“How many times have we prayed that God would make us Christlike, then begged him to take from us the very things he sent to make us Christlike? How many times has God heard our cries when we imagined he didn’t? How many times has he said no to our prayers when saying yes would have harmed us and robbed us of good? “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you’” (2 Cor. 12:9). – Randy Alcorn, Heaven

“A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern.” – J.C. Ryle

“We are not loving people when we’re telling them that God accepts them as they are without repentance, because we’re lying to them.” – R.C. Sproul

“It was a great design of God to advance all the elect to an exceeding pitch of glory, such as eye has not seen. He intended to bring them to perfect excellency and beauty in his image and in holiness which is the proper beauty of spiritual beings, and to advance ‘em to a glorious degree of honor and also to an ineffable pitch of pleasure and joy. [In all this] God designed to accomplish the glory of the blessed Trinity in an exceeding degree.” (Jonathan Edwards, Personal Narrative, 125).

“There is not the slightest detail that is overlooked by the gaze of God.” – R.C. Sproul

“Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.” – Thomas Brooks

“There is nothing new in theology but that which is false; only the old is true, for truth must be old, as old as God himself.” – C.H. Spurgeon

“We also, by God’s grace, briefly indicated the Word of the Father is Himself divine, that all things that are owe their being to His will and power, and that it is through Him that the Father gives order to creation, by Him that all things are moved, and through Him that they receive their being.” – Athanasius

“Any sin is more or less heinous depending upon the honor and majesty of the one whom we had offended. Since God is of infinite honor, infinite majesty, and infinite holiness, the slightest sin is of infinite consequence. The slightest sin is nothing less than cosmic treason when we realize against whom we have sinned.” – Jonathan Edwards

“Satan will come on with new temptations when old ones are too weak. In a calm prepare for a storm.” – Thomas Brooks

“Why is it that some have believed? It is because the Spirit has sanctified them, has set them apart, has called them out. It is the call of the Spirit; it is the work of the Spirit in conviction, and calling out, and giving power to believe.”- Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Because of common grace, pagans too can create inspiring pieces of music, breathtaking paintings, and thrilling works of fiction. None of them do it, however, as an act of worship to God and with the recognition that we are using the paint of God with which He makes astounding works of art in natural creation, which is still seen despite the groaning of the scarred universe under the curse of sin.” – Unknown

“…man is still free to choose what he desires, but because his desires are only wicked he lacks the moral ability to come to Christ.” – R.C. Sproul

“In too many churches, exposition has been replaced with entertainment, theology with theatrics, and the drama of redemption with just drama.” – Steve Lawson

“One’s mere word should be as trustworthy as a signed agreement attested by legal witnesses.” – Curtis Vaughan

“A low view of law always produces legalism; a high view of law makes a person a seeker after grace.” – J. Gresham Machen

“God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus. That’s why it is sola gratia, by grace alone, that we are saved.” – R.C. Sproul

“The greatest evangelists this world has ever known have been men who have believed in the sovereign, free election of God. Let us not forget that! Two of the greatest evangelists that England has ever produced have been George Whitefield and Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and they both preached and believed in unconditional election. They said that no man is saved unless God has chosen him and set him apart for Himself — the doctrine of Romans 9 — yet they were two men who were indefatigable as evangelists, urging men and women to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. The same thing can be said of others in other countries: Howell Harris and Daniel Rowland in Wales; Jonathan Edwards in America, Samuel Davies, the writer of many hymns, and David Brainerd, who evangelized the Indians. All these men held this high doctrine of election, but they were indefatigable in their evangelism and in their praying. But here is another interesting thing. The founders of the great missionary enterprise, the modern missionary movements, were all men who held to this high doctrine of Romans 9. William Carey believed that if someone was saved it was because this was the purpose of God according to election; and yet he was, in so many senses, the father of the modern missionary movement.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Romans – Saving Faith)

“Let all the ‘free-will’ in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.” – Martin Luther

“God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to His patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.” – R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“When we pray to God for His blessing, He does not examine our performance to see if we are worthy. Rather, He looks to see if we are trusting in the merit of His Son as our only hope for securing His blessing.” Jerry Bridges

“If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord’s will but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumption, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved. Do not suppose that the Gospel is magnified or God glorified by going to the worldlings and telling them that they may be saved at this moment by simply accepting Christ as their Savior, while they are wedded to their idols, and their hearts are still in love with sin. If I do so I tell them a lie, pervert the Gospel , insult Christ, and turn the grace of God into lasciviousness.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“To love the doctrines of grace is to love God as He has revealed Himself in His Word.” – Richard Phillips

“An ambassador is not a man who voices his own thoughts or his own opinions or views, or his own desires. The very essence of the position of the ambassador is that he is a man who has been sent to speak for somebody else. He is the speaker for his Government or his President or his King or Emperor, or whatever form of government his country may have. He is not a man who speculates and gives his own views and ideas. He is the bearer of a message, he is commissioned to do this, he is sent to do this; and that is what he must do. In other words, the content of the sermon is what is called in the New Testament ‘The Word’. ‘Preach the word’, or ‘preach the Gospel’, or ‘the whole counsel of God.’ That being interpreted means the message of the Bible, the message of the Scriptures.” – MLJ, pg 61, ‘Preaching and Preachers’

“A man can have enough of the world to sink him, but he can never have enough to satisfy him.” – Thomas Brooks

“Growing in grace most certainly does not mean an increasing satisfaction with myself. No, it is the very opposite. The more I walk in the light of God, the more plainly can I see the vileness of the “flesh” within me, and there will be an ever-deepening abhorence of what I am by nature. “For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I find not” (Romans 7:18) is not the confession of an unbeliever, nor even of a babe in Christ, but of the most enlightened saint. The only peace for the renewed heart is to look away from self to Christ.” – Arthur Pink, from “The Doctrine of Salvation”

“What accounts for Luther’s behavior? One things is certain: Whatever defense mechanisms normal people have to mute the accusing voice of conscience, Luther was lacking… Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.” – R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“An individual person can be a Christian, but an individual person cannot be a church.” – Mark Driscoll

“There is nothing more important to learn about Christian growth than this: Growing in grace means becoming like Christ.” – Sinclair Ferguson

“A man’s most glorious actions will, at last, be found to be but glorious sins, if he has made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.” – Thomas Brooks (1608 – 1680)

“Things Jesus did not say at the cross: ‘Gee, I sure hope they choose Me.'” – Jules LaPierre

“If someone wants to argue that humans created God out of a psychological need for security, then it can just as easily be argued that atheism is driven from the felt need to be freed from responsibility, moral constraints and obligations.” – R. C. Sproul

“God would never permit evil, if He could not bring good out of evil.” – Augustine

“We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.” – A.W. Tozer

“The Calvinist recognizes that the death of Jesus saves everyone for whom it was designed.” – Tom Ascol

“Among the sins to which the human heart is prone, hardly any other is more hateful to God than idolatry, for idolatry is at bottom a libel on His character. The idolatrous heart assumes that God is other than He is.… Let us beware lest we in our pride accept the erroneous notion that idolatry consists only in kneeling before visible objects of adoration, and that civilized peoples are therefore free from it. The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.” (A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, p. 11.)

“One thing that disturbs me about contemporary Christian jargon is the inexact use of the word witness. Too often people use the terms evangelism and witnessing interchangeably, as if they were synonyms. They are not. All evangelism is witness, but not all witness is evangelism. Evangelism is a specific type of witnessing. Not everyone is called to be a pastor or teacher. Not everyone is called to administration or specialized ministries of mercy. Not everyone is called to be an evangelist (though we are all called to verbalize our faith). We are all called to be witnesses to Christ, to make His invisible kingdom visible. We witness by doing the ministry of Christ. We witness by being the church, the people of God. Some of us can plant. Some of us can water. When we plant and water, God will bring an increase.” – Ligonier Ministries

“The two poles shall sooner meet than the love of God and the love of money.” – John Trapp

“I see a problem with idolatry in the evangelical world. There is much that is orthodox within current evangelicalism. Sadly, there is also much that is not orthodox. I see the problem of idolatry, not as a slight deviation here and there, but as a major problem. Idolatrous views of God are rampant within current evangelicalism. I find a God who is not immutable, who is not infinite, who is not holy, and who is not sovereign. Such a god is simply not God. It is an idol.” – R.C. Sproul

“Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God.” – C.H. Spurgeon

“We preachers do not preach hell enough, and we do not say enough about sin. We talk about the gospel and wonder why people are not interested in what we say. Of course they are not interested. No man is interested in a piece of good news unless he has the consciousness of needing it; no man is interested in an offer of salvation unless he knows that there is something from which he needs to be saved. It is quite useless to ask a man to adopt the Christian view of the gospel unless he first has the Christian view of sin.” – J. Gresham Machen

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” – Margaret Thatcher