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- If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point. (Martin Luther)
- Yet thus life rolls away with too many of us in a course of shapeless idleness. Its recreations constitute its chief business ... amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, to fill up the void of a listless and languid life; and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy. Even old age often finds us pacing in the same round of amusements which our early youth had tracked out. (William Wilberforce)
- For my own part I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand. (C.S. Lewis)
- "General," I remarked, "How is it that you can keep so cool and appear so utterly insensible to danger in such a storm of shell and bullets as rained about you when your hand was hit?" He instantly became grave and reverential in his manner, and answered, in a low tone of great earnestness: "Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me." He added, after a pause, looking me full in the face: "That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave". (Stonewall Jackson)
- For I seek not to understand in order that I may believe; but I believe in order that I may understand, for I believe for this reason: that unless I believe, I cannot understand. (Anselm)
- The fundamental problem is unbelief in the gospel. At the root...of all Christian failures to live right - i.e. not give their money generously, not tell the truth, not care for the poor, not handle worry and anxiety - is the sin under all sins, the sin of unbelief, of not rejoicing deeply in God's grace in Christ, not living out of our new identity in Christ. (Tim Keller)
- Three Latin terms often used to describe [the reformers'] enriched conception of justifying faith are notitia, assensus, and fiducia. Notitia refers to an intellectual understanding about Christ and his gospel. Assensus refers to an intellectual assent to the truth of what is proclaimed in the gospel. But beyond these crucial intellectual acts is fiducia, an act not of the intellect but of the will, which may be described simply as trust. Much more than being a mode of knowledge, faith involves a sincere trust in Christ and his gospel for salvation. (David VanDrunen)
- Americans don't read enough (that's true) and Americans read too much (that's true too). What I mean is that many don't read enough material to really be informed, and yet they read too much because what they do read they often do not stop to assimilate and think through. They whiz through it and get what I call a first-order experience, a sort of mystical feeling, not a genuine understanding. I urge you, with all my soul, in such a day as ours to really, truly learn to read. (Francis A. Schaeffer)
- Holiness is happiness. It is not indeed the mirth of the fool or the gaiety of the thoughtless. But it is the only thing that deserves the name of happiness; the only solid, permanent principle of enjoyment. (Charles Bridges)
- God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him in the midst of loss, not prosperity. (John Piper)
- In the censures of the church, it is more suitable to the spirit of Christ to incline to the milder part, and not to kill a fly on the forehead with a mallet, nor shut men out of heaven for a trifle. (Richard Sibbes)
- Christians don't like to talk about hypocrisy any more than turkeys like to talk about Thanksgiving. (Keith Green)
- The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be. (John Stott)
- All scandalous actions are only thoughts at the first. Ill thoughts are as little thieves, which, creeping in at the window, open the door to greater. Thoughts are the seeds of actions. (Richard Sibbes)
- Faith, without trouble or fighting, is a suspicious faith; for true faith is a fighting, wrestling faith. (Ralph Erskine)
- When sin is your burden, Christ will be your delight. (Thomas Watson)
- First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it. (Thomas Manton)
- Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe. (John Owen)
- Christ is the most cheap physician, he takes no fee. He desires us to bring nothing to him but broken hearts; and when he has cured us he desires us to bestow nothing on him but our love. (Thomas Watson)
- A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant. (Stephen Charnock)
- Husband and wife must delight in the love and company, and lives of each other. When husband and wife take pleasure in each other, it unites them in duty, it helps them with ease to do their work, and bear their burdens; and is a major part of the comfort of marriage. (Richard Baxter)
- He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. (Charles Spurgeon)
- For when you are deeply aware of your sin, and of what an affront it is to God's holiness, and how impossible it is for Him to respond to this sin with anything other than furious wrath -- you can only be overwhelmed with how amazing grace is. (C.J. Mahaney)
- God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill. (William Gurnall)
- The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches. (Charles Hodge)
- If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself. (Augustine of Hippo)
- Every culture has a question that only the Gospel can answer. Listen for the question. (Hal Poe)
- I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. (Matthew Henry)
- Let a man profess what he will -- if his thoughts are generally conversant about earthly and worldly things -- he has an earthly and worldly mind. And if his thoughts are generally conversant about sensual things -- he has a sensual and carnal mind. (John Owen)
- We are not human beings going through a temporary spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings going through a temporary human experience. (Unknown)
- We are far more sinful than we ever imagined, but far more loved than we ever dreamed. (Unknown)
- To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect. (John Owen)
- The church is a laboratory for sacrifice and self-denial. (Rob Bailey)
- It's not that we are sinners because we sin, but rather, we sin because we are sinners. (R.C. Sproul)
- The greatest comfort in life and in death is that I am not my own, but belong body and soul in life and in death to my faithful Saviour Jesus Christ. (Heidelberg Catechism, Question 1)
- Sola gratia ('by grace alone').
- Sola fide ('by faith alone').
- Sola scriptura ('by Scripture alone').
- Solus Christus ('through Christ alone').
- Soli Deo gloria ('glory to God alone')