Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. -J.C. Ryle
Instead of beginning with man and his world and working back to God, we must begin with God and work down to man. -A.W. Pink
From my 1st awakening 2 the Divine life, I felt a particular hunger and thirst after the humility of Jesus Christ -George Whitefield - When we deal seriously with our sins, God will deal gently with us. -C.H. Spurgeon
“That God uses have always been those who have been conscious of their sinfulness.” — Sinclair Ferguson
God’s attributes are diamonds and rubies in the treasure chest of the Holy Scriptures —Beeke and Smalley, 1:533
“We should esteem the treasure of the gospel at a higher rate than ever we have done.” — Richard Sibbes
“What God says is best though all the men in the world are against it.”
Christian in The Pilgrim’s Progress
“In a land that increasingly defies any external authorities, personal faith, and responsibility now mean that no human being—or even council of human beings—can interfere with the individual's personal relationship with God.” — Michael Horton, Ordinary, 180.
“When we see salvation whole—its every single part is found in Christ, we must beware lest we derive the smallest drop from somewhere else.” — Sinclair Ferguson
“Chasing the latest fad for spiritual growth, church growth, and cultural impact, we eventually forget both how to reach the lost and how to keep reached.” — Michael Horton, Ordinary, 178.
“He sees Jesus and clings to him. Seeing this Savior and trusting in him, he feels peace and hope, and willingly does battle against the foes of his soul.” — J. C. Ryle, Fighting for Holiness, 47.
“The underlying and inviolable conviction is that God does not derive any aspect of His being from outside Himself and is not in any way caused to be.” James E. Dolezal, All That Is In God, 1.
"Religion is a man searching for God: Christianity is God seeking man, manifesting Himself to him, drawing Himself unto him. This, I believe is at the back of the Puritan idea of placing in the central position the exposition on the Word in preaching." - Martyn Lloyd Jones
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves Augustine
Poverty, sickness, blindness, loss of goods, let a man be never so low and loathsome, yet if in a state of grace, the Lord takes pleasure in him, and he is near and dear to God Thomas Manton
The evil of sin is the greater evil because it separates from God. It is an aversion from the chiefest good. Affliction doth not separate from God, it is a means to make us draw nigh to him. Thomas Manton
God is the same that ever He was, to all those that ever called upon his name. God is where He was at first: I AM is his name; there is no wrinkle upon the brow of eternity. Thomas Manton
God is an infinite, simple, independent being, the cause of all things, but caused by none Thomas Manton All conditions of life become a snare to us, prosperity, adversity: Either condition has its snares. A garment too short will not cover our nakedness, and too long, ready to trip up our heels Thomas Manton
The pardon comes not to the soul alone, or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only; it is that which he opens the door and enters by, but he comes with a Spirit of life and power. —Puritan John Owen, Works 6:533
"All grace grows as love to the word of God grows." -Philip Henry.
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