"Let the days of your temptations be days of strong cries and supplications." -John Flavel.
"The Bible is the writing of the living God; each letter was penned with an Almighty finger." — Charles Spurgeon
The way of the transgressor is hard. Obedience is often harder — but its rewards are eternal.
"If we love people, we will warn them of the consequences of dying in their sins." R.C. Sproul
“While in past ages faithfulness was measured by continuity, every new movement has to prove itself in the market by the extent to which it breaks away from everything that has gone before it.” — Michael Horton, Ordinary, 68.
God is not obliged. He has made no promise but yet 'tis his pleasure often to answer the prayers of those who are full of hypocrisy and all manner of abomination.
Jonathan Edwards
"In my sermon preparation, I milked a lot of cows but I made my own butter; and if I poured some cream out of other people's pails, I gave them credit."
- Warren Wiersbe
"Our dependence is upon the Almighty God, incarnate in human form, by whom all things were created, and by whom all things consist." - Charles Spurgeon
The marketing and church growth strategy of the Apostle Paul: "Jesus Christ and Him crucified."
God's Word is not subject to human revision. It needs no amendment to suit anyone's cultural preferences. John MacArthur The Scripture Cannot be Broken p.15
God has always done His greatest work through a remnant. Get rid of the notion of numbers. - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Communion with God is the right arm of our strength, and if this is broken, we are weak as water. -C.H. Spurgeon
Jesus wants us to see beyond the physical need to our spiritual need for sustenance. We need to be fed, and Jesus offers Himself as the Sustainer of life. Ray Bentley
“How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!” — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
do you know what's wrong with us Calvinists? We know the truth of God intellectually, but not the God of truth intimately. We know about God, but do we really know God?
"We lean upon [Christ] as our King. He shall fight our battles for us, and manage all the affairs of our heavenly citizenship." - Charles Spurgeon
The reason for this dealing of Christ with his church, in parting with all others for them, is, because he loves her. She is precious and honorable in his sight; thence he puts this great esteem upon her.
Jesus Christ is still the same; and so is his love. - John Owen
If you will not believe forgiveness [is available to you from God], pretend what you please, it is in truth because you hate repentance. You do deceive your souls when you pretend you come not up to repentance because you cannot believe in forgiveness.
—John Owen, Works 6:440
It is not thinkable that men should have faith & not pray. —AW Tozer
Does man awaken himself? Does he pierce his own conscience? Does he render himself miserable & wretched? The thing is impossible & contradictory. It is the “power from on high” [Luke 24:49] that produces this. -Richard Watson (pub. 1857)
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