“It isn’t ‘bravery’ to say you’re yielding to a soul-destroying vice, and it isn’t ‘love’ to commend such a boast.” – Dan Phillips

“But, beloved, when God passed by the field in which we were lying, he saw no tears in our eyes till he put them there himself; he saw no contrition in us until he had given us repentance; and there was no beauty in us that could induce him to adopt us—on the contrary, we were everything that was repulsive;” – Mark Driscoll, “Who Do You Think You Are?”

“Rather than be a hindrance to evangelism, as some would claim, predestination frees us up to do as God has commanded all Christians to do, to preach him boldly without the worry that we somehow affect the process of salvation or can mess it up. It frees us up to be bolder in evangelism, not the opposite.” – Mark Driscoll, “Who Do You Think You Are?”

“Now faith cometh not of our free-will; but is the gift of God, given us by grace, ere there be any will in our hearts to do the law of God. And why God giveth it not every man, I can give no reckoning of his judgments. But well I know, I never deserved it, nor prepared myself unto it; but ran another way clean contrary in my blindness, and sought not that way; but he sought me, and found me out, and showed it me, and therewith drew me to him. And I bow the knees of my heart unto God night and day, that he will show it all other men; and I suffer all that I can, to be a servant to open their eyes. For well I know they cannot see of themselves, before God hath prevented them with his grace.” – William Tyndale

“Faith finds that Christ has made full payment to the justice of God having poured out his blood to death upon the cross…He was born to die; he was sent into the world as a Lamb bound with the bonds of an irreversible decree as a sacrifice. There is no redemption but by his blood. Christ did not redeem and save poor souls by sitting in majesty on his heavenly throne, but by hanging on the shameful cross, under the tormenting hand of man’s fury and God’s just wrath. And therefore, the poor soul that would have pardon of sin, is directed to place its faith not only on Christ, but on a bleeding Christ, whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood (Rom. 3:25).” – William Gurnall, Works, II:3-6, as quoted by Richard Rushing, editor, Voices from the Past, (Banner of Truth), p. 85

“The mystery of God’s providence is a most sublime consideration. It is easy to let our reason run away with itself. It is at a loss when it attempts to search into the eternal decrees of election or the entangled mazes and labyrinths in which the divine providence walks. This knowledge is too wonderful for us. Man can be very confident that God exercises the most accurate providence over him and his affairs. Nothing comes to pass without our heavenly Father. No evil comes to pass without his permissive providence, and no good without his ordaining providence to his own ends.” – Ezekiel Hopkins

“Many of us picture the atonement as nothing but undeserved mercy from a loving God. We forget that the mercy we receive is a mercy merited on the cross. God has not saved us by the removal of justice, but by the satisfaction of it. Justice is shot through the entire plan of redemption. God never once set aside his justice. There is a hell because God is just. And people go to heaven because God is just. Our sins are counted to Christ, so that he died in our place. His life and his death counted to us, that we might live. We are not forgiven and given eternal life because God waved a magic wand and decided he would just overlook our sins. He has not overlooked the smallest speck of your sin. The good news of the cross is that the tiniest little speck of your sin, and all of the great big sins as well, have been paid for by the perfect and final sacrifice. We were not saved on a whim because God decided one day he might as well have mercy on sinners. We are saved because God sent his Son to become the curse for us. Every last lustful look, every proud thought, every gossiping tongue, God demands justice for all of it. And the resurrection of Jesus bears witness to the glorious good news that all the demands of justice have been met so that Christ would be the first to conquer death, but not the last. Divine satisfaction through divine self-substitution.” – Kevin DeYoung

“Since [Christ’s blood is] of so great a person as the Son of God, it is as powerful to cleanse us from the greatest as the least [of our sins].” – Stephen Charnock

“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.” – Hubert Humphrey

“You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.” – Charles H. Spurgeon

“When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.” – A.W. Tozer

“When we see that the whole sum of our salvation, and every single part of it, are comprehended in Christ, we must beware of deriving even the minutest portion of it from any other quarter.” – John Calvin

“Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the self-sufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.” – A. W. Tozer

“There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.” – Ravi Zacharias

“I simply argue that the cross should be raised again at the center of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the church. I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles but on a cross between two thieves; on the town’s garbage heap; at a crossroad so cosmopolitan they had to write his title in Hebrew and Latin and Greek, at the kind of place where cynics talk smut, and thieves curse, and soldiers gamble. Because that is where he died. And that is what he died for. And that is what he died about. That is where churchmen ought to be and what churchmen ought to be about.” – George MacLeod, quoted by Richard C. Halverson, Perspective, 6 January 1988.

“For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.” – Thomas Carlyle

“God would never permit any evil if he could not bring good out of evil.” – Thomas Watson

What will it cost to be a true Christian? “it will cost him his self-righteousness. He must cast away all pride and high thoughts, and conceit of his own goodness. He must be content to go to heaven as a poor sinner, saved only by free grace, and owing all to the merit and righteousness of another.” – J. C. Ryle

“Courage is about doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Eddie Rickenbacker

“The religion of some people is constrained, like the cold bath when used, not for pleasure, but from necessity for health, into which one goes with reluctance, and is glad when able to get out. But religion to the true believer is like water to a fish; it is his element; he lives in it and could not live out of it.” – John Newton

“We know how God would act if he were in our place — he has been in our place.” – A.W. Tozer

“God’s sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.” – Jerry Bridges

“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t.” – John Piper

“You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.” – Charles H. Spurgeon

“Now faith cometh not of our free-will; but is the gift of God, given us by grace, ere there be any will in our hearts to do the law of God. And why God giveth …it not every man, I can give no reckoning of his judgments. But well I know, I never deserved it, nor prepared myself unto it; but ran another way clean contrary in my blindness, and sought not that way; but he sought me, and found me out, and showed it me, and therewith drew me to him. And I bow the knees of my heart unto God night and day, that he will show it all other men; and I suffer all that I can, to be a servant to open their eyes. For well I know they cannot see of themselves, before God hath prevented them with his grace.” – William Tyndale

“When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.” – A.W. Tozer

“When we see that the whole sum of our salvation, and every single part of it, are comprehended in Christ, we must beware of deriving even the minutest portion of it from any other quarter.” – John Calvin

“Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the self-sufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.” – A. W. Tozer

“There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.” – Ravi Zacharias

“When the devil accuses us and says, ‘You are a sinner and therefore damned,’ we should answer, ‘Because you say I am a sinner, I will be righteous and saved.’ ‘No,’ says the devil, ‘you will be damned.’ And I reply, ‘No, for I fly to Christ, who gave himself for my sins. Satan, you will not prevail against me when you try to terrify me by setting forth the greatness of my sins and try to bring me into heaviness, distrust, despair, hatred, contempt and blasphemy against God. On the contrary, when you say I am a sinner, you give me armor and weapons against yourself, so that with your own sword I may cut your throat and tread you under my feet, for Christ died for sinners. . . . As often as you object that I am a sinner, so often you remind me of the benefit of Christ my Redeemer, on whose shoulders, and not on mine, lie all my sins. So when you say I am a sinner, you do not terrify me but comfort me immeasurably.’” – Martin Luther, commenting on Galatians 1:4, “. . . the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins.”

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us — for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree.” Galatians 3:13

“To the Jews, this was absolute blasphemy: a cursed Messiah on a cursed cross. No wonder the cross was such a stumbling block to them! To put it in the most shocking and yet perhaps the most accurate way, the apostolic message was about a God-damned Messiah.” – Philip Graham Ryken, Galatians (Phillipsburg, 2005), page 115.

“The main condition of spiritual life, according to 1 John 1, is fellowship with God; and the prerequisite for communion with God is ‘walking in the light,’ which may be defined as an honest heart awareness of the truth about the condition of one’s life and the truth of God’s grace, which both covers sin and provides a dynamic of sanctifying transformation. Live orthodoxy is found not among those who wave the flag of commitment to biblicism but among those who live in this focused spotlight of applied biblical truth.” – Richard F. Lovelace, Dynamics of Spiritual Life (Downers Grove, 1979), page 284.

“God frees us from our bankruptcy only by paying our debts on Christ’s cross. More than that. He has not only cancelled the debt, but also destroyed the document on which it was recorded.” – John R. W. Stott, The Cross of Christ (Downers Grove, 1986), page 234.

“The measure of biblical truth that we have grasped is not determined by the size of our heads, but the breadth of our hearts.” – Paul Washer

“I believe the highest purpose of the preacher is to faithfully exposit Scripture to his hearers. Herein lies the power of God in His church. We must not look to trendy gimmicks, manipulative methods, or shallow entertainment, but in the proclamation of biblical truth.” – Steven Lawson

“The first and often the only person to be healed by forgiveness is the person who does the forgiveness… When we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner that we set free was us!” – Lewis Smedes

“No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.” – Kevin DeYoung

“Christians are not divided between those who have creeds and confessions and those who do not; rather, they are divided between those who have public creeds and confessions that are written down and exist as public documents, subject to public scrutiny, evaluation, and critique, and those who have private creeds and confessions that are often improvised, unwritten, and thus not open to public scrutiny, not susceptible to evaluation and, crucially and ironically, not, therefore, subject to testing by Scripture to see whether they are true.” – Carl Trueman, The Creedal Imperative

“When we come to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, do we realize that it was the greatest manifestation of the energy of the strength of God’s might that the world has ever known?… From the moment God puts His hand upon a man and brings him to the new birth and new life, He continues to exert this power in him… If we are to understand this power which is working in us we must see it as it is illustrated in what God has done in Christ, in the power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead. What a display of power that was!” Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Ephesians – God’s Ultimate Purpose)

“I pray it will never be said of me ‘He stood up for what he believed in’ but ‘He bowed down before Whom he believed in.'” – R. C. Sproul, Jr

“God’s sovereign will toward His elect is irreversible and irrevocable.” – Steven Lawson

“No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.” – R.C. Sproul

“God’s Word is a record of prayer; of praying men and their achievements, of the Divine warrant of prayer and of the encouragement given to those who pray. No o…ne can read the instances, commands, examples, multiform statements which concern themselves with prayer, without realizing that the cause of God, and the success of His work in this world is committed to prayer; that praying men have been God’s vice-regents on earth; that prayerless men have never been used of Him.” – E. M. Bounds

“The most determinative factor in your life you is what comes into your mind when you think about God. Everything flows from this one truth.” – Steve Lawson

“God, through the gospel and by the Holy Spirit, sends out this general call to the whole world, but He calls certain people in particular, and no man is a Christian unless he is called in this special sense. They are people in whom the Word of God has been made effective; it has come to them in power, it has come as a command which they find to be irresistible, and they readily respond to it with the whole of their being.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

In his last moments, Martin Luther was asked by his friend Justus Jonas, “Do you want to die standing firm on Christ and the doctrine you have taught?” He answered emphatically, “Yes!” Luther’s last words were: “We are beggars. This is true.”

“Christ is not ‘mighty to save’ those who repent, but is mighty to make men repent.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.” – Martin Luther

“Doctrine divides…but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God’s people who celebrate the truth of God together.” – R.C. Sproul

“Christ died not in order to make God love us, but because He did love His people. Calvary is the supreme demonstration of Divine love. Whenever you are tempted to doubt the love of God, Christian reader, go back to Calvary.” – A. W. Pink

“Those whom God has chosen to salvation by Christ, are those whom God specially loves in this world. They are the jewels among mankind. He cares more for them than for kings on their thrones, if kings are not converted. He hears their prayers. He orders all the events of nations and the issues of wars for their good, and their sanctification. He keeps them by His Spirit. He allows neither man nor devil to pluck them out of His hand. Whatever tribulation comes on the world, God’s elect are safe. May we never rest until we know that we are of this blessed number! There breathes not the man or woman who can prove that he is not one. The promises of the Gospel are open to all. May we give diligence to make our calling and election sure! God’s elect are a people who cry unto Him night and day. When Paul saw the faith, and hope, and love of the Thessalonians, then he knew ‘their election of God.'” (1 Thess. 1:4; Luke 18:7.) – J.C. Ryle

“If Christ is not first with you, Christ is nothing to you.” C. H. Spurgeon

“Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.” – R.C. Sproul

“The farmer does not sift his wheat because he dislikes it, but just the opposite; he sifts it because it is precious. And thou, child of God, thy trials and changes, and constant catastrophes, and afflictions, are no proofs of want of affection on the part of the Most High, but the very contrary.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.” – R.C. Sproul

“This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.” – Martin Luther

“There has been no such thing as freedom since Adam fell. Adam was free. Not a single child of Adam has ever been free… Man’s will has been bound ever since the fall of Adam. By nature man is not free to choose God.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Romans – Assurance)

“He who as Son of God had made the Law with his Father put Himself under it in order to redeem us.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Romans – Assurance)

“Aristotle did not invent logic any more than Columbus invented America.” – R.C. Sproul

“A sight of His death – if it is a true sight – is the death of all love of sin.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.” – R.C. Sproul

“In fact, there is no worship of God that is better than the hearing of a sermon.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him.” – P.T Forsyth