“If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” – Plato

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.” – Michelangelo

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.” – Lord Byron

“We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God – which is another way of saying that our seeking will always fall short unless God’s grace initiates the search and unless God’s call draws us to him and completes the search. The decisive part of our seeking is not our human ascent to God, but his descent to us. Without God’s descent there is no human ascent. The secret of the quest lies not in our brilliance but in his grace.” – Os Guinness, Long Journey Home

“If there is no controversy in your ministry, there is probably very little content to your preaching.” – Al Mohler

“The extent of the atonement is defined by the intent of the atonement.” (Matt. 1:21; Jhn 17:2, 9, 24) – Steve Lawson

“Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual.” Dr. J.I. Packer

When you see that men have been wounded by the law, then it is time to pour in the gospel oil.

“A home with no head is a disaster, one with two is a monstrosity.” – John Blanchard

“The preaching of the pure Word of God is the first mark of a healthy Church.” – J.C. Ryle

“God’s sovereign election is the truth most loathed and reviled by the majority of those claiming to be believers. Let it be plainly announced that salvation originated not in the will of man but in the will of God that were it not so none would or could be saved. For as the result of the Fall man has lost all desire and will unto that which is good and that even the elect themselves have to be made willing and loud will be the cries of indignation against such teaching.” A.W. Pink

“The more we understand how righteous God is the less we can deceive ourselves about ourselves.” – R.C. Sproul

“Ambitions for God, if they are to be worthy, can never be modest.” – John Stott

“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

“Seminary does not teach everything the pastor needs to know so that they don’t have to read another book in their life, but it exposes the pastor to the beginning of a lifetime of study.” – D.A. Carson

“Begin early to teach, for children begin early to sin.” – C.H. Spurgeon

“Prayerfulness is Calvinism at its best. It is a simple, open, honest declaration in the presence of God of total helplessness.” – Martin Holdt

“People ask me, ‘Why pray if God is sovereign?’ I respond, ‘Why pray if He isn’t?” – Dr. Michael Horton

“There is something worse than holding our tongue while the lost run headlong into hell. It is preaching to them an unbiblical Gospel.” – Paul Washer

“What is “glory”?… Glory is the beauty of God unveiled! Glory is the resplendent radiance of His power and His personality. Glory is all of God that makes God, God, and shows Him to be worthy of our praise and our boasting and our trust and our hope and our confidence and our joy! Glory is the external elegance of the internal excellencies of God. Glory is what you see and experience and feel when God goes public with His beauty!” – Sam Storms
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“The Roman Catholic Church condemns “sola fide!” (Latin phrase meaning justification by faith alone). Now if, please understand this, information pills if “sola fide” is the gospel, then the Roman Catholic Church has condemned the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now, nobody who went to the Council of Trent, as a delegate, went there with the intention of condemning the gospel. The theologians of Rome really believed that they were defending the gospel and that the Protestants had in fact committed apostasy. And I admire the Church, the Roman communion of the 16th century for at least understanding what apparently people don’t understand today, and that is what is at stake here. That they understood that somebody is under the anathema of God! And we can be as nice, and as pleasant, and as gentle, and as loving, and as charitable, and tolerant as we can possibly be, but it’s not going to change that folks. Somebody is preaching a different gospel! And when Rome condemned the Protestant declaration of “Justification by faith alone” I believe, Rome, when placing the anathema on “sola fide,” placed the anathema of God upon themselves. I agree with his [John MacArthur’s] assessment, that the institution [the Roman Catholic Church] is apostate!” – R.C. Sproul

It’s not the mere profession of faith that gets you into the kingdom, it’s the possession. We must possess what we profess.

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” – C.S. Lewis

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.” – Lord Byron

“We’re not saved from low self-esteem…we are saved from the wrath of God that rightly hangs over every unconverted person.” – Steven Lawson

“Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.” – Alexander Whyte

“Your Christian life will not progress further than your knowledge of God’s Word.” – Steven Lawson

“The trouble arises when poets and others set up this good thing as an absolute. Which many do. An innocent and well-intentioned emphasis on the importance of being-in-love with one’s spouse (i.e. its superiority over lust or ambition as a basis for marriage) is in fact widely twisted into the doctrine that only being-in-love sanctifies marriage and that therefore as soon as you are tired of your spouse you get a divorce. Thus the overpraising of a finite good, the pretense that it is absolute, defeats itself and corrupts the very good it set out to exalt, reducing marriage to mere concubinage. Treat ‘Love’ as a god and you in fact make it a fiend.” – C. S. Lewis – a 1942 letter to Daphne Harwood, in The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 511

“Apart from our Mediator, any knowledge of God would be deadly. We would only know Him as our worst nightmare.” – Michael Horton

“Christian affections are like Mary’s precious ointment that she poured on Christ’s head, that filled the whole house with a sweet odor. That was poured out of an alabaster box; so gracious affections flow out to Christ out of a pure heart. That was poured out of a broken box; until the box was broken, the ointment could not flow, nor diffuse its odor; so gracious affections flow out of a broken heart. Gracious affections are also like those of Mary Magdalene (Luke 7 at the latter end), who also pours precious ointment on Christ, out of an alabaster broken box, anointing therewith the feet of Jesus, when she had washed them with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head. All gracious affections that are a sweet odor to Christ, and that fill the soul of a Christian with a heavenly sweetness and fragrancy, are broken-hearted affections. A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable, and full of glory, is a humble broken-hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit; and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behavior.” – Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections
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