"Christ's blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls." -
John Owen
Christianity isn't true because it's relevant. It's relevant because it's true.
Timothy Keller
Don't tell me that the gospel hasn't the same power it had of old! Don't tell me that men need any different kind of preaching! What we should do is cry down sin and lift up Jesus, God's remedy for sin.
D.L. Moody
It should be said of us as of the church at Corinth, “Touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you.” Be a proportionate giver, then, and a willing giver.
— Charles Spurgeon
A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world." — Charles Spurgeon
“God will not miss anyone in Heaven. There is no one whom God wishes to save that is not saved.” —
Voddie Baucham
Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God's judgment, hating what He hates, loving what He loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word. -
JC Ryle
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. —
C.H. Spurgeon
God must deny Christ’s payment before He can deny thy pardon. —
Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 6:442
A huge part of preaching is just saying what people already know, but emphatically. In a distracting, uncertain world, our souls need the “thus saith the Lord” -ness of preaching.
"There is not a leaf that trembles from the tree in autumn unless it is piloted by the plan and purpose of the Lord." —
Charles Spurgeon
God is happiness; happiness is not God. Seek God and you will find happiness; seek happiness and it will slip through your fingers.
"Turn to the Bible, for there is in it the very word you need." —
Charles Spurgeon
Religion can be a profound and sincere seeking of God, it can also be a flight from God, an endeavor to escape from His presence, under the guise of love and obedient service. At the bottom of it lies a relationship, an encounter.
Scripture is quite plain that it is the church, the body of Christ, which forms the organ through which and in which the glorified Christ will reveal his great work of salvation to the world.
Whatever is good in and unto any creature, is an emanation from divine goodness. -
John Owen
There are those who think to make some atonement for their past sins, by their reformation and good behavior in the future... But this is the work of Christ Jesus. His greatest work is to make atonement for sin.
Consider your spiritual mercies and privileges with which the Lord Jesus has invested you, and complain at your providential lot if you can. One of these mercies alone has enough in it to sweeten all your troubles in this world.
God promises that he will be near to those who call upon him in truth, and declares that those who seek him with their whole heart will find him
John Calvin
Many are satisfied to go into the stream of grace ankle-deep when God wants them to swim in it. D.L. Moody
"The more anointing of the Holy Spirit, the more success will the minister have." -
Robert Murray M'Cheyne.
God the Spirit is always meeting us in what appear to us to be new ways, yet always in continuity with the ways in which the triune God has already become self-revealed in the histories of Israel, Jesus, the church, and the world. -
Thomas Oden
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.” -
C.S. Lewis
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith—as breathing is of life.
Jonathan Edwards
“Nothing safeguards the gospel quite like the supernatural community of faith that gospel preaching produces. Lose what is supernatural about that community and, I fear in a generation or so, you lose the gospel.” -
Mark Dever
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