“If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven.” —
Charles Spurgeon
How do few young men realize that their success in life depends more upon what they are than upon what they know? Charles Wesley
A Christian is as much in heaven as he can be, when he sanctifies the holy Sabbath, speaking to God in the congregation by prayer and hearing God speak to him in the preaching of the Word. —Richard Sibbes, Works 4:167
We know but little of true Christianity, if we do not feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people. -
JC Ryle
"What is given to the poor and to the Lord's cause is deposited in the Bank of Eternity." — Charles Spurgeon
“It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.” - C.S. Lewis
Saving faith consists of the complete surrender of my whole being and life to the claims of God upon me -A.W. Pink
Destruction cannot destroy us, famine cannot starve us; but we laugh at both, while God’s mandate shields us. No stones of the field can throw us down, while angels bear us up in their hands... Charles Spurgeon
“The Christian faith is not a philosophy, it is not merely a teaching. It is based on a series of historical events.” — Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Romans 3.21-31
"No society has ever developed tough men during times of peace."
Charles Spurgeon
“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.” -
C.S. Lewis
The elect of old lay in the bosom of God before they were laid on their mothers’ bosoms; and when their infantile weakness had no feet strong enough to carry it, the Lord upheld it.
Charles Spurgeon
All I can do is, as the Lord enables me, to remember you both before him. But there is One whose compassion is infinite.
The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.
Richard Sibbes
No man that is in his right wits will lay open to everyone his soul infirmities, weaknesses, diseases, ailments & griefs, but to the Lord or to some particular person that is wise, faithful, & able to contribute something to his soul’s relief. —
Thomas Brooks, on accountability
Trials are intended . . . to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
“We do not want merely to see beauty ... We want something else which can hardly be put into words — to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.” - C.S. Lewis
Sin cannot be hated for itself, till we have seen the malignity of it in Christ's sufferings.
We do well to reflect upon divine goodness to us in childhood, for it is full of food for gratitude.
Charles Spurgeon
“Gospel duties are to be performed with a Gospel temper.” —
Stephen Charnock
How shall men seek pardon, but under a sense of guilt; cleansing, except they know their pollution? This true repentance, this sense of helplessness, vileness & impending ruin, must precede personal saving faith; so that a man may flee to Christ & to Him alone. -
A. Carman (1891)
We need more Jesus-centered, Gospel-shaped, doctrinal, theological preaching and teaching. Theology and doctrine are practical! God desires his people to live doctrine and theology practically in our lives. -Derwin L. Gray
We do not live by feeling, but by faith. —William Bridge
Christ alone is the way to God, Christ alone is the truth we need, and Christ alone is the way to the life we crave. —Gabe Fluhrer
"The name of Jesus Christ is hell's terror, heaven's delight, and earth's hope." —Charles Spurgeon
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