“As to myself, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.” – John Newton in a letter to Rev. Thomas Jones (October 20, 1767)

“It is the Father who, as the divine Gardener, has grafted us into Christ.” – Sinclair Ferguson

“The Holy Spirit produces the new birth, not the lost sinner.” – Steven Lawson

“The excellence of the church does not consist in multitude but in purity.” – John Calvin

“Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads” – R.C. Sproul

“The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.” – J.C. Ryle

“If the natural man has a free will to believe the gospel, then why does he need grace? If his will is naturally free then it would do away with the need for grace altogether…Therefore, to teach that the natural man has a free will overthrows the gospel … it is precisely because man is in bondage to sin that he needs Christ to set him free.” (John 8:34, 36) – John Hendryx

“There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is utterly realistic, based on prior knowledge of the worst about me.” J.I. Packer

“We conclude that man, without the Holy Ghost and God’s grace, can do nothing but sin. Augustine has written, ‘without God’s grace and the Holy Ghost, man can do nothing but sin.’ A man without the Spirit of God does not do evil against his will, under pressure, as though he were taken by the scruff of the neck and dragged into it but he does it spontaneously and voluntarily. And this willingness of volition is something which he cannot in his own strength eliminate, restrain or alter. He goes on willing and desiring to do evil; and if external pressure forces him to act otherwise, nevertheless his will within remains averse to so doing and chafes under such constraint and opposition.” – Martin Luther

“Faith is nothing but the instrument of our salvation. Nowhere in Scripture will you find that we are justified because of our faith; nowhere in Scripture will you find that we are justified on account of our faith. The Scripture says that we are justified by faith or through faith. 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 appealing on our behalf in the presence of God that saves us. It is God putting Christ’s righteousness to our account that saves us. That is the righteousness that saves; faith is but the channel and the instrument by which His righteousness becomes mine. The righteousness is entirely Christ’s. My faith is not my righteousness and I must never think of faith as righteousness. Faith is nothing but that which links us to the Lord Jesus Christ and His righteousness.” – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“He who looks sinward has his back to God—he who looks Godward has his back to sin.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“The New Testament preaches a Christ who was dead and is alive, not a Christ who was alive and is dead.” – James Denney

“The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams, but God is the ocean.” (Jonathan Edwards, Heaven is a World of Love).

“If you do not desire to be holy I do not see that you have any right to think that you are a Christian.” – D. Martyn Lloyd Jones

“Has it never dawned upon us that God is valuable for His own sake, that just as personal communion is the highest thing that we know on earth, so personal communion with God is the sublimest height of all?” – The God-centered legacy of J. Gresham Machen.

“God does not crave your adulation, he offers it as your greatest pleasure.” – John Piper

“Men without Christ are death walking. The beauties of holiness do not attract man is his moral insensibility, nor do the miseries of Hell deter him”. – John Edie, 19th Century Scottish preacher

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky