When an expositor studies his Bible, the Holy Spirit probes the preacher’s life. As a man prepares sermons, God prepares the man. As the expositor masters a passage, he will discover that the truth of that passage in in the hand of the Spirit masters him. - Haddon Robinson
"Biblical exposition does the heavy lifting of building up a church." - David Helm
"Does any power in the universe match God’s power to breathe out worlds or dismiss death simply with words? “Let there be light!” and “Lazarus, come forth!”? No there is nothing like it. Yet this same power is available to the preacher through God’s Word." - Jonathan Leeman
“God sees our suffering and distress, and he tenderly provides what he knows we need, even when we fail to understand what we need. Christians can persevere, knowing the Lord will provide his muscles as he has assured us in the promises of his covenant.” — Stephen Charnock
“From where does hatred of sin come, but from wondrous purity and holiness that cannot endure sin? And when the soul considers that it is one with Christ, it has the same disposition that Christ had.” — Richard Sibbes
“As long as we are in this world, sin will try to sap our love for God and stoke our love for sin. We must do whatever it takes, therefore, to put it to death.” — J. Garrett Kell, Pure in Heart, 142. "Human governments, domestic, civil, & ecclesiastical, are bound to conform to the divine will, the supreme rule of right." John L. Dagg
“Every day we too must look outside ourselves to Christ and see ourselves justified before God because of our representative union with Christ.” — Jerry Bridges, Who Am I, 37-38. “He will bring your sanctification to completion. This is a certain promise because God is making it.” — Deepak Reju
“On our bad days, we tend to think we have lost the favor of God because of our sin. We forget that he no longer counts our sin against us because Jesus has already born that sin in his body on the cross.” — Jerry Bridges, Who Am I, 38. “What things in Christ's death especially reveal themselves to us? Three things: wonderful love, that he died for us; wonderful hatred, that he would die for sin; and wonderful holiness and love of grace.” — Richard Sibbes
You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts. George Whitefield
Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted, George Whitefield
Without absolutes revealed from...God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas... -John Owen -
The modern man would be rich if he possessed even the crumbs that fall from the table of the Puritans. -C.H. Spurgeon -
The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone. -@JCRyle Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness 2 take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly -A.W. Tozer - Infirmities, sickness, even corporeal death, are but trifles in comparison with the moral and spiritual effects of the Fall, -A.W. Pink -
“God in giving Christ to us gave his very heart to us; here is love penciled out in all its glory, and engraved as with the ‘point of a diamond.’”—Thomas Watson
If you know Christ and him crucified, you know enough to make you happy, supposing you know nothing else. And without this, all your other knowledge cannot keep you from being everlastingly miserable. George Whitefield
God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love, and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst! George Whitefield
When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace. George Whitefield If we are not inwardly wrought upon, and changed by the powerful operations of the Holy Spirit, and our moral actions proceed from a principle of a new nature, however, we may call ourselves Christians, we shall be found naked at the great day. George Whitefield
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