“People are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world.” – J.C. Ryle

“Christianity which is from the Holy Spirit will always have a very deep view of the sinfulness of sin. It will not merely regard sin as a blemish and misfortune, which makes men and women objects of pity, and compassion. It will see in sin the abominable thing which God hates, the thing which makes man guilty and lost in his Maker’s sight, the thing which deserves God’s wrath and condemnation. It will look on sin as the cause of all sorrow and unhappiness, of strife and wars, of quarrels and contentions, of sickness and death–the curse which cursed God’s beautiful creation, the cursed thing which makes the whole earth groan and struggle in pain. Above all, it will see in sin the thing which will ruin us eternally, unless we can find a ransom,–lead us captive, except we can get its chains broken,–and destroy our happiness, both here and hereafter, except we fight against it, even unto death. Is this your religion? Are these your feelings about sin? If not, you should doubt whether your religion is “authentic.” – J. C. Ryle

“In my opinion Charles Wesley is the finest English hymnwriter, Thomas Cranmer the best liturgist, William Tyndale the most perceptive Bible translator, Hugh Latimer the finest preacher, and the Westminster divines the ablest catechists. Imagine all of these gifted people gathered up into one individual. What it took a dozen Englishmen two hundred years to do Martin Luther did in twenty.” – Victor Shepherd, Witnesses to the Word: Fifty Profiles of Faithful Servants (Clements, 2001), 33

“You are not truly offering people the kingdom unless you are also exhorting then to repent (Matt. 3:2).” – Kevin DeYoung

“Apart from the law we are only offering people a Savior they don’t need for sins they are not aware of.” – Kevin DeYoung

“To be saved, one must confess Jesus as Lord & Savior, but you cannot BELIEVE in him as Lord or Savior unless he first rescues us from our bondage to sin. “…no one can say “Jesus is Lord” apart from the Holy Spirit” (1 Cor 12:3) So grace is not a reward for confessing Jesus as Lord and Savior, it is the cause of it.” – John Hendryx

“A man’s treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character – how he makes it and how he spends it.” – James Moffat

“The loving and much loved wife is satisfied with the love of her husband; his smile is her joy, she cares little for any other. So, if you have come to Christ, thy Maker is thine husband – His free love to you is all you need, and all you can care for – there is no cloud between you and God – there is no veil between you and the Father; you have access to Him who is the fountain of happiness – what have you to do any more with idols? Oh! if your heart swims in the rays of God’s love, like a little mote swimming in the sunbeam, you will have no room in your heart for idols.” – Robert Murray McCheyne

“There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.” – C.H. Spurgeon

Luther, in a sermon on John 16:33:

It is as though Christ wanted to say: “My dear friend, write the word ‘I’ with a very large capital letter, in order that you may see it well and take it into your heart. . . . It does not matter that you are small and weak; I am all the larger and stronger. . . .”

Christ declares: I have already overcome the world. Thus the great and the small, the rich and the poor, will join hands and be a match for the great monster behemoth. If he tries to swallow and devour you as if you were a little gnat, I will become a big camel in his throat and tear My way through his belly until he bursts and has to return you in one piece, whether he wants to or not. I am the One who says this to you.

But you must turn your eyes from yourselves and be sure to consider who I am, in order that you may be able to say: “Listen, death, devil, pope, emperor, and world, you are really putting on airs. You are showing your long, sharp teeth and are opening your jaws wide. Compared with you I am a poor little worm. This is true. But what do you think about Him who says: ‘I am the One’ and ‘I have overcome the world’–says this to me and tells me to rely confidently on it?” – Martin Luther, Luther’s Works, Vol. 24: Sermons on the Gospel of St. John Chapter 14-16, p. 415-17

“Christ, according to Paul, will do everything or nothing; if righteousness is in slightest measure obtained by our obedience to the law, then Christ died in vain; if we trust in slightest measure in our own good works, then we have turned away from grace and Christ profiteth us nothing.

To the world, that may seem to be a hard saying; but it is not a hard saying to the man who has ever been at the foot of the cross; it is not a hard saying to the man who has first known the bondage of the law, the weary effort at establishment of his own righteousness in the presence of God, and then has come to understand, as in a wondrous flash of light, that Christ has done all, and that the weary bondage was vain. What a great theologian is the Christian heart–the Christian heart that has been touched by redeeming grace!

. . . That is the centre of the Christian religion–the absolutely undeserved and sovereign grace of God, saving sinful men by the gift of Christ upon the cross. . . . Everywhere the basis of the NT is the same–the mysterious, incalculable, wondrous, grace of God.” – J. Gresham Machen, What Is Faith? (1925), 193-95

“Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.” – William Gurnall

“God cannot be known otherwise than in Christ, all who believe they know God apart from Christ contrive an idol in place of God.” – John Calvin

“The law serves to show us the gap between God’s standard and our reality.” – Kevin DeYoung

“What does ‘dead in sin’ mean? (Eph. 2:1) What is the purpose of this phrase in Paul’s mind? Its primary purpose is to show that a person is dead to spiritual things (1 Cor 2:14)… that the person is wholly unable to help himself in any way toward his most basic need. That he first must be resurrected spiritually to have a heart which loves God (Ezek 36:26). We must remember however, that those who are ‘DEAD TO SPIRITUAL THINGS’ are VERY ALIVE to carnal things. They love darkness and hate the light ( John 3:19, 20). – John Hendryx

“You are to follow no man further than he follows Christ.” – John Collins

“Reader, would you have more faith? Then seek to become more acquainted with Jesus Christ. Study your blessed Savior more and more, and strive to know more of the length and breadth and height of His love. Study Him in all His offices, as the Priest, the Physician, the Redeemer, the Advocate, the Friend, the Teacher, the Shepherd of His believing people.

Study Him as one who not only died for you—but is also living for you at the right hand of God; as one who not only shed His blood for you—but daily intercedes for you at the right hand of God; as one who is soon coming again for you, and will stand once more on this earth.

The miner who is fully persuaded that the rope which draws him up from the pit will not break, is drawn up without anxiety and alarm. The believer who is thoroughly acquainted with the fullness of Jesus Christ, is the believer who travels from grace to glory with the greatest comfort and peace.” – J. C. Ryle, Faith in Christ

“At the bar of God’s justice, justification takes place when God declares that a person is deemed to be just in His sight.” – R.C. Sproul

“Difficulties in the way to heaven serve to bring us to a despair of ourselves, not of God.” – Thomas Manton

“Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.” – Jonathan Edwards

“It is only against the pitch blackness of the night that we see the glory of the stars. And it is only against the pitch blackness of man’s radical depravity that we can begin to see the glories of the gospel.” – Paul Washer

Gen 3:1-6 reveals the satanic strategy of every sin: undermine God’s authority and oversell the allure of disobedience.

“Peace if possible. Truth at all costs.” – Martin Luther

“Let all the ‘free-will’ in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.” – Martin Luther

“Through the creeds and confessions, we abide in the health and safety of ‘the communion of the saints.'” — Douglas Kelly

“If being terminal is a reason to end a baby’s life (or an adult’s) then we should all be put down. Each of us has a fatal condition.” – R. C. Sproul

“A Christian is the result of the operation of God, nothing less, nothing else. No man can make himself a Christian; God alone makes Christians… A Christian is one who has been created anew; and there is only One who can create, namely, God. It takes the power of God to make a Christian.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“There is nothing here to teach that a man can be saved, then lost, then saved again. Such a thing is taught nowhere in the Scriptures. There is only one reason why people ever teach anything like that and that is that they forget the doctrine of regeneration. They put so much emphasis on a man’s decision.” Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Romans – To God’s Glory)

“Are you aware of this calling of God? All things work together for good to them who are the called according to His purpose. Has He laid His hand upon you and arrested you and apprehended you?… Whether you are or are not a church member, if the truth of the gospel does not ravish your heart, if you do not feel that it is the most glorious thing you have ever heard, you have never been called.” Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Romans – The Perseverance Of The Saints)

“A man does not become a Christian by taking a decision. He is made a Christian by God, who had marked him out before the foundation of the world and who sees to it that he is born, and sees to it that he believes.” Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Romans – God’s Sovereign Purpose)

“Luther examined the Great Commandment, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ (Luke 10:27). Then he asked himself, ‘What is the Great Transgression?’ Some answer this question by saying that the great sin is murder, adultery, blasphemy, or unbelief. Luther disagreed. He concluded that if the Great Commandment was to love God with all your heart, then the Great Transgression was to fail to love God with all the heart.” – R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“The parent who neglects child discipline loves himself more than he loves the child.” – R.C. Sproul

“Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.” – D.L. Moody

“Theology that doesn’t make us sing has failed in its mission, no matter how correct it may be.” —Gerrit Scott Dawson

For the Calvinist, it [the atonement] is like a narrow bridge which goes all the way across the stream; for the Arminian it is like a great wide bridge which goes only half-way across. – Loraine Boettner

“Upon a life I did not live, another’s death, I stake my whole eternity.” – Horatius Bonar

“The Bible has no comfort whatsoever to give to people who are not Christians – none at all; indeed the exact opposite. The Bible has nothing to say to such people except to warn them to flee from the wrath to come. It tells them that the sufferings of this present hour are not worthy to be compared with the sufferings they are going to endure, that these are but a foretaste of what is coming to them, that the account of the Flood, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all similar calamities are but faint pictures of the suffering that is going to come to those who do not belong to the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no comfort here for an unbeliever – none at all.” – Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Romans – The Perseverance Of The Saints)

“When you arrive in heaven, I wonder if Christ might say, ‘Because of you, others are here today. Wanna meet ’em?'” – Max Lucado

“God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.” – John Stott

The word of God is “God’s powerful, authoritative self-expression… the word is the very presence of God among us, the place where God dwells. So you cannot separate the word of God from God himself.” – John Frame, in Salvation Belongs To The Lord

“All the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“The Gospel hinges on human sinfulness and confusing sin undermines the gospel.” – Dr. Al Mohler

“Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.” – R. C. Sproul

“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” – Winston Churchill

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

“The Law makes sinners, but the Gospel takes sinners & declares them to be saints, holy & righteous through faith in Jesus Christ.” – Pless

“There are many preachers who never preach justification by faith at all, because they do not believe it. They regard the New Testament message as no more than an ethical system, and they are always exhorting people to live better lives, and to stop doing this and that. They apply this in a more general sphere, and so are always making protests to Governments and other powers. They talk unceasingly about applying the Christian ethic… we can say without any hesitation that such men are not preaching the Gospel.” Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Romans – The New Man)

“So exceeding great are the matters of eternity, that nothing in this world deserveth once to be named in comparison with them, nor can any earthly thing, though it were life, or crowns and kingdoms, be a reasonable excuse for matters of so high and everlasting consequence. A man can have no reason to cross his ultimate end. Heaven is such a thing, that if you lose it, nothing can supply the want, or make up the loss. And hell is such a thing, that if you suffer it, nothing can remove your misery, or give you ease and comfort. And therefore nothing can be a valuable consideration to excuse you for neglecting your own salvation.” – Richard Baxter

“Oh, my brethren! bold-hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards. You and I cannot be useful if we want to be sweet as honey in the mouths of men. God will never bless us if we wish to please men, that they may think well of us. Are you willing to tell them what will break your own heart in the telling and break theirs in the hearing? If not, you are not fit to serve the Lord. You must be willing to go and speak for God, though you will be rejected. Opposers will call your determination obstinacy; but never mind, your firmness is the stuff of which martyrs are made. In a wrong case, a strong will creates incorrigible rebels; but if it be sanctified, it gives great force to character, and steadfastness to faith.” – C. H. Spurgeon

We shall grow in grace, but we shall never be more completely pardoned than when we first believed: we shall one day stand before the glorious presence of God in his own sacred courts, and see the Well-beloved and wear his likeness, but we shall not even then be more perfectly forgiven than we are at this present moment. – C. H. Spurgeon

“The Lord does not shine on us, except when we take his word as our light.” – John Calvin

“Once you know the truth, this means following it, upholding it, and if necessary suffering for it.” – Aida Skripnikova

“I want you to look for a moment. Just listen to this in 2 Corinthians 7:9-10. Listen to what Paul says. “I now rejoice not that you were made sorrowful but that you were made sorrowful to the point of genuine repentance.” Paul says, “I am glad that you saw your sin. I am glad that it created sorrow in you for this reason: It caused you to turn back to God. And then he goes on and says – listen this is very important “For you were made sorrowful” – now listen to this – “according to the will of God.” It was God’s will to make you sorrowful. Literally it can be translated this way: You were made sorrowful according to God. It was God’s doing.

I remember preaching one time, and as I was preaching, at about the middle of the sermon, people started weeping – just all over the congregation. And they just started coming forward, and they’re crying, and the leader of the counselors kept looking at me like “Shouldn’t we come forward and help them?” And I said, “No.” And then I realized they were going to do it anyway, so I went down and I stopped them. And this is what I told them. I said, “Don’t you touch the ark of God. Don’t you try to comfort people that God Himself is wounding.” God must wound you. There must be a crisis. In order to be saved, you must come to grips with who He is and what you are and the heinous nature of sin, the sinfulness of sin. In order for you to come to Christ and see Him as precious. But even after your conversion, there is a sense in which sorrow and mourning should be Biblical and should continue.” – Paul Washer

John Calvin, writing in the preface to Pierre-Robert Olivétan’s 1535 translation of the New Testament:

He [Christ] is Isaac, the beloved Son of the Father who was offered as a sacrifice, but nevertheless did not succumb to the power of death.

He is Jacob the watchful shepherd, who has such great care for the sheep which he guards.

He is the good and compassionate brother Joseph, who in his glory was not ashamed to acknowledge his brothers, however lowly and abject their condition.

He is the great sacrificer and bishop Melchizedek, who has offered an eternal sacrifice once for all.

He is the sovereign lawgiver Moses, writing his law on the tables of our hearts by his Spirit.

He is the faithful captain and guide Joshua, to lead us to the Promised Land.

He is the victorious and noble king David, bringing by his hand all rebellious power to subjection.

He is the magnificent and triumphant king Solomon, governing his kingdom in peace and prosperity.

He is the strong and powerful Samson, who by his death has overwhelmed all his enemies.

This is what we should in short seek in the whole of Scripture: truly to know Jesus Christ, and the infinite riches that are comprised in him and are offered to us by him from God the Father. If one were to sift thoroughly the Law and the Prophets, he would not find a single word which would not draw and bring us to him… Therefore, rightly does Saint Paul say in another passage that he would know nothing except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

“Grace means nothing to a person who does not know he is sinful and that such sinfulness means he is separated from God and damned. It is therefore pointless to preach grace until the impossible demands of the law and the reality of guilt before God are preached.” – John MacArthur

“The self-righteous never apologize.” – Leonard Ravenhill

“The more light that is given, the harder the human heart must become to reject it.” – Erwin Lutzer

“Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterward. Begin the day with God.” – Hudson Taylor

“When we ask whether someone is a good man, we are not asking what he believes, or hopes, but what he loves.” – Augustine

“Darwinian evolution is unscientific, unobservable, unbelievable, but understandable in a world that hates God.” – Ray Comfort

“Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.” – R.C. Sproul

“Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you come near the shore and can see a certain land-mark, that contents you greatly. A godly man, in the midst of the waves and storms that he meets with, can see the glory of heaven before him and so contents himself. One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.” – Jeremiah Burroughs

?”Christian, let God’s distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in your heart, and may not have given that blessing to your neighbor, perhaps not to your husband, your wife, your child, or your parent. Oh, what an obligation should this thought lay upon your heart to greatly fear the Lord! Remember also that this fear of the Lord is His treasure, a choice jewel, given only to favorites, and to those who are greatly beloved.” John Bunyan

“Although there are things that can be done to enhance corporate worship, there is a profound sense in which excellent worship cannot be attained merely by pursuing excellent worship. In the same way that, according to Jesus, you cannot find yourself until you lose yourself, so also you cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself. Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship worship rather than worship God. As a brother put it to me, it’s a bit like those who begin by admiring the sunset and soon begin to admire themselves admiring the sunset.” – D. A. Carson

“The grace of God constrains men to become Christians, and yet only constrains them consistently with the laws of their mind. The freedom of the will is as great a truth as the predestination of God. The grace of God, without violating our wills, makes men willing in the day of God’s power, and they give themselves to Jesus Christ. You cannot be a Christian against your will. How could it be? A servant of God against his will! A child of God against his will! Nay, it never was so, and it never shall be so.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“Yes, if you accept the gospel you have found your God, but if you reject the gospel you have rejected God himself.” C. H. Spurgeon

“Faith is nothing but the instrument or the channel by which this righteousness of God in Christ becomes ours. It is not faith that saves us. What saves us is the Lord Jesus Christ and His perfect work. It is the death of Christ upon Calvary’s Cross that saves us. It is His perfect life that saves us. It is His appearing on our behalf in the presence of God that saves us. It is God putting Christ’s righteousness to our account that saves us.” Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Romans – Atonement And Justification)

“If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.” — R.C. Sproul in his commentary on John.

“To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers; and throw him, naked and helpless, into the hands of the Holy Spirit to lead him to Christ in faith; should be the one great aim of the ministry.” – Ichabod S. Spencer

“The justification of a sinner is instantaneous and complete. . . . It is an all-comprehending act of God. All the sins of a believer, past, present, and future, are pardoned when he is justified. The sum-total of his sin, all of which is before the Divine eye at the instant when God pronounces him a justified person, is blotted out or covered over by one act of God. Consequently, there is no repetition in the Divine mind of the act of justification; as there is no repetition of the atoning death of Christ, upon which it rests.” – William G. T. Shedd, Dogmatic Theology, Volume 2 (New York: Scribner’s, 1891), 545

“I dare say that we think that we magnify Him, but in reality we belittle Him with our highest thoughts.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“We will rest in His sovereignty when we remember not just that He is almighty, but that He who is almighty loves us with an everlasting love.” – R.C. Sproul Jr.

“Weakness does not even begin to describe me as a man. Strength does not even begin to describe Christ as a Savior.” – Paul Washer

Christ himself says, John 16, ‘Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.’

Luther, 1530: This cannot be wrong–I’m sure of it–that Christ, the Son of God, has overcome the world. Why do we tremble before the world as before a triumphant conqueror? It is worth going to Rome or Jerusalem on one’s knees to obtain those words of Christ. – ‘Sayings in Which Luther Found Comfort,’ in Luther’s Works, Volume 43, Devotional Writings II, 172

“Man is inherently religious by nature. Even the secular humanist is profoundly religious. That is why he can never be neutral regarding any talk of God but must vehemently oppose it with every fibre of his being. His mantra is simple, ‘If you must speak out do so in the church house, where all who agree with you can gather; stay on the reservation, away from public view.’ While hating the God that he supposedly does not believe in, true to his nature, he must worship the god he has made. That is why at the very heart of secularism, you find blood sacrifices at the high and sacred altar of abortion.” – John Samson

“Preachers who talk about everything but the reality of Hell, are likeable betrayers of the gospel.” – Ray Comfort

“Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.” – Vance Havner

“Few, very few, today, really believe in the complete ruin and total depravity of man. Those who speak of man’s “free will,” and insist upon his inherent power to either accept or reject the Saviour, do but voice their ignorance of the real condition of Adam’s fallen children. And if there are few who believe that, so far as he is concerned, the condition of the sinner is entirely hopeless, there are fewer still who really believe in the absolute Sovereignty of God.” – A.W. Pink

“It is not sin that calls human beings to live and love, to make music and art, to work and create … to play and dance. But it is sin that undercuts and perverts them all. Sin doesn’t create things. It has no originality, no creativity, no being in itself. Sin lives off that which is good. It is a parasite, feeding greedily on the goodness of what God has made.” – Paul Marshall, Heaven Is Not My Home

“The Christian walk is not one of sinless perfection, but of sinless direction.” – Steve Lawson

“Concerning ‘end times,’ we should not be governed by curiosity but by readiness.” – Joel Beeke

“Either He bore all our sins, or none; and He either saves us once for all, or not at all.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“In semi-pelagianism man’s will precedes God’s grace. In Arminianism God’s grace precedes man’s will (but still ascribes faith and repentance to each man’s personal wisdom, not to Christ ALONE). But in Divine monergism God gives man a new heart (Ezek. 36:26), renewing his will and affections, which makes his choice certain and effectual. (Jn. 6:37)” – monergism.com

“To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.” – R.C. Sproul

“Unconverted people live in a continual state of spiritual rebellion against God.” – Steve Lawson

“God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god.” – John Piper

“If you really long to save men’s souls, you must tell them a great deal of disagreeable truth.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“If there is no controversy in your ministry, there is probably very little content to your preaching.” – Albert Mohler

“When God intends great mercy for his people, the first thing he does is set them a-praying.” – Matthew Henry

“God’s mind is revealed in Scripture, but we can see nothing without the spectacles of the Holy Ghost.” – Thomas Manton

“Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving: the atoning blood is the outflow of the very heart of God toward us.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“In accordance with this teaching of the Holy Scriptures (on the knowledge of God) the Christian church determined the character of that body of knowledge or science which from old times has been called Theology or Divinity. Theology is the science which derives the knowledge of God from His revelation, which studies and thinks into it under the guidance of His Spirit, and then tries to describe it so that it ministers to His honor.

A theologian, a true theologian, is one who speaks out of God, through God, about God, and does this always to the glorification of His name.

Between the learned and the simple there is only a difference of degree. Both have one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, Who is above all and through all, and in you all. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.” – Herman Bavinck

God is sovereign over all things or He is not sovereign over anything.

“Now, you need not ask tonight whether you are God’s elect. I ask another question — Do you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? If you do, you are His elect — if you do not, the question is not to be decided by us yet. If you are God’s chosen ones, you will know it by your trusting in Jesus. Simple as that trust is, it is the infallible proof of election! God never sets the brand of faith upon a soul whom Christ had not bought with His blood. And if you believe, all eternity is yours! Your name is in God’s Book, you are a favored one of Heaven, the Divine decrees all point to you — go your way and rejoice!” – C.H. Spurgeon

“Zeal without doctrine is like a sword in the hand of a lunatic.” – John Calvin

“You are not redeemed by a profession of faith but by the possession of faith.” – R.C. Sproul

“Salvation is a work of God to show His glory. That’s why He’s not going to let it fail.” – Paul Washer

“The mightiest prayers are often those drenched with the Word of God.” – Herbert Lockyer

“Some people seem to be afraid lest we should be the means of saving some of the non-elect—but that is a fear which never troubles either my head or my heart, for I know that with all the effort and preaching in the world, we shall never bring more to Christ than Christ has had given to Him by His Father!” – C.H. Spurgeon

“The friends of free will are the enemies of free grace.” – John Trapp

“This is the doctrine that we preach; if a man be saved, all the honor is to be given to Christ; but if a man be lost, all the blame is to be laid upon himself. 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

“The justification of a sinner is instantaneous and complete. . . . It is an all-comprehending act of God. All the sins of a believer, past, present, and future, are pardoned when he is justified. The sum-total of his sin, all of which is before the Divine eye at the instant when God pronounces him a justified person, is blotted out or covered over by one act of God. Consequently, there is no repetition in the Divine mind of the act of justification; as there is no repetition of the atoning death of Christ, upon which it rests.” – William G. T. Shedd, Dogmatic Theology, Volume 2 (New York: Scribner’s, 1891), 545

“The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.” – R.C. Sproul

“Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.” – Matthew Henry

“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.” – John Calvin

“The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We’re saved by works, but they’re not our own.” – R.C. Sproul

“If God were small enough to be understood He would not be big enough to be worshipped.” – Evelyn Underhill

“God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.” – John Calvin

“The bare knowledge of God’s will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which hath no heat or influence; it doth not warm the affections, or purify the conscience. Judas was a great luminary, he knew God’s will, but he was a traitor.” – Thomas Watson