Miscellaneous Quotes (54)

“There is no pit so deep but Christ is deeper still.” – Corrie Ten Boom

“He that is down needs fear no fall, he that is low no pride; he that is humble ever shall have God to be his guide.” – John Bunyan

“He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.” – Matthew Henry

“Learn to know Christ and him crucified. Learn to sing to him, and say, ‘Lord Jesus, you are my righteousness, I am your sin. You have taken upon yourself what is mine and given me what is yours. You have become what you were not so that I might become what I was not.’” – Martin Luther

“Faith is the accepting of what God gives. Faith is the believing what God says. Faith is the trusting to what Jesus has done. Only do this and you are saved, as surely as you are alive!” – C.H. Spurgeon

“God’s love is unconditional for those He intends to adopt as His children. He does not make us meet a condition (faith) before He will love us, as the Arminian affirms. Rather, He meets the condition for us in Christ by doing for us what we are unable to do for ourselves, that is, giving us everything we need for salvation, including a new heart to believe. (Ezek 36:26).” – John Hendryx

“This little expression, ‘It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you’re sincere,’ is a monstrous lie.” – R.C. Sproul

“The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world.” – John Piper

“If you know Christ and him crucified, you know enough to make you happy, supposing you know nothing else. And without this, all your other knowledge cannot keep you from being everlastingly miserable.” -George Whitefield, in a sermon on 1 Cor. 2:2 in 1739, in The Sermons of George Whitefield (ed. Lee Gatiss; Crossway, 2012), 2:238

“The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.” – A.W. Tozer

“You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences — salvation is all of the Grace of God — damnation is all of the will of man.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.” – George Whitefield

“Nothing serves to verify the intimacy and constancy of the Redeemer’s preoccupation with the security of his people, nothing assures us of his unchanging love more than the tenderness which his heavenly priesthood bespeaks and particularly as it comes to expression in intercession for us.” —John Murray, The Epistle to the Romans (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1968), 330.

“Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.” – Erwin Lutzer

“… you resemble what you revere, either for ruin or restoration.” – Greg Beale

“Our responsibility is to get God’s word to their ears. Only God can get the word from their ears to their heart.” – Albert Mohler

“God does not forbid sexual sin because he’s a killjoy, but because he opposes what kills joy.” – John Piper

“Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.” – Kevin DeYoung

“How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.” – Sinclair Ferguson

“I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure help in the day of need. I want them to be diligent in studying their Bibles, and becoming familiar with its contents, in order that the grand old Book may stand by them and talk with them when all earthly friends fail.” ~ J.C. Ryle

“The Lord’s mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Prayerless souls are Christless souls, Christless souls are Graceless souls and Graceless souls shall soon be damned souls. See your peril, you that neglect altogether the blessed privilege of prayer! You are in the bonds of iniquity, you are in the gall of bitterness. God deliver you, for Hisname’s sake!” – C. H. Spurgeon

“Salvation is not verified by a past act, but by present fruitfulness.” – John MacArthur

“All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.” – George Whitefield

“When a rape results in a pregnancy, this means that we are now dealing with three people instead of two. Two of those three are innocent, and one of them is guilty. Take a case of violent rape. The pro-choice ghouls want to do two things — first, they want to go easy on the guilty one, refusing to execute him, while executing one of the innocent parties for something his father did, and secondly, they want to make out anyone who objects to this arrangement as the callused one.” – Douglas Wilson

“The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.” – R.C. Sproul

“When God writes our names in the ‘Lamb’s Book of Life’ He doesn’t do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.” – R.C. Sproul

“Missions exists because worship doesn’t.”
“Prayer is a war-time walkie-talkie, not a domestic intercom.”
“The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.”
“Suffering is not just the price many must pay, it is God’s strategy for victory.” – John Piper

“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.” – Will Durant

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