“Abortion is advocated only by people who have already been born.” – Ronald Reagan

“I defy the Pope and all his laws. If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scripture than he dost.” – William Tyndale

“At the Synod of Dort, the churches saw Arminianism as a serious threat to the gospel and condemned it “as being in principle a return to Rome” (because in effect it turned faith into a meritorious work) and a betrayal of the Reformation (because it denied the sovereignty of God in saving sinners, which was the deepest religious and theological principle of the Reformer’s thought). Arminianism was, indeed, in Reformed eyes a renunciation of New Testament Christianity in favour of New Testament Judaism; for to rely on oneself for faith is no different in principle from relying on oneself for works, and the one is as unchristian and anti-Christian as the other.” – J.I. Packer and O.R. Johnston, “Historical and Theological Introduction,” in Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will, trans. J.I. Packer and O.R. Johnston (Cambridge: James Clarke/Westwood, N.J.: Revell,1957, p. 59)

“The loudest boos always come from the cheapest seats.” – Babe Ruth

“Bring your beliefs to the test of the Scriptures, and you are likely to discover that it is much harder and more painful to unlearn some things than it is to learn new ones.” – A.W. Pink

“I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains.” – J.C. Ryle

“A man who wants to lead an orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” – James Crook

“Rudeness is the weak person’s imitation of strength.” – Eric Hoffer

“If things seem under control, you’re not going fast enough.” – Racer Mario Andretti

“In some places God requires newness of heart [Ezek 18:31]. But elsewhere he testifies that it is given by him [Ezek. 11:19; 36:26]. But what God promises we ourselves do not do through choice or nature; but he himself does through grace.”- Augustine

“Sin cannot keep you from the Grace of God but the Grace of God can keep you from sin.” – Unknown

“The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.” – Hubert Van Zeller

“Sinner, thou thinkest that because of thy sins and infirmities I cannot save thy soul, but behold my Son is by me, and upon him I look; and not on thee, and will deal with thee according as I am pleased with him.” – John Bunyan

“Dear reader, have you received the spirit which is of God, wrought by the Holy Ghost in your soul? The necessity of the work of the Holy Spirit in the heart may be clearly seen from this fact, that all which has been done by God the Father, and by God the Son, must be ineffectual to us, unless the Spirit shall reveal these things to our souls. What effect does the doctrine of election have upon any man until the Spirit of God enters into him? Election is a dead letter in my consciousness until the Spirit of God calls me out of darkness into marvellous light. Then through my calling, I see my election, and knowing myself to be called of God, I know myself to have been chosen in the eternal purpose. A covenant was made with the Lord Jesus Christ, by His Father; but what avails that covenant to us until the Holy Spirit brings us its blessings, and opens our hearts to receive them? There hang the blessings on the nail–Christ Jesus; but being short of stature, we cannot reach them; the Spirit of God takes them down and hands them to us, and thus they become actually ours. Covenant blessings in themselves are like the manna in the skies, far out of mortal reach, but the Spirit of God opens the windows of heaven and scatters the living bread around the camp of the spiritual Israel. Christ’s finished work is like wine stored in the wine?vat; through unbelief we can neither draw nor drink. The Holy Spirit dips our vessel into this precious wine, and then we drink; but without the Spirit we are as truly dead in sin as though the Father never had elected, and though the Son had never bought us with His blood. The Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary to our well?being. Let us walk lovingly towards Him and tremble at the thought of grieving Him.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather…not screaming like the rest of the passengers in his car…” – Anonymous

“The fear of God is the death of every other fear.” – C.H. Spurgeon

“So what is the right way to listen to a sermon? With a soul that is prepared, a mind that is alert, a Bible that is open, a heart that is receptive, and a life that is ready to spring into action.” – Phil Ryken

“God answers only the requests which He inspires.” – Ralph A. Herring

“Our old man is crucified, but he is long at dying.” – C.H. Spurgeon

“The elect do not activate the atonement by their faith; the atonement is already active in bringing about their faith.” – John Piper

“Without Christ crucified in her pulpits, a Church is little better than a dead carcass, a well without water, a barren fig-tree, a sleeping watchman, a silent trumpet, an ambassador without terms of peace, a messenger without tidings, a lighthouse without without light, a stumbling-block to weak believers, a comfort to unbelievers, a hot-bed for formalism, a joy to the devil, and an offence to God.” – J.C. Ryle

“If God has exhaustive foreknowledge of who will believe and who will not even before He creates them then it does away with libertarian free will, because their choice is fixed and could not be otherwise. If Arminians were consistent on free will they would have to become Open Theists, who believe God is ignorant of the future.” – Monergism.com

“Faith is the gaze of the soul upon a saving God …. Faith is the least self-regarding of the virtues. It is by its very nature scarcely conscious of its own existence. Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which is rests and pays no attention to itself at all.” – A.W. Tozer

“That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.” – J.C. Ryle

“If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evil age, we have not yet understood the radical condition for which Christ is such a radical solution.” – Michael Horton, Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

“In the climate of our modern church, it is essential for us to realize that God’s Word is the central gift Christ gives to the church. The major gifts of the New Testament era were given either to write that word (apostles), apply it (prophets) or teach it (pastors and teachers).” – Sinclair Ferguson

“The liberty of the man of the world is liberty to commit evil without restraint; the liberty of a child of God is to walk in holiness without hindrance.” – C.H. Spurgeon

“Nothing will ever enter your experience as God’s child that, by God’s sovereign grace, will not turn out to be a benefit to you” – John Piper, Future Grace, 116).

“Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls, and in order to practice.” – Jonathan Edwards

“The Devil does not leave us alone once we embrace the solas of the Reformation.” – R.C. Sproul Jr.

“My repentance isn’t something I contribute, it is my confession that I have nothing to contribute. My faith is not something I contribute, but my trust that He contributes all.” – R.C. Sproul, Jr.

“We’re not always as bad as we can be, but that is solely because of God’s restraining grace.” – John MacArthur

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

“The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.” – D.A. Carson

“If you desire to be justified before God, you must either bring to him a perfect righteousness of your own, and wholly renounce Christ; or else you must bring the perfect righteousness of Christ, and wholly renounce your own.” – Edward Fisher, The Marrow of Modern Divinity (Christian Focus, 2009), 111

“Do not think Christians are made by education; they are made by creation… The vital spark must come from above! Regeneration is not of the will of man, nor of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, but by the power and energy of the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God alone!” – C.H. Spurgeon

“There is more Bible buying, Bible selling, Bible printing and Bible distributing than ever before in our nation. We see Bibles in every bookstore; Bibles of every size, price and style. There are Bibles in almost every house in the land. But all this time I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.” ~ J.C. Ryle

“People cling to an unsatisfactory way of life rather than change in order to get something better, for fear of getting something worse.” – Eric Hoffer

“A holy love has a holy object. The holiness of love consists especially in this, that it is the love of that which is holy, for its holiness.” – Jonathan Edwards