“However painful it may be to open up your life there is no safety in staying superficial.” – Brian Chesemore

If we stand at a distance we are missing out on the great privilege purchased by the gospel: fellowship with God.

A Bible-teaching church will help you avoid sin. But sin will definitely make you avoid a BIble-teaching church.

“All our sins are sunk in his precious blood as in a deep sea, so that, even if sought for, they can no more be found.” – John Newton

“He was cut down in his prime, but for our sin, not his (Isa. 53).” – Christopher Ash

“There is no such thing as an unnecessary member of your church (1 Cor. 12:7).”

“I do believe that we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“Let me revel in this one thought: before God made the heavens and the earth, He set His love upon me.” C. H. Spurgeon

“People learn how to read the Bible from how their pastor preaches the Bible.”

“Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.” – J.I. Packer

“We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.” Spurgeon

“The humble athlete is modest in victory and gracious in defeat.”

“All shall work together for good: everything is needful that he sends; nothing can be needful that he withholds.” – John Newton

“When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“The Sovereign Lord has spared you ten thousand more losses than he has sent you. Let every moment be a thousand thanks.” – John Piper

“Life, death, hell and world’s unknown may hang on the preaching and hearing of a sermon.” Spurgeon (So please pray for your pastor)

“The gospel is the announcement of concrete, historical, divine accomplishment. Because the gospel is objective, it is unchanging—it doesn’t depend upon us, our circumstances, how we feel or how we perform.”

“Sin never does what it promises. Does it promise pleasure? Be sure it will bring pain and remorse.” – Alec Motyer

“Evil tastes good, but evil always leads to nausea and vomiting.” – Christopher Ash

“The world: Your biggest problem is without. The solution is within. The Bible: Your biggest problem is within. The solution is without.” – Matt Smethurst

“There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.” – J.I. Packer

“Our deepest, strongest, purest affections should be reserved for God himself, and he gave us singing to help us express them.” – Bob Kauflin

“Leave it all in the hands that were wounded for you.” – Elisabeth Elliot

“There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.” – J.I. Packer

“It is easy to be oblivious of the thousand evidences of his care.” – Elisabeth Elliot

“Everything is necessary that God sends our way; nothing can be necessary that he withholds.” – John Newton

“No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.” Elisabeth Elliot

“Studying the Bible will yield more joy in this life and the next than all the things that lure us from it.” John Piper

“Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.” – J. I. Packer

“Sunday is the best day of the week because we celebrate the risen Christ of the cross in the local church, the dearest place on earth.” – C J Mahaney

“The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough.” – Martin Luther

“Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be.” -John Stott

“God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.” – John Stott

“Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.” – John Stott

“Known to the Lord from the beginning were all your sins. Nevertheless, He still loved you.” – Charles Spurgeon

“The greatest sorrow you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.” John Owen

“The Spirit does not take his pupils beyond the cross, but ever more deeply into it.” – J. Knox Chamblin

“The debt was so great, that while man alone owed it, only God could pay it.” – Anselm

“Your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace. Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace.” – Jerry Bridges

“When you get to heaven, you will not complain of the way by which the Lord brought you.” – John Newton

“Most Christians neglect their Bible not out of conscious disloyalty to Jesus, but because of failure to plan a time to read it.” – John Piper

“One of the most counter-cultural things you can do is become an engaged member of a faithful local church.” – David Mathis