“The content of the Christian faith does not continually change. “…that which is true is not new, and that which is new is not true.” – Robert Schindler (March 1887, Sword and Trowel)

“One person who might think poorly of her witness is a woman whose words were instrumental in my own salvation. I do not know her name and doubt I could recognize her. One day, as I moved into an apartment, she was moving out next door. I carried one box of books to her car. After thanking me, she asked whether I was looking for a church to attend. My body language made it clear that I did not appreciate the question. So she quickly stammered, “If you are ever looking for a church, I would recommend this particular church a few blocks away.” With that, she drove off and I never saw her again. I have often imagined her kicking herself for her weak attempt to witness. But a few months later, when the Holy Spirit had prepared a way for the Lord into my heart, I remembered her words, went to that church, and hearing the gospel there, I believed and was saved.” – Rick Phillips, Pastor and Author

“Staying how to ‘watch church’ is like staying home from a friend’s wedding to watch the ceremony virtually. And keep your wedding gift with you. Your presence and solidarity and love and hugs and eye contact and singing are needed. It’s not just about passively receiving something. It’s about being an embodied part of the celebration. The whole event is diminished by your absence. And you have a gift to give.” – Dane Ortlund

“In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is merely a word we use to describe mathematical possibilities. But chance itself has no power because it has no being. Chance is not an entity that can influence reality. Chance is not a thing. It is nothing.” – R.C. Sproul

“The notion that God in His sovereignty created a being free from His decrees is absolute nonsense. He can no more cede part of His sovereignty than He can cede part of His holiness, righteousness, wisdom or power. Sovereignty isn’t just a thing He does; it is who He is. If there is a being who can thwart God, that can prevent Him from doing what He has determined to do, then that being is God,and must be worshiped. Not God. But this is all folly, a pathetic attempt to whittle the living God down to a more domesticated and manageable size.” – Dan Phillips

“The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.” —R.C. Sproul

“I really think that’s the central unique factor of Reformed theology; it is that it’s relentlessly committed to maintain the purity of the doctrine of God through every other element of our theology.” – R.C. Sproul

“If there really was a worldwide flood, what would the evidence be? Billions of dead things buried in rock players laid down by water, all over the earth. What do we find? Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water, all over the earth.” – Ken Ham

“He who has the sore toes goes.” – Anonymous, see Matt. 18:15-20

“Whenever we ask God for something, He either gives us what we ask Him for, or He gives us something BETTER!!” – Geoff Thomas

“Every church website has a navigation button that says, in effect, ‘What we believe.’ Though created in the last millisecond of church history, and not subject to public scrutiny, all these, in principle, are confessions of faith. When a church can cook up a confession of faith and make it public on its website without the comprehensive collaboration of the greatest theological minds, we are intensely vulnerable. In such a momentary and fragmented confessional climate, generational vigilance against the Enemy’s schemes to corrupt the pure doctrine of the gospel is almost destroyed. We institutionalize a single-generation Christianity – at best – and I suspect the Enemy gives us rousing applause for doing it.” – Douglas Bond

“If we only ever sing about our feelings for God, we’ll tend to worship our worship and be passionate about our passion.” – Bob Kauflin

“We need more Church members like Martin Luther who only found 95 things wrong with his Church.” – Anonymous

“The real test of any man’s orthodoxy is what he actually teaches, not the statement of faith he signs.” – Phil Johnson

“No man by nature and left to himself has ever sought God…If you and I can claim as Christian people that we are seeking God, there is only one explanation for it, and that is that God has first sought us…Show me a man who can say honestly that he is seeking after God, and I will show you a man who has been quickened by God’s Spirit, whom God has sought.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“The price of victory is constant vigilance. Yes, there is grace to cover all our sin; but that grace leads us to mortify it, not to tolerate it.” – Sinclair Ferguson

“As a fire is a better source of heat than a stone that has been warmed, because fire is heat, but a stone has only been heated, and as gold is better than something covered in gold, because gold is gold, but something gilded can have its glittering exterior removed, so God’s attributes are not qualities that are different from God; God is his attributes. All things composed are imperfect. Divine simplicity, therefore, protects the pure perfection of God and protects his name, I AM WHO I AM.” – Samuel Renihan

“Look in a biology book and you’ll soon discover Darwinists are experts at drawing things that never existed to support their theory that never took place. You’ll see pages adorned with neat drawings of fish evolving into amphibians, or of reptiles evolving into birds, etc. Yet none of these are backed by observable evidence. The fact is, if you took away their box of crayons, Darwinists wouldn’t have anything to show. The bottom line is this: Put your trust in the Word of God; Word for Word and cover to cover!” – Russ Miller

“The doctrine of the sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures declares that everything necessary for saving faith and spiritual life is taught in the Bible. There is no warrant or need for the church to base its doctrine or directives on anything else, be it church tradition, the opinions of men, or the wisdom of this world.” – Beeke and Smalley, I. 396

“Christ reigns whenever he subdues the world to Himself by the preaching of His word.” – John Calvin

“The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.” – John Calvin

“For the rule of our faith and religion, we wish to follow the Scripture alone, without mixing with it any other thing which might be fabricated by the interpretation of men apart from the Word of God; and we do not pretend to receive any other doctrine for our spiritual government than that which is taught us by the same Word, without addition or reduction, according to the command of our Lord.” – The Geneva Confession 1536/1537).

“The church is not an institution for perfect people. It is a sanctuary for sinners saved by grace, a nursery for God’s sweet children to be nurtured and grow strong. It is the fold for Christ’s sheep, the home for Christ’s family. The church is the dearest place on earth.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“Satan dreads nothing but prayer. His one concern is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, he mocks our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray.” – Samuel Chadwick

“The Church does not determine what the Bible teaches. The Bible determines what the Church must teach.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“While recognizing the potential errancy of human traditions and the importance of sola Scriptura, heirs of the Reformation demonstrated attentiveness to tradition by, for instance, robustly affirming the trinitarian theology and Christology articulated in the first ecumenical creeds. And even when a particular doctrine or practice was deemed unbiblical (e.g., purgatory, indulgences), the Reformers also maintained the vital importance of demonstrating their rejection in patristic sources. In this way, they confirmed the primacy of Scripture and yet maintained the abiding value of the testimony of the saints.” – “tradition” (in Kapic, ed, Pocket Dictionary of Reformed Tradition)

“For the rule of our faith and religion, we wish to follow the Scripture alone, without mixing with it any other thing which might be fabricated by the interpretation of men apart from the Word of God; and we do not pretend to receive any other doctrine for our spiritual government than that which is taught us by the same Word, without addition or reduction, according to the command of our Lord.” – The Geneva Confession 1536/1537).

“The very word theology is a combination of the Greek word theos, which is translated “God,” and the word logos, which can be translated “word” or “discourse.” Theology is a discourse about God, a word about God, and that means it involves the knowledge of God. Theology is the doctrine of God, and our concern in theology is the true knowledge of God.” – Keith A. Mathison

“The church that can’t worship must be entertained. And men who can’t lead the church to worship must provide the entertainment.” – A. W. Tozer

“Let me give you a statement that is the most offensive claim that can be made in the realm of religion. Here it is … There is only one God, one Savior, one true religion, one holy book, one gospel, one way of salvation. All other religious claims are lies, deceptions, doctrines of Satan and demons that lead people to eternal hell along with all the immoral, irreligious, atheistic, hedonistic, naturalistic unbelievers. That is the most offensive statement that I could come up with. It just happens to be the truth. It is the truth. That is the exclusive truth of Christianity. Even within the professing church, any deviation from the true gospel of grace is a damning lie to be cursed. We understand why the world rejects this. It is, however, a very sad day when people inside the church – even the evangelical church – begin to reject this. And, as I have said, getting the gospel right is the most important reality in the world because the true gospel is the only way of salvation.” – John MacArthur

“A pastor must have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child and the skin of a rhinoceros.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“The worst thing that can happen to sinners is to be allowed to go on sinning without any divine restraints. At the end of the New Testament, in the book of Revelation when the description of the last judgment is set forth, God says, ‘He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still’ (Rev. 22:11). God gives people over to what they want. He abandons them to their sinful impulses and removes His restraints, saying in essence, ‘If you want to sin, go ahead and sin.’ This is what theologians call ‘judicial abandonment.’ God, in dispensing His just judgment, abandons the impenitent sinner forever.” – R.C. Sproul, Romans: An Expositional Commentary, pp. 32-33

“Real revivalism is the extraordinary blessing of God on the ordinary means of grace.” – John Williamson Nevin

To every believer, the debt–book is crossed; the black lines of sin are crossed out in the red lines of Christ’s blood. —Thomas Watson

“The greatest act of mercy that God performs is giving the gift of faith.” —R.C. Sproul

“There are very few errors and false doctrines of which the beginning may not be traced up to unsound views about the corruption of human nature. Wrong views of a disease will always bring with them wrong views of a remedy. Wrong views of the corruption of human nature will always carry with them wrong views of the grand antidote and cure of that corruption.” – J. C. Ryle , the First Bishop Of Liverpool

“The Holy Spirit has to change a person’s heart before He will ever say ‘yes’ to Jesus.” —R.C. Sproul

“No man by nature and left to himself has ever sought God…If you and I can claim as Christian people that we are seeking God, there is only one explanation for it, and that is that God has first sought us…Show me a man who can say honestly that he is seeking after God, and I will show you a man who has been quickened by God’s Spirit, whom God has sought.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Romans – The Righteousness Judgment Of God)

“Readiness NOT speculation is what we need regarding the return of our Lord.” – Robert Briggs

“The church is not an institution for perfect people. It is a sanctuary for sinners saved by grace, a nursery for God’s sweet children to be nurtured and grow strong. It is the fold for Christ’s sheep, the home for Christ’s family. The church is the dearest place on earth.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“There is no single moment – no song sung or prayer prayed or feeling felt – when a church ‘enters the presence of God.’ Whether felt or not, every true, gathered church IS the dwelling place of God on earth – a temple in whom Christ fills all in all through the indwelling Holy Spirit.” – Jeff Wiesner

“People sometimes ask, ‘What makes your church different from other churches.’ I say, ‘Good question. But we might start with, How is my church like true churches in every place through the ages?’ This is one implication of confessing ‘one, holy, catholic and apostolic church.’” – Jeff Wiesner

“Satan and the demons know who Jesus is, but Satan would never put his personal trust or reliance upon Christ.” —R.C. Sproul

“No man can do a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.” C. H. Spurgeon

“The flesh is not totally annihilated at conversion; the war goes on.” —R.C. Sproul

“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

“A believer’s dying day is his ascension day to glory.” – Thomas Watson

“The Bible clearly teaches that God is both infinitely good and in control of all creation—even the evil in the world. Though He is not the author of evil, He is Ruler over it, as the book of Job illustrates. And because God is in control of all things, we can have hope and turn to Him for mercy and grace in the face of overwhelming circumstances.” – Paul Tautges