Followers of Jesus are apprentices who’ve embraced a life of learning. We never leave school. Even when we feel we have something to teach…

“Don’t buy the lie that cultivating condemnation and wallowing in your shame is somehow pleasing to God, or that a constant, low-grade guilt will somehow promote holiness and spiritual maturity. It’s just the opposite! God is glorified when we believe with all our hearts that those who trust in Christ can never be condemned. It’s only when we receive his free gift of grace and live in the good of total forgiveness that we’re able to turn from old, sinful ways of living and walk in grace-motivated obedience.” – C.J. Mahaney

“Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.” – R.C. Sproul

“All that we receive in time, all the streams that come to our souls, are but so many streams flowing from that inexhaustible fountain, God’s electing, God’s sovereign, God’s distinguishing, God’s everlasting love.” – George Whitefield, ‘The Righteousness of Christ an Everlasting Righteousness,’ in Lee Gatiss, ed., The Sermons of George Whitefield (2 vols; Crossway, 2012), 1:290

“There is no reward from God for those who seek it from men.” – Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Prayer is the secret of holiness.” – R.C. Sproul

“Crucified for our sins and raised for our justification.” (The Gospel in 9 words) – Dr. Michael Horton

“What man will renounce his own work in order to trust to that of another, unless he be first convinced that his own is worthless? What man will repose for safety in another till he be convinced that there is no safety in trusting to himself? It is impossible. Man cannot do this of himself: it takes the work of God.” It is the convicting power of the Holy Spirit, and that alone, which brings the sinner to renounce his own works and lay hold on the Lord Jesus for salvation.” – A W Pink

Eph 5:33 – “However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”

“When a man is communicating his love for his wife (both verbally and physically), he should be seeking to communicate to her the security provided by his covenantal commitment. He will provide for her, he will nourish and cherish her, he will sacrifice for her, and so forth. Her need is to be secure in his love for her. Her need is to receive love from him.

When a wife is respecting and honoring her husband, the transaction is quite different. Instead of concentrating on the security of the relationship, respect is directed to his abilities and achievements – how hard he works, how faithfully he comes home, how patient he is with the kids, and so forth.” – Douglas Wilson, Reforming Marriage (Moscow, Id,: Canon Press, 1995), 28.

“The taught of God may fall, but not fall away—fearfully, but not finally; terribly, but not totally.” – Thomas Case

“It is condescending love, it is amazing, it is forgiving love, it is dying love, it is exalted and interceding love and it is glorified love. I am talking of the love of Jesus Christ, who loved me before I loved him. He saw us polluted in blood, full of sores, a slave to sin, to death and hell, running to destruction, then he passed by me and said unto my soul, ‘Live,’ he snatched me as a brand plucked from the burning. It was love that saved me, it was all of the free grace of God and that only.” – George Whitefield, ‘Christ the Support of the Tempted,’ a sermon preached in 1740 in England, from Lee Gatiss, ed., The Sermons of George Whitefield (2 vols; Crossway, 2012), 1:341

“If we love Christ and He be ours, it will be a far greater exaltation than if we were from beggars turned to potent monarchs.” – Jonathan Edwards

“There are many points and particulars in which the Gospel is offensive to human nature and revolting to the pride of the creature. It was not intended to please man…” – C. H. Spurgeon

“The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands; it lays hold of me.” – Martin Luther

“Dating with no intent to marry is like going to the grocery store with no money. You either leave unhappy or take something that isn’t yours.” – Unknown

“You must have a righteousness that belongs to someone else if you are to pass the bar of God’s exam.” – R.C. Sproul

“Churches that depart from the Word will soon find that God has departed from them.” – Robert Godfrey

“It is absurd to think that anything in us could have the least influence upon our election. Some say that God did foresee that such persons would believe, and therefore did choose them; so they would make the business of salvation to depend upon something in us. Whereas God does not choose us FOR faith, but TO faith. “He hath chosen us, that we should be holy,” (Ephesians 1:4), not because we would be holy, but that we might be holy.” – Rev. Thomas Watson

“The quest for God doesn’t begin until conversion.” – R.C. Sproul

“Theology is the science of living blessedly forever.” – William Perkins

“Providence is much more about God’s glory than our happiness.” – Geoffrey Grogan

“In a way unspeakably strange and wonderful, even what is done in opposition to God’s will [of desire] does not defeat his will [of decree]. For it would not be done did he not permit it, and of course his permission is not unwilling, but willing; nor would a Good Being permit evil to be done except that in his omnipotence he can turn evil into good.” – Augustine, Enchiridion, Ch. 100:

“The cross is so extensive a field for meditation, that, though we traverse it ever so often, we need never resume the same track: and it is such a marvellous fountain of blessedness to the soul, that if we have ever drunk of its refreshing streams, we shall find none other so pleasant to our taste.” – Charles Simeon, Horae Homileticae (1832), vol. 8, p. 323.

“The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the whole volume, you have hitherto read your Bible to very little profit. Your religion is a heaven without a sun, an arch without a keystone, a compass without a needle, a clock without a spring or weights, a lamp without oil. It will not comfort you; it will not deliver your soul from hell.” – J.C. Ryle, Old Paths (London, 1977), p. 248.

“There is no end to this glorious message of the cross , for there is always something new and fresh and entrancing and moving and uplifting that one has never seen before.” – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Cross: God’s Way of Salvation (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1986), xiii.

“Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion! Oh, Jesus . . . let me wear the pledge forever where it is conspicuous before my soul’s eyes.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon, “The Lord’s Supper—Simple But Sublime!” (1866), Sermon #3151, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit.

“If a local church is to become a gospel church, it must not only receive the gospel and pass it on, but also embody it in a community life of mutual love.” – John Stott

“Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take to the pen and pour them out on paper to keep them from setting me on fire inside.” – Mark Twain

“To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people everyday. And here’s what’s exciting – there are lots of people!” – Jim Rohn

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