“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