“You don’t study diligently to make a name for yourself or draw attention to your abilities. Rather, you labor in order that 'in all things God may be glorified (1 Pet. 4:11).” —Taylor Berghuis
"God delights in choosing the least and the last to be his remnant." —Steven Lawson
“Hardship in the Christian life is used by God to transform us more and more into the likeness of Jesus.” —Sinclair Ferguson
No sinner ever comes to Christ until the Holy Spirit first comes to him. -A.W. Pink - The pastor who is not praying is playing-the people who are not praying are straying. -Leonard Ravenhill - The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid. -A.W. Tozer
The king in America-you say, there isn't one. Yes, there is, his name is King Sport and his wife is Queen Entertainment. -Leonard Ravenhill
The gospel isn’t advice, instructions, threats, or warnings. It isn’t our response to the gospel: not our repentance, faith, or obedience. It’s not our story or our testimony. It is the good news of the victory of all God has accomplished for us through Christ by the Spirit.
Because of God’s sovereign grace — even the worst of blaspheming rebels may be turned from his folly and may find Christ. James Montgomery Boice
"Doctrines in the head, without holiness in the life, are of no service." — Charles Spurgeon
“Blessedness has more to do with the disposition of God than with our feelings.”
I am persuaded that, generally, they mourn most [over their sin] who have most assurance. —John Owen, Works 6:550
Many children... shall rise up on the Day of Judgment, and bless their parents for good training, who never gave any signs of having profited by it during their parent's lives. Go forward in faith, and be sure that your labor shall not be altogether thrown away. J. C. Ryle
“If we love people, we will warn them of the consequences of dying in their sins.” R.C. Sproul
A man’s assurance may be as good, as true, when he lies on the earth with a sense of sin, as when he is carried up to the third heaven with a sense of love and foretaste of glory. —Puritan John Owen, Works 6:551
A deep sense of the indwelling power of sin 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 with gospel assurance. —
Puritan John Owen, Works 6:550
"Our financial stewardship is not an 'unspiritual' part of life, disconnected from things that really matter. Rather, stewardship is an aspect of the work we do in the name of our risen Lord on this side of our own resurrection." —Alistair Begg
God’s silence doesn’t represent His absence. Silence is God’s call for you to grow deeper. —
"People say, 'We have no king and queen in America'. I say we have a king in America. His name is Sport, and his wife's name is Entertainment." -Leonard Ravenhill.
Good friends are among our greatest blessings – they may keep us back from much evil, quicken us in our course, speak a word in season, draw us upward, and draw us on. J. C. Ryle
“Any method of evangelism will work if God is in it.” – Leonard Ravenhill
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