“A Pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.” – A.W. Tozer

“The problem with socialism is that government finally runs out of other people’s money.” – Margaret Thatcher

“To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did, not by putting aside His greatness, but by taking to Himself our littleness.” – Thomas Aquinas, Compendium of Theology

“The doctrines of grace create a culture of grace, a social environment of acceptance and hope and freedom and joy.” – Ray Ortlund

“Those who run from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.” – John Bunyan

“The saving power [of the cross] does not depend on faith being added to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it.” – J. I. Packer

“He should be in no doubt that any ability he has and however much he has derives more from his devotion to prayer than his dedication to oratory; and so, by praying for himself and for those he is about to address, he must become a man of prayer before becoming a man of words. As the hour his address approaches, before he opens his thrusting lips he should lift his thirsting soul to God so that he may utter what he has drunk in and pour out what has filled him.” – Saint Augustine, On Christian Teaching (Oxford University Press, 1997), 121

“As the minister speaks to the ear, Christ speaks, opens, and unlocks the heart at the same time; and gives it power to open, not from itself, but from Christ…. The manner of working of the reasonable creature, is to work freely by a sweet inclination, not by violence. Therefore when he works the work of conversion, he doth it in a sweet manner, though it be mighty for the efficaciousness of it.” – Richard Sibbes

“As has often been remarked, the stone at the mouth of the sepulcher was rolled to one side, not to let our Lord out of the sepulcher but to allow the witnesses to enter and behold that empty tomb.” – Albert N. Martin

“A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“Be masters of your Bibles, brethren. Whatever other works you have not searched, be at home with the writings of the prophets and apostles….” – C. H. Spurgeon

“We should not have so much disputing against the doctrine of election, or hear it condemned (even by good men) as a doctrine of devils. For my own part, I cannot see how true humbleness of mind can be attained without a knowledge of it. And though I will not say, that everyone who denies election is a bad man, yet I will say . . . it is a very bad sign. Such a one, whoever he be, I think cannot truly know himself. For if we deny election we must, partly at least, glory in ourselves. But our redemption is so ordered that no flesh should glory in the Divine presence. And hence it is, that the pride of man opposes this doctrine because according to this doctrine and no other, ‘he that glories, must glory only in the Lord.’ But what shall I say? Election is a mystery that shines with such resplendent brightness that, to make use of the words of one who has drunk deeply of his electing love, it dazzles the weak eyes even of some of God’s dear children.” – George Whitefield, ‘Christ the Believer’s Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption,’ in The Sermons of George Whitefield (Crossway, 2012), 2:214-25

“We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us, than under the staff that comforts us.” – Stephen Charnock

“The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.” – Psalm 12:8

“We tend to be most vulnerable to temptation when we’re tired, isolated, lonely, discouraged, depressed, angry, or struggling in our relationships; especially with our mate. Don’t think for a moment demons don’t know this or will hesitate to pounce on us in those very times. “When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left Him until an opportune time” (Luke 4:13).” – Randy Alcorn

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your own riches but to show him his own.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.” – John Knox

“The mystery of iniquity is at work in the world during this interim time, and it is not always clear how its malignant work is being checked, overridden, or woven into the glorious purposes of God. We need to remember, though, that while Judas betrayed Christ, and woe to him for doing so, it was God’s plan that Christ was thus betrayed. Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.” – David F. Wells, The Courage to Be Protestant

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” – Dietrich Bonheoffer

2 Corinthians 1:9: Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.

John Piper: Adversity by its very nature is the removal of things on which our comfort and hope have rested and so it will either result in anger toward God or greater reliance on him alone for our peace. And his purpose for us in adversity is not that we get angry or discouraged, but that our hope shift off earthly things onto God. God’s main purpose in all adversity is to make us stop trusting in ourselves or any man.

“There is no pit so deep but Christ is deeper still.” – Corrie Ten Boom

“He that is down needs fear no fall, he that is low no pride; he that is humble ever shall have God to be his guide.” – John Bunyan

“He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.” – Matthew Henry

“Learn to know Christ and him crucified. Learn to sing to him, and say, ‘Lord Jesus, you are my righteousness, I am your sin. You have taken upon yourself what is mine and given me what is yours. You have become what you were not so that I might become what I was not.’” – Martin Luther

“Faith is the accepting of what God gives. Faith is the believing what God says. Faith is the trusting to what Jesus has done. Only do this and you are saved, as surely as you are alive!” – C.H. Spurgeon

“God’s love is unconditional for those He intends to adopt as His children. He does not make us meet a condition (faith) before He will love us, as the Arminian affirms. Rather, He meets the condition for us in Christ by doing for us what we are unable to do for ourselves, that is, giving us everything we need for salvation, including a new heart to believe. (Ezek 36:26).” – John Hendryx

“This little expression, ‘It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you’re sincere,’ is a monstrous lie.” – R.C. Sproul

“The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world.” – John Piper

“If you know Christ and him crucified, you know enough to make you happy, supposing you know nothing else. And without this, all your other knowledge cannot keep you from being everlastingly miserable.” -George Whitefield, in a sermon on 1 Cor. 2:2 in 1739, in The Sermons of George Whitefield (ed. Lee Gatiss; Crossway, 2012), 2:238

“The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.” – A.W. Tozer

“You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences — salvation is all of the Grace of God — damnation is all of the will of man.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.” – George Whitefield

“Nothing serves to verify the intimacy and constancy of the Redeemer’s preoccupation with the security of his people, nothing assures us of his unchanging love more than the tenderness which his heavenly priesthood bespeaks and particularly as it comes to expression in intercession for us.” —John Murray, The Epistle to the Romans (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1968), 330.

“Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.” – Erwin Lutzer

“… you resemble what you revere, either for ruin or restoration.” – Greg Beale

“Our responsibility is to get God’s word to their ears. Only God can get the word from their ears to their heart.” – Albert Mohler

“God does not forbid sexual sin because he’s a killjoy, but because he opposes what kills joy.” – John Piper

“Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.” – Kevin DeYoung

“How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.” – Sinclair Ferguson

“I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure help in the day of need. I want them to be diligent in studying their Bibles, and becoming familiar with its contents, in order that the grand old Book may stand by them and talk with them when all earthly friends fail.” ~ J.C. Ryle

“The Lord’s mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Prayerless souls are Christless souls, Christless souls are Graceless souls and Graceless souls shall soon be damned souls. See your peril, you that neglect altogether the blessed privilege of prayer! You are in the bonds of iniquity, you are in the gall of bitterness. God deliver you, for Hisname’s sake!” – C. H. Spurgeon

“Salvation is not verified by a past act, but by present fruitfulness.” – John MacArthur

“All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.” – George Whitefield

“When a rape results in a pregnancy, this means that we are now dealing with three people instead of two. Two of those three are innocent, and one of them is guilty. Take a case of violent rape. The pro-choice ghouls want to do two things — first, they want to go easy on the guilty one, refusing to execute him, while executing one of the innocent parties for something his father did, and secondly, they want to make out anyone who objects to this arrangement as the callused one.” – Douglas Wilson

“The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.” – R.C. Sproul

“When God writes our names in the ‘Lamb’s Book of Life’ He doesn’t do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.” – R.C. Sproul

“Missions exists because worship doesn’t.”
“Prayer is a war-time walkie-talkie, not a domestic intercom.”
“The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.”
“Suffering is not just the price many must pay, it is God’s strategy for victory.” – John Piper

“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.” – Will Durant

“Since Eden, there hasn’t been a single election that is NOT a choice of the lesser of two (or more) evils.” – Dan Phillips

“It is our firm belief, that what is commonly called Calvinism, is neither more nor less than the good old gospel of the Puritans, the Martyrs, the Apostles, and of our Lord Jesus Christ.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“What would have become of me, if the Lord had not stuffed that pillow with thorns on which I was disposed to rest?” – John Newton

‘Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.’ (Matt. 11:28)…. “You who please yourselves with being good enough now, who are not weary and heavy laden with a sense of your sins here, will be weary and heavy laden with a sense of your punishment hereafter.” – George Whitefield, ‘Christ the Only Rest for the Weary and Heavy Laden,’ in The Sermons of George Whitefield (ed. Lee Gatiss; 2 vols; Crossway, 2012), 1:360

“The Bible teaches that man’s will is enslaved to sin, incapable of submitting to God’s law, and dependent upon God’s regenerating grace.” – Dr. James White

In 1521 Martin Luther wrote a letter to his scrupulous friend, Philip Melanchthon. At one point Luther wrote: God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong; but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin… the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world. No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day. Do you think such an exalted Lamb paid merely a small price with a meager sacrifice for our sins?

“The resurrection did not turn a tragic defeat into a happy ending. No, the resurrection demonstrated the cross was a victory.” – Terry Virgo

“Justice is what we deserve. Grace is always and ever undeserved. If we deserved it, it would not be grace.” – R. C. Sproul

“Doctrine is but the drawing of the bow, application is the hitting of the mark.” – Thomas Manton

“If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, ‘My bride never talks to me.'” – R.C. Sproul

“The fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being (homo), and it is almost a monstrous crime to rob it of life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man’s house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.” – John Calvin, commenting on Exodus 21:22-25

“I’ve never read in the Old Testament where God shows up and the people are bored, or that anybody walks away saying, ‘this was irrelevant.'” – R.C. Sproul

“By entertaining of strange persons, men sometimes entertain angels unawares: but by entertaining of strange doctrines, many have entertained devils unaware.” – John Flavel

“Do not merely speak the truth, but live truthfully, openly and honestly with one another.” – Dr. Sinclair B. Ferguson

“If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.” – Oswald Chambers

“Any gospel which says only what you must do and never announces what Christ has done is no gospel at all.” – Kevin DeYoung

“As soon as you think God owes us mercy, you’re not thinking about mercy any more.” – R.C. Sproul

?”There is no more monstrous idea than the idea that you can fall away from grace, that you can ever be born again and then be damned. The character of God is involved! It is impossible. His object is not merely to save me, it is to vindicate His own being and nature, and I am being used to that end. The end is absolutely certain because God’s character is involved in it.” – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin

“Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.” – John Calvin

“There is no refuge from God, but there is refuge in God.” – Alistair Begg

“Christianity is greatest when it is hated by the world.” – Ignatius of Antioch

“Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.” – D.L. Moody

“People who are in a hurry to get out of the university and start earning money or serving the church or preaching the gospel have no idea of the infinite value of spending years of leisure conversing with the greatest minds and souls of the past, ripening and sharpening and enlarging their powers of thinking.” – Charles Malik, “The Other Side of Evangelism,” Christianity Today, 7 November 1980, page 40.

“Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession…. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Henry Martyn (1781-1812), Anglican missionary, was told by a Muslim friend about a painting of Christ bowing down to Muhammad, begging for mercy. Martyn tells what happened next:

“I was cut to the soul at this blasphemy. Mirza Seid Ali perceived that I was considerably disordered and asked what it was that was so offensive? I told him that ‘I could not endure existence if Jesus was not glorified; it would be hell to me if he were to be always thus dishonored.’ He was astonished and again asked ‘Why?’ ‘If anyone pluck out your eyes,’ I replied, ‘there is no saying why you feel pain; it is feeling. It is because I am one with Christ that I am thus dreadfully wounded.’” – Constance E. Padwick, Henry Martyn (London, 1925), page 265

Martyn did not lash out at his Muslim friend. He did not complain. He did not even judge the man. Martyn only felt within himself a personal wound that struck at his own heart, his deepest love. Union with Christ, to Martyn, was more than a doctrinal abstraction. It was his lifeblood, his very identity. He winced with pain, not disgust. He turned away with sorrow, not a burning sense of wrong. It was his Muslim friend that pressed the matter further, seeing that Martyn was “considerably disordered.” Then Martyn spoke, not to correct his friend but only to explain himself.

The gospel goes out in greatest power and purity through love for Christ.