“Scripture compromised in the church
Leads to Scripture abandoned in the home.
Scripture abandoned in the home
Leads to a generation no different than the world”
(from a display in the Creation Museum)
“His goodness without His greatness might fail us;
His greatness without His goodness would terrify us.”
(Thomas Adams, 1583-1652)
“Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer (The Cost of Discipleship)
“There can be no right obedience yielded to God without them (Scriptures). Men that walk in the dark must needs stumble; and the works that are wrought in the dark will never abide the light; for there is no working rightly by guess in this matter. All proper obedience to God must be learned from the Scriptures.” (Thomas Boston, 1676-1732)
“Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.”
(Phillips Brooks,1835-1893)
Grace and glory differ very little.
The one is the seed — the other is the flower.
Grace is glory militant — glory is grace triumphant.
(Thomas Brooks, 1608-1680)
Satan promises the best — but pays with the worst!
He promises honor — and pays with disgrace.
He promises pleasure — and pays with pain.
He promises profit — and pays with loss.
He promises life — and pays with death.
But God pays as He promises — all His payments are made in pure gold!
(Thomas Brooks, 1608-1680)
“There are no people under heaven who take any real pleasure, delight, contentment and satisfaction in God – but those who are genuinely holy.” (Thomas Brooks, 1608-1680)
“A sinner’s face never shines so beautiful,
as when it is bedewed with penitential tears” (Thomas Brooks, 1608-1680)
“Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.”
(Thomas Brooks, 1608-1680)
“No man is uneducated who knows the Bible,
and no one is truly educated who is ignorant of its teachings.”
(Samuel Chadwick,1860-1932)
“The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.” (Samuel Chadwick, 1860-1932)
“Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.”
(Stephen Charnock, 1628-1680)
How long beneath the law I lay
In bondage and distress!
I toiled the precept to obey,
But toiled without success.
To see the law by Christ fulfilled,
And hear His pardoning voice,
Changes a slave into a child,
And duty into choice.
(William Cowper,1731-1800)
“Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end” (Nathaniel Emmons, 1745-1840)
“The law breaks the hard heart, but the gospel melts it. A stone duly broken, may be still a hard stone; but the gospel melts.” (Ralph Erskine, 1685-1752)
The Lord’s Supper comes to us like a ring plucked off from Christ’s finger, or a bracelet from His arm; or rather like His picture from His breast, delivered to us with such words as these,
“As oft as you look on this, remember me.” (John Flavel, 1627-1691)
“When Christ reveals Himself there is satisfaction in the slenderest portion, and without Christ there I emptiness in the greatest fullness.” (Alexander Grosse, 1596-1658)
“My concern is not that most of our people are such worldlings that the cause of Christ does not attract them; it is rather that they are such weak Christians that anything else attracts them!” (Vance Havner, 1901-1986)
“America is a disaster area homewise. The automobile took the family out of the home, and television brought the world into the home.” (Vance Havner, 1901-1986)
“This is why Jesus is so offensive. If you talk about God, everyone smiles and nods approval. The concept of God is general and benign–no real threat. But if you talk about Jesus, sparks fly. Jesus is God with a face, not the fill-in-the-blank variety we conform to our own tastes. He can’t be twisted and distorted and stuffed in our back pocket. And that bothers people.” (Greg Koukle)
“A holy life is a voice; it speaks when the tongue is silent, and is either a constant attraction or a perpetual reproof.” (Leighton, 1613-1684)
Christ says “Give me ALL. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want YOU. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it…I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: My own will shall become yours.” (C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“One essential symptom of the regenerate life is a permanent, and permanently horrified, perception of one’s natural and (it seems) unalterable corruption. The true Christian’s nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool?”
(C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“Love in the Christian sense does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.” (C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end.
If you look for comfort, you will not get either comfort or truth—
only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with,
and in the end, despair.”
(C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.”
(C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
Let us not be afraid of failure;
but, let us be afraid of being successful in things that don’t matter.
(C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“Die before you die. There is no chance after”. (C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“…we shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.”
(C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“Our leisure, even our play, is a matter of serious concern. There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.” (C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth, or falsehood, becomes a matter of life and death to you.” (C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.”
(C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“To walk out of His will is to walk into nowhere.”
(C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“Which of the world’s religions gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshipping oneself is the best. …As you probably know, I haven’t always been a Christian. I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.” (C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
There are only two kinds of people in the end:
those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ —
and those to whom God says, in the end,
‘thy will be done.’ (C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“Does it matter to a man dying in a desert, by which choice of route he missed the only well?
(C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:
put second things first and we lose both first and second things.”
(C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge. When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.” (C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“After the first few steps in the Christian life, we realize that everything which really needs to be done in our souls can be done only by God.” (C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“The Christian’s nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.”
(C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“We must lay before Him what is in us,
not what ought to be in us.”
(C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
Christ says “Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it… I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.”
(C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)
“…Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance,
and if true, of infinite importance.
The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
(C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God,
it will make in the end no difference what you have chosen instead…
Does it matter to a man dying in a desert,
by which choice of route he missed the only well?”
(C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“He cannot bless us unless He has us. When we try to keep within us an area that is our own, we try to keep an area of death. Therefore, in love, He claims all. There’s no bargaining with Him.” (C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“I cannot, by direct moral effort, give myself new motives.
After the first few steps in the Christian life we realize that everything which really needs to be done in our souls can be done only by God.” (C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live forever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live forever.” (C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“Truth is Truth, even if no one but God fully grasps it.”
(C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him.”
(C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“Our whole being by its very nature is one vast need; incomplete, preparatory, empty yet cluttered, crying out for Him who can untie things that are now knotted together and tie up things that are still dangling loose.” (C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963)
“There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man’s faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.”
(Martyn Lloyd-Jones,1899-1981)
“If the Scriptures do thoroughly direct men to know God in Christ, and save their own souls, why should we look any further? Now, they do not only furnish every private Christian with this knowledge; but the man of God, who is to instruct others, he needeth look no further, but is furnished out of the Scripture with all things necessary to discharge his office. Therefore here we fix and rest, we have a sufficient rule, and a full record of all necessary Christian doctrine.”
(Thomas Manton, 1620-1677)
“Take up your work, then, you who seem to be the nobodies, those tireless and faithful servants who draw little attention. Do it with a brave heart, looking up to Him who for many years toiled at the carpenter’s bench. Do everything as in His presence and to win His approval. Look for opportunities to cheer your fellow workers. Do not complain or grumble, but let your heart rise from your toil to God, –your Maker, Savior, Friend.”
(F.B.Meyer, 1847-1929)
Ah! we live 
in an enemy’s land! We tread upon enchanted ground, and breathe an infected air! Without the supporting power of God and the preservatives of the Gospel–we would surely faint and fall. Oh! my Lord, keep me. I adore and wonder that I have been kept, that I stand–for surely I am no wiser or better than some who have fallen.
(John Newton, 1725-1807)
I am a sinner, a vile one – but a sinner believing in Jesus!
I am a silly sheep – but I have a gracious, watchful Shepherd!
I am a dull scholar – but I have a Master who can make the dullest learn.
(John Newton, 1725-1807)
“Like sheep, we are weak, destitute, defenseless, prone to wander, unable to return, and always surrounded with wolves. But all is made up in the fullness, ability, wisdom, compassion, care, and faithfulness of our great Shepherd…Ah, what a subject is this! I trust it is the joy of your heart.” (John Newton, 1725-1807)
“This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus” (John Newton, 1725-1807)
“Be not discouraged; usefulness and trials, comforts and crosses, strength and exercise, go together. But remember He has said, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee; be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” When you get to Heaven, you will not complain of the way by which the Lord brought you.” (John Newton, 1725-1807)
“…the depravity of the heart, impedes us when we would do good, and pollutes our best intended services with evil….the more vile we are in our own eyes, the more precious He will be to us; the deep-rooted sense of the evil of our hearts is necessary to preclude boasting, and to make us willing to give the whole glory of our salvation where it is due.”
(John Newton, 1725-1807)
Assurance is the result of a competent spiritual knowledge of the person and work of Christ as revealed in the gospel, and a consciousness of dependence on Him and His work alone for salvation.” (John Newton, 1725-1807)
The human heart is so bad, that it cannot be worse, and of itself, is only capable of producing noxious weeds, and nourishing venomous creatures! (John Newton, 1725-1807)
“[God] often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes, directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He wounds in order to heal, kills that He may make alive, casts down when He designs to raise, brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and prospects, when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.” (John Newton, 1725-1807)
“The more we know ourselves, the more we shall prize and love Jesus…Our sins are many but His mercies are more; our sins are great but His righteousness is greater; we are weak but He is power… This is God’s way; you are not called to buy but to beg; not to be strong in yourself but in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.” (John Newton, 1725-1807)
“Though sin wars, it shall not reign; and though it breaks our peace, it cannot separate from His love.”
(John Newton, 1725-1807)
“We judge of things by their present appearances,
but the Lord sees them in their consequences.”
(John Newton, 1725-1807)
“…daily crosses and disappointments…convince that we can do nothing of ourselves; all are needful, and barely sufficient to prevent our hearts from being overrun with pride, self-dependence, and security.” (John Newton, 1725-1807)
“How comfortable it is, when trouble is near, to know that the Lord is near likewise…”
(John Newton, 1725-1807)
“Thou art coming to a King,
Large petitions with you bring.
For His grace and power are such,
None can ever ask too much.”
(John Newton, 1725-1807)
“[God] often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes, directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He wounds in order to heal, kills that He may make alive, casts down when He designs to raise, brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and prospects, when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.” (John Newton, 1725-1807)
“It is necessary that our sharpest trials should sometimes spring from our dearest comforts, else we should be in danger of forgetting ourselves, and setting up our rest in this world.”
(John Newton, 1725-1807)
“Ignorance of God and of ourselves is the great principle and cause of all our disquietments; and, this arises mostly not from want of light and instruction, but for want of consideration and application;” (John Owen, 1616-1683)
“The preachers’ commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the centre of that counsel, and the Puritans knew that the traveler through the Bible landscape misses his way as soon as he loses sight of the hill called Calvary.” (J.I. Packer)
“A man who is intimate with God, will never be intimidated by men.”
“If weak in prayer, we are weak everywhere.”
(Leonard Ravenhill, 1907-1994)
“If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.” (Leonard Ravenhill, 1907-1994)
“The corruption of our nature by the fall and our recovery through Jesus Christ are the two leading truths in the Christian religion.” (William Romaine, 1714-1795)
“The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.”
(Samuel Rutherford, 1600-1661)
“Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books, there are plenty of them. Take heed what you read.” (J.C. Ryle, 1816-1900)
“A cheap Christianity without a cross will in the end prove to be a useless Christianity without a crown.”
(J.C. Ryle, 1816-1900)
“Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption. If a man does not realize the dangerous nature of his soul’s diseases, you cannot wonder if he is content with false or imperfect remedies.”
(J.C. Ryle, 1816-1900)
“There are choices to be made from hour to hour, from day to day. The choices parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, friends, and teachers make affect lives, and lives affect history.” (Edith Schaeffer, 1914-2013)
“In the relay of passing Truth to the next generation and interceding for the next generation, God alone would be able to trace exactly who dropped the stick, so to speak. Dropping the stick in these crucial relays has made a difference in history.” (Edith Schaeffer, 1914-2013)
“All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
(Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860)
“Is it any wonder that Christ should be so much undesired – when He is so much unknown” (William Secker 1660).
“An ignorant man neither cares what he does – nor knows where he is going. When such a one is taken off the earth – he cannot be taken into heaven”! (William Secker, 1660)
“The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn’t concerned to protect His own integrity. He’s a kind of wishy-washy deity, who just waves a wand of forgiveness over everybody. No. For God to forgive you is a very costly matter. It cost the sacrifice of His own Son.” (R.C. Sproule)
“Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God’s Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.” (R. C. Sproule)
“Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow” (Charles Spurgeon, 1834-1892)
“As we struggle in our personal Valley of Humiliation doesn’t Satan come to us, trying to reinforce our negative feelings by telling us to not waste any time praying useless prayers or singing empty praise songs or quoting archaic scripture. He tells our hearts that it is all a waste of time. We are in this dark place because God has rejected us. We are sinful and have disqualified ourselves. All of our beseeching, seeking God’s face is for naught. It is all a waste of time. Satan loves to kick those who are wounded and down.”
(Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1834-1892)
“The new creation is as much and entirely the work of God as the old creation”
(Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
“Soldiers of Christ, put on your armor.
Let not this day pass without striking a blow for Jesus.”
(Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1834-1892)
“Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching – where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.”
(Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1834-1892)
“A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t”
(Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1834-1892)
“No one knows the true God in the real sense of knowledge except through Jesus Christ, for no man comes unto the Father but by the Son. But even if he could know God, in a measure, apart from the Revelation of Him in Christ Jesus, it would be a knowledge of terror that would make him flee away and avoid God! It would not be life to our souls to know God apart from His Son, Jesus Christ! We must know the Christ whom He has sent or our knowledge does not bring eternal life to us.” (Charles H. Spurgeon 1895, Sermon #2396)
“Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are an unsaved person. The Savior will sanctify His people, renew them, give them a hatred of sin, and a love of holiness. The grace that does not make a man better than others is a worthless counterfeit. Christ saves His people, not IN their sins, but FROM their sins. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.”
(Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1834-1892)
“Unless you have a very clear sense of the utter ruin and spiritual death of your children, you will be incapable of being made a blessing to them.” (Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1834-1892)
“Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living – that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo.”
(Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1834-1892)
“I venture to say that the bulk of Christians spend more time in reading the newspaper than they do reading the Word of God.” (Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1834-1892)
“…if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying “I am saved” is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.” (Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1834-1892)
“Although the path of life for the Christian is not easy, never turn aside. Turning away from God’s will and God’s road is always turning to something else which leads into a wilderness.” (Ed Wallen)
“This world can no more give us peace and answers than a thorn bush can give you grapes. DarkLand [our times of hardship and suffering] is filled with thorn bushes of False Promise — you reach in to grasp what looks good, but come out with pain, cuts, and infection. The Word of God gives real answers, but sadly, even Christians have to learn the hard way that the only thorn bush that provides answers and peace was woven into a cruel crown and pressed into the head of the Prince of Peace. Our crown, on His head; our nails, in His hands and feet; His blood, our salvation, healing, peace, and joy.” (Ed Wallen)
“We are to become disciples – learners of Christ. The more we learn from Him, the more we will be like Him; as soldiers, we are trained by the Captain of our salvation. We are inexorably joined to One Who has all power, all love, and is for us. Although we’re slow learners and don’t have any real abilities in ourselves, we cannot fail. Our Teacher gives us His Word, interprets it to us, and then throws us into the battle to make His lessons real in us.” (Ed Wallen)
“There are at least two reasons the writers of scripture emphasized doctrine.
First, it is the foundation of our faith. Saving faith is based on an accurate knowledge of God, and the man who thinks right about God will not easily think wrong about other things.
Second, Truth gives assurance. Assurance is based on knowledge.” (Ed Wallen)
“Christ is King. There is no joint-kingship of Christ and me.” (Ed Wallen)
“Christ will be all in all, or nothing at all.”
(Thomas Watson, 1620-1686)
“There is much corruption in the best heart; affliction
does by degrees work it out, as the fire works out the
dross from the gold… ”
(Thomas Watson, 1620-1686)
“Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset;
eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.”
(Thomas Watson, 1620-1686)
“The Word of God is as a garden of fruit and flowers—luscious with the sweetness, penciled with the beauty, and fragrant with the perfume of –CHRIST. All its shadows, types, and prophecies, all its doctrines, precepts, and promises testify of HIM. Search the Scriptures in whatever part, or view them from whatever standpoint you may, of CHRIST they speak, and to CHRIST they lead.” (Octavius Winslow, 1808-1878).
“Dear child of God, your afflictions, your trials, your crosses, your losses, your sorrows, all, ALL are in your heavenly Father’s hand, and they cannot come until sent by Him!”
(Octavius Winslow, 1808-1878)
“Christ didn’t come to make bad men good; Christ came to make dead men live.”
(Ravi Zacharias)
“The real challenge is to ponder how we come to terms with God’s sovereign working and how we respond to His plan and calling. … God often reinforces our faith after we trust Him, not before.” (Ravi Zacharias)
“Once you begin to see God’s hand in your life, you will know that His workmanship within you and through you was tailor-made just for you. His design for your life pulls together every thread of your existence into a magnificent work of art. Every thread matters and has a specific purpose.” (Ravi Zacharias)
“The revelation of God in the holy Scriptures gives us the written description by which all other assertions about God must be measured.” (Ravi Zacharias)
“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.”
(Author unknown)
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth,
he will either quit being mistaken, or cease to be honest. (Author Unknown)