Quotes

[JM]

“Subject to none, influenced by none, absolutely independent: God does as He pleases, only as He pleases. None can thwart Him, none can hinder Him.” A.W. Pink

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What is the only reason that sin has any power in your life? Because you love it. What overcomes the power of sin? A surpassing love -- Bryan Chapell

When we have a fear of God, it will make our worship serious; when we have a joy in God, it will make our worship durable. -- Stephen Charnock

Animo magno nihil magnum—To a great mind nothing is great. -- Seneca

For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology. -- C.H. Spurgeon

Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious -- Calvin

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God --Martin Luther

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing --Martin Luther

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls, and in order to practice --Jonathan Edwards

The doctrines of grace humble a man without degrading him and exalt a man without inflating him --Charles Hodge

Rome makes the church ultimate, the Anabaptists make the conscience ultimate and the Reformers made the Word of God ultimate --Greg Price

If the Scripture has more than one meaning it has no meaning at all --John Owen

The Kingdom must be advanced not merely extensively, but also intensively. The Church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man --Greg Bahnsen

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious. --John Calvin

“I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth" - Martin Luther

John Knox – A man with God is always in the majority.

John Winthrop - Be of good comfort; the hardest that can come shall be a means to mortify this body of corruption, which is a thousand times more dangerous to us than any outward tribulation, and to bring us into nearer communion with our Lord Jesus Christ, and more assurance of His kingdom

"The best Christian is still a poor Christian” - R.B. Kuiper

"I preached as never sure to preach again; and as a dying man to dying men" - Richard Baxter

Many a plain, honest, unlearned disciple of Christ, by meditation, experience, prayers, and especially obedience, attains to a more clear, sound, and useful knowledge of the word of God, than some great scholars with all their wit and learning. -- Matthew Henry

"I'd rather walk with fifty who truly believe than a thousand who have been inoculated with just enough of Christ not to want the whole of HIM" -- Jonathan Edwards

Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers --John Owen

 

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A. W. Tozer:

Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.

Abraham Lincoln:

That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Alexis deTocqueville:

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts - the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

Benjamin Franklin:

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

C. I. Scofield:

The church has failed to follow her appointed pathway of separation, holiness, heavenliness and testimony to an absent but coming Christ; she has turned aside from that purpose to the work of civilizing the world, building magnificent temples, and acquiring earthly power and wealth, and, in this way, has ceased to follow in the footsteps of Him who had not where to lay His head.

C. S. Lewis:

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Dean Stanley:

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

G. K. Chesterton:

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Joan B. Campbell:

[Jesus'] ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made -- life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control?

John Wesley:

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

Kathleen Norris:

Perfection, in a Christian sense, means becoming mature enough to give ourselves to others.

Leo Tolstoy:

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the State, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars.

Madeleine L'Engle:

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

Marian Wright Edelman:

When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, "Let all children come unto me."

Minna Canth:

Christianity has been buried inside the walls of churches and secured with the shackles of dogmatism. Let it be liberated to come into the midst of us and teach us freedom, equality and love.

Otto von Bismarck:

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

 

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