what followeth.” – John Wycliffe

“Sin is the dare of God’s justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love.” – John Bunyan

“Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.” – J.C. Ryle

“I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“They are all Calvinists there, every soul of them. They may have been Arminians on earth; thousands and millions of them were; but they are not after they get there, for here is their song, ‘Salvation unto our God, which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.'” – C. H. Spurgeon

“Do not then spend the strength of your zeal for your religion in censuring others. The man that is most busy in censuring others is always least employed in examining himself.” – Thomas Lye

“If you refuse to submit to the authority of Christ…you’re taking on the Lord God omnipotent.” – R.C. Sproul

“Prayer will make you leave off sinning, or sinning will make you leave off praying.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“Many men, after a long conversion, see more of the workings of sin in their hearts than ever they did before or at their first conversion. Now, such men have not an increase of sin, but an increase of illumination and light” (Love, The Mortified Christian, 47).

“To steal from one author is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.” – Wilson Mizner

“The promise was between the Father and the Son, from all eternity, concerning your soul in particular.” – Jeremiah Burroughs

“There is always a set of grumblers about who think they could preach better and manage Sunday schools better than anybody else. They are the people who generally do nothing at all.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“He glorifies Himself toward the creature also in two ways: 1. By appearing to their understanding. 2. In communicating Himself to their hearts, and in their rejoicing and delighting in and enjoying the manifestations which He makes of Himself… God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in. When those that see it delight in it, God is more glorified than if they only see it. His glory is then received by the whole soul, both by the understanding and by the heart.” – Jonathan Edwards

“True holy water is not that which the pope sprinkles, but is distilled from the penitent eye.” – Thomas Watson

“…the accuracy of our pictures of God is not tested by our orthodoxy or our testimonies but by the truths we count on in real life. It is demonstrated when the heat is on, the chips are down, and reality seems to be breathing down our necks. What we presuppose at such moments is our real picture of God, and this may be very different from what we profess to believe about God.” – Os Guinness

“It is not your hold of Christ that saves, but his hold of you!” – C. H. Spurgeon

“The man or woman who is born of God, who is regenerate, simply does not and cannot continue – abide – in a life of sin. They may backslide temporarily, but if they are born of God they will come back. It is as certain as that they have been born again. It is the way to test whether or not someone is born again.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Great Doctrines of the Bible)

“He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.” – Jonathan Edwards

“Live as if you really believed that we were not sent into the world merely to spin cotton, and grow corn, and hoard up gold, but to ‘glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.’ Read your Bible, and become acquainted with its contents. Seek the Lord in prayer, and pour out your heart before Him. Go to a place of worship regularly, and hear the Gospel preached. Keep the Sabbath holy, and give God His day. And if any ask you the reason why: if wife, or child, or companion say, “What are you about?”—answer them boldly, like a man, and say. ‘I do these things because I have a soul.'” – JC Ryle

“To be born again is to enter into a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings, new dislikings, new fears, new joys, new sorrows, new love to things once hated, new hatred to things once loved, new thoughts of God, ourselves, the world, the life to come and salvation.” – J.C. Ryle

“Lord, if this is our work, end it; if it is man’s work, break it down; but if it be thy work, revive it.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“It is more difficult to be long and convoluted than concise and clear. While it is easy to be comprehensive, it is often more difficult to be direct.” – Jesse Johnson

“If there is no more effective remedy for anger and impatience, he has surely benefited greatly who has so learned to meditate upon God’s providence that he can always recall his mind to this point: the Lord has willed it; therefore it must be borne, not only because one may not contend against it, but also because he wills nothing but what is just and expedient. To sum this up: when we are unjustly wounded by men, let us overlook their wickedness (which would but worsen our pain and sharpen our minds to revenge), remember to mount up to God, and learn to believe for certain that whatever our enemy has wickedly committed against us was permitted and sent by God’s just dispensation.” – John Calvin, Institutes 1.17.8

C. S. Lewis, in an August 1956 letter to a certain Mrs. Johnson: “The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.”

“Christ has undertaken to save all such from what they fear, if they come to him. It is his professional business; the work in which he engaged before the foundation of the world. It is what he always had in his thoughts and intentions; he undertook from everlasting to be the refuge of those that are afraid of God’s wrath.” – Jonathan Edwards, ‘Safety, Fulness, and Sweet Refreshment, to Be Found in Christ,’ in The Works of Jonathan Edwards (2 volume Hickman ed.), 2:930

“Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Tim Kizziar

“The writer has met many people who profess to be Christians, but whose daily lives differ in nothing from thousands of non-professors all around them. They are rarely, if ever, found at the prayer-meeting, they have no Family Worship, they seldom read the Scriptures, they will not talk with you about the things of God, their walk is thoroughly worldly; and yet they are quite sure they are bound for heaven! Inquire into the ground of their confidence, and they will tell you that so many years ago they accepted Christ as their Savior, and “once saved always saved” is now their comfort. There are thousands of such people on earth today, who are nevertheless, on the Broad Road, that leadeth to destruction, treading it with a false peace in their hearts and a vain profession on their lips.” – A. W. Pink

“Bless me by revealing to me more of His saving merits, by causing Thy goodness to pass before me, by speaking peace to my contrite heart; strengthen me to give Thee no rest until Christ shall reign supreme within me in every thought, word, and deed, in a faith that purifies the heart, overcomes the world, works by love, fastens me to Thee, and ever clings to the cross.” – Puritan Prayers & Devotions

“If you do not love the Bible, you certainly do not love the God who gave it to us.” – C. H. Spurgeon