“Faith is our walk, but intimate fellowship is our rest.” – Alistair Begg
“All of heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, while men are the only ones to ignore its meaning.” – Oswald Chambers
“When you lead off a discussion by labeling someone as ‘hateful’ or a ‘bigot’ you don’t want a discussion, you want to batter someone into submission.” – Michael Newnham
“I can think of no New Testament precedent for continuing to identify oneself by sins from which one repented on conversion. Nor do I see compassion in patting someone on the head who dons a title that self-identifies as embracing a sin. Practicing homosexuality is sin; a ‘gay’ is someone embraces perverse desires so as to practice homosexuality; a ‘Christian gay/lesbian/homosexual’ is a contradiction in terms. It is to say ‘I am an unrepentant pursuer of indulging perverse desires of whose indulgence I’ve repented.’ Further, as we’ve often discussed, it’s debatable whether there’s any value to ongoing public reminders of what particular temptations we are fighting. To say you’re a Christian is to say that you are in warfare against fleshly lusts (1 Pet. 2:11). It’s definitional. Sir Aaron said it perfectly: ‘if I had to identify myself by my sinful desires, it would take me a long time to introduce myself.’ Also, it’s doubtful as to whether it would serve any healthy purpose.” – Dan Phillips
“If any man could see his own heart as it is by nature, he would be driven mad: the sight of our disease is not to be borne unless we also see the remedy.” – C. H. Spurgeon
“…there is more to be learned at the foot of the cross than anywhere else in the world.” – J.C. Ryle
“The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.” – George Mueller
“…how it is that the call of the gospel becomes effectual in certain people. … the call becomes effectual in men and women as the result of the Holy Spirit’s work of regeneration. It becomes effectual because in these people there is now a principle which was not there before which enables them to respond to this spiritual truth, this divine truth, that comes to them. And that is the difference between believers and unbelievers, those who are saved and those who are not. The latter have the ‘natural mind’, they are in the flesh, they are not spiritual, and that is why these things mean nothing to them. But they mean everything to the others and that is because they are now spiritual, and they are spiritual as the result of regeneration.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Great Doctrines of the Bible
“It is only an infinite God, and an infinite good, that can fill and satisfy the precious and immortal soul of man.” – Thomas Brooks
“God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God’s heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.” – E.M. Bounds
“Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.” – J.I. Packer
“People often argue that this doctrine of divine election and choice leaves no place for evangelism, for preaching the gospel, for urging people to repent and to believe, and for the use of arguments and persuasions in doing so. But there is no contradiction here any more than there is in saying that since it is God that gives us the crops of corn in the autumn, therefore the farmer need not plough and harrow and sow; the answer to which is that God has ordained both. God has chosen to call out His people by means of evangelism and the preaching of the Word. He ordains the means as well as the end.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Ephesians – God’s Ultimate Purpose
“I confess that I would hardly give a penny for any salvation that I could lose; I would not go across the street to pick up a sort of quarterly or yearly salvation.” – C. H. Spurgeon
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” – Zig Ziglar
“This text is an important text: Matthew 7:1-2 – Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
God could have justly left all mankind to perish in their sin and misery, as He left the angels which kept not their first estate, but according to the good pleasure of His will, He chose in Christ, before the foundation of the world, all whom He purposed to save. “According as he hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love; having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will” (Ephesians 1: 4,5). “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren. Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called; and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified them He also glorified” (Romans 8: 28-30). These verses from among many which could be quoted, and the whole scheme of redemption from Genesis to Revelation, afford infallible and unqualified proof that salvation is of free and sovereign grace.