“If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” – Plato
“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.” – Michelangelo
“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.” – Lord Byron
“We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God – which is another way of saying that our seeking will always fall short unless God’s grace initiates the search and unless God’s call draws us to him and completes the search. The decisive part of our seeking is not our human ascent to God, but his descent to us. Without God’s descent there is no human ascent. The secret of the quest lies not in our brilliance but in his grace.” – Os Guinness, Long Journey Home
“If there is no controversy in your ministry, there is probably very little content to your preaching.” – Al Mohler
“The extent of the atonement is defined by the intent of the atonement.” (Matt. 1:21; Jhn 17:2, 9, 24) – Steve Lawson
“Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual.” Dr. J.I. Packer
When you see that men have been wounded by the law, then it is time to pour in the gospel oil.
“A home with no head is a disaster, one with two is a monstrosity.” – John Blanchard
“The preaching of the pure Word of God is the first mark of a healthy Church.” – J.C. Ryle
“God’s sovereign election is the truth most loathed and reviled by the majority of those claiming to be believers. Let it be plainly announced that salvation originated not in the will of man but in the will of God that were it not so none would or could be saved. For as the result of the Fall man has lost all desire and will unto that which is good and that even the elect themselves have to be made willing and loud will be the cries of indignation against such teaching.” A.W. Pink
“The more we understand how righteous God is the less we can deceive ourselves about ourselves.” – R.C. Sproul
“Ambitions for God, if they are to be worthy, can never be modest.” – John Stott
“A Pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.” – A.W. Tozer
“Seminary does not teach everything the pastor needs to know so that they don’t have to read another book in their life, but it exposes the pastor to the beginning of a lifetime of study.” – D.A. Carson
“Begin early to teach, for children begin early to sin.” – C.H. Spurgeon
“Prayerfulness is Calvinism at its best. It is a simple, open, honest declaration in the presence of God of total helplessness.” – Martin Holdt
“People ask me, ‘Why pray if God is sovereign?’ I respond, ‘Why pray if He isn’t?” – Dr. Michael Horton
“There is something worse than holding our tongue while the lost run headlong into hell. It is preaching to them an unbiblical Gospel.” – Paul Washer
“What is “glory”?… Glory is the beauty of God unveiled! Glory is the resplendent radiance of His power and His personality. Glory is all of God that makes God, God, and shows Him to be worthy of our praise and our boasting and our trust and our hope and our confidence and our joy! Glory is the external elegance of the internal excellencies of God. Glory is what you see and experience and feel when God goes public with His beauty!” – Sam Storms
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“If you have been truly born again you have a new and holy nature, and you are no longer moved towards sinful objects as you were before. The things that you once loved you now hate, and therefore you will not run after them. You can hardly understand it but so it is, that your thoughts and tastes are radically changed. You long for that very holiness which once it was irksome to hear of; and you loathe those vain pursuits which were once your delights. The man who puts his trust in the Lord sees the pleasures of sin in a new light. For he sees the evil which follows them by noting the agonies which they brought upon our Lord when He bore our sins in His own body on the tree. Without faith a man says to himself, ‘This sin is a very pleasant thing, why should I not enjoy it? Surely I may eat this fruit, which looks so charming and is so much to be desired.’ The flesh sees honey in the drink, but faith at once perceives that there is poison in the cup. Faith spies the snake in the grass and gives warning of it. Faith remembers death, judgment, the great reward, the just punishment and that dread word, eternity.” – C.H. Spurgeon