“It shall greatly helpe ye to understande Scripture, If thou mark Not only what is spoken or wrytten, But of whom, And to whom, With what words, At what time, Where, To what intent, With what circumstances, Considering what goeth before, And what followeth.” – John Wycliffe

“Sin is the dare of God’s justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love.” – John Bunyan

“Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.” – J.C. Ryle

“I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“They are all Calvinists there, every soul of them. They may have been Arminians on earth; thousands and millions of them were; but they are not after they get there, for here is their song, ‘Salvation unto our God, which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.'” – C. H. Spurgeon

“Do not then spend the strength of your zeal for your religion in censuring others. The man that is most busy in censuring others is always least employed in examining himself.” – Thomas Lye

“If you refuse to submit to the authority of Christ…you’re taking on the Lord God omnipotent.” – R.C. Sproul

“Prayer will make you leave off sinning, or sinning will make you leave off praying.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“Many men, after a long conversion, see more of the workings of sin in their hearts than ever they did before or at their first conversion. Now, such men have not an increase of sin, but an increase of illumination and light” (Love, The Mortified Christian, 47).

“To steal from one author is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.” – Wilson Mizner

“The promise was between the Father and the Son, from all eternity, concerning your soul in particular.” – Jeremiah Burroughs

“There is always a set of grumblers about who think they could preach better and manage Sunday schools better than anybody else. They are the people who generally do nothing at all.” – C. H. Spurgeon

“He glorifies Himself toward the creature also in two ways: 1. By appearing to their understanding. 2. In communicating Himself to their hearts, and in their rejoicing and delighting in and enjoying the manifestations which He makes of Himself… God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in. When those that see it delight in it, God is more glorified than if they only see it. His glory is then received by the whole soul, both by the understanding and by the heart.” – Jonathan Edwards

“True holy water is not that which the pope sprinkles, but is distilled from the penitent eye.” – Thomas Watson

“…the accuracy of our pictures of God is not tested by our orthodoxy or our testimonies but by the truths we count on in real life. It is demonstrated when the heat is on, the chips are down, and reality seems to be breathing down our necks. What we presuppose at such moments is our real picture of God, and this may be very different from what we profess to believe about God.” – Os Guinness

“It is not your hold of Christ that saves, but his hold of you!” – C. H. Spurgeon

“The man or woman who is born of God, who is regenerate, simply does not and cannot continue – abide – in a life of sin. They may backslide temporarily, but if they are born of God they will come back. It is as certain as that they have been born again. It is the way to test whether or not someone is born again.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Great Doctrines of the Bible)

“He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.” – Jonathan Edwards
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“Subject to none, influenced by none, absolutely independent: God does as He pleases, only as He pleases. None can thwart Him, none can hinder Him.” – A. W. Pink

“True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.” – George Whitefield

“Grace doesn’t free you from the call to obey, but liberates you from the delusion that you can obey your way into God’s acceptance.” – P. Tripp

“Christians are in themselves no wiser than are other men. What they have, they have by grace. They must be ‘all things to all men.’ But it is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them. Christians are bound to tell men the truth about themselves; that is the only way of bringing them to recognize the mercy, the compassion, of Christ. For if men are told the truth about themselves, and if they are warned against the false remedies that establish men in their wickedness, then, by the power of the Spirit of God, they will flee to the Christ through whom alone they must be saved.” – Cornelius Van Til

“In modern day evangelism, this precious doctrine [of regeneration] has been reduced to nothing more than a human decision to raise one’s hand, walk an aisle, or pray a ‘sinner’s prayer.’ As a result, the majority of Americans believe that they’ve been ‘born again’ (i.e., regenerated) even though their thoughts, words, and deeds are a continual contradiction to the nature and will of God.” – Paul Washer

“A soul dead in sin is insensible to any real distress because of sin; a heart destitute of love to God, feels no distress because it does not love Him. A graceless sinner never longs for grace: an unrenewed person never thirsts for holiness, and a dead soul never breathes after life. Take heart, then, O believer, for your soul-sorrow is the prelude to your soul’s eternal joy.” – Octavius Winslow

John 6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

“It is a moral and spiritual impossibility for a person to come to Christ apart from the Father’s drawing. What we find now is that it is a moral and spiritual impossibility for the person given by the Father to the Son NOT to come. There is, by Jesus’ verdict, the invariable conjunction of these two diverse kinds of action: ‘All that the Father giveth me shall come to me…’ There is invincible efficacy in the Father’s action, and this means grace irresistible.” – John Murray

Addressing those who convert from a profession of faith in the Gospel to Roman Catholicism, Dr. James White speaks of “… the standard ‘conversionist blindspot’ problems that we have seen over and over again with those who think that jumping into the arms of Romanism will give them the certainty they have come to conclude God’s Word and Spirit are incapable of providing, especially the obvious one: your fallible choice to follow Rome (which is NOT the ‘only game in town’) means that your level of certainty can never rise above the level of your own fallible choice.”

“I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion is already born.” – Ronald Reagan
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“Although my memory’s fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.” – John Newton

“The devil is aware that one hour of close, spiritual and hearty converse with God in prayer, is able to pull down what he hath been contriving and building many a year.” – John Flavel

“The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God!” – C. H. Spurgeon

“All who are saved are saved as a result of what God does. All who are lost are lost as a result of what they do.” – Don Fortner

“To the Arminian, Christ can never truly be Savior in this life. At best, He is Probation Officer.” – Dan Phillips

“Some men cannot endure to hear the Doctrine of Election. I suppose they like to choose their own wives, but they are not willing that Christ should select His bride, the Church!” – C. H. Spurgeon

“The doctrine of providence teaches Christians that they are never in the grip of blind forces (fortune, chance, luck, fate); all that happens to them is divinely planned, and each event comes as a new summons to trust, obey, and rejoice, knowing that all is for one’s spiritual and eternal good (Rom. 8:28).” J. I. Packer

“It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of tempatation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I’m not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.” – Alistair Begg

“A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to savingly trust in a Divine object.” – A.W. Pink, Studies On Saving Faith

“When God hardens hearts He gives them their freedom to exercise the evil of their own desires.” – R.C. Sproul

“To sum up, man cannot without sacrilege claim for himself even a crumb of righteousness, for just so much is plucked and taken away from the glory of God’s righteousness. We must hold this as a universal principle: Whoever glories in himself glories against God.” – John Calvin

“The reason the church tries so many other things besides preaching Christ is because it suspects the kingdom can be established some other way. But there is no other way. People will not come into the kingdom because they like the minister, support the children’s program, or enjoy the music. They may come into a church that way, but not into the kingdom. The only way people ever come into God’s kingdom is by hearing His heralds proclaim a crucified King.” – Philip Graham Ryken

“I’ve often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it!” Sinclair Ferguson, cited in Letham, The Holy Trinity, 375
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