"Tomorrow is the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan cares not how spiritual your intentions may be, and how holy your resolutions, if only they are fixed for tomorrow."- J.C. Ryle
"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says in the end, 'Thy will be done.' "- C. S. Lewis
"God's heart is for the world. So when we say we have a heart for the United States, we are admitting that we have a meager 5 percent of God's heart, and we are proud of it. When we say we have a heart for the city we live in, we confess that we have less than 1 percent of God's heart."- David Platt
"It sounds idealistic, I know. Impact the world. But doesn't it also sound biblical? ... The formal definition of impact is "a forcible contact between two things," and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world."- David Platt
"He didn't know anything about me, and he didn't care to find out. What made him irrelevant was his arrogance."- Josh James Riebock
"Learn to believe Christ better than His strokes; Himself and His promises better than His glooms...'For we know that all things work together for good to them that God', ergo, shipwreck, losses, etc., work together for the good of them that love God: hence I infer, that losses, disappointments, ill tongues, loss of friends, houses, or country, are God's workmen, set on work, to work out good to you, out of everything that befalleth you."- Samuel Rutherford
"In interpreting Leviticus, and especially in seeking to apply it to the modern situation, the historical context of the laws should be borne in mind. They are not timeless universal precepts such as are found in the book of Proverbs. The laws of Leviticus were revealed to the covenant nation at a particular phase of their history. They were designed to mold Israel into a holy people in a particular historical environment. Though God's holiness is unchanging, its expression may vary from age to age."- Gordon Wenham
"We are often hindered from giving up our treasures to the Lord out of fear for their safety. . . But we need have no such fear. Our Lord came not to destroy but to save. Everything is safe which we commit to Him, and nothing is really safe which is not so committed."- A. W. Tozer
"This is how God works. He puts his people in positions where they are desperate for His power, and then He shows His provision in ways that display His greatness."- David Platt
"The word compassion comes from two Latin words: passio, meaning 'to suffer,' and cum, meaning 'with.' To say that God has compassion for the victims of injustice is to say that he actually 'suffers with' them. At the root of God's compassion is the fact that he sees, witnesses, directly observes the suffering of the abused."- Gary Haugen
"It is easy to think we humble ourselves before God. Yet, humility toward men will be the only sufficient proof that our humility toward God is real."- Andrew Murray
"If our prayers were heard only in accordance with the idea of God to which we seem to ourselves to pray, how miserably would infinite wants wants be met!"- George MacDonald
"It is a truism today that we are in a crisis of morals. The crisis is not simply that people are doing wrong things; that has been going on since the Fall in Eden. The crisis is the loss of a shared understanding of what is right."- Lewis Smedes
"The worst possible scenario is for our churches to be supposedly 'growing' but with 'members' who have no deep longing to be delivered from the power or sin."- Jim Cymbala
"There is no forgetting of ourselves but in the finding of our deeper, our true self—God's idea of us when He devised us—the Christ in us. Nothing but that self can displace the false, greedy, whining self, of which most of us are so fond and proud. And that self no man can find for himself...'but as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.'"- George MacDonald
"At a rally in 1983 for those opposed to abortion, to me the most moving argument was made by Alison Davis, who described herself as 'a happy spina bifida adult' and spoke from a wheelchair. 'I can think of few concepts more terrifying,' she said, 'than saying that certain people are better off dead, and may therefore be killed for their own good.' One doctor, on hearing her say that she was glad to be alive, 'made the incredible observation that no one can judge their own quality of life, and that other people might well consider a life like mine miserable!'"- John Stott
"Never forget that the blessing of God's Spirit in our lives is not granted to us because one day we became holy enough to deserve His blessing. It came to us when at last we saw the light and simply believed God to keep His Word."- Chuck Smith
"Failure has a way of humbling us, but we've got to be sure we're experiencing true humility and not just punctured pride. Punctured pride says, 'How could this be happening to me?' while true humility says, 'I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.'"- Warren Wiersbe
"The Christian antidote to materialism is not asceticism; austerity for its own sake is a rejection of the good gifts of the Creator."- John Stott
"Discovering the will of God is something like putting a picture puzzle together. God sees the complete picture because He painted it. Nobody has all the pieces of the puzzle, but as we talk and pray and meditate on the Word, each of us fits a piece into the puzzle. Gradually, we start to see the whole picture. Wanting to have our own way is like forcing a puzzle piece into the wrong place. It's dangerous to try to change a picture that God has already planned."- Warren Wiersbe
"The biblical perspective is not 'the survival of the fittest' but 'the protection of the weakest.'"- John Stott
"A true physician only makes incisions in order to effect cures, and a wise man only excites painful emotions in men's minds with the distinct object of blessing their souls."- C. S. Spurgeon
"We need to become global Christians with a global vision, for we have a global God."- John Stott
"I do not think that the road to contentment lies in despising what we have not got. Let us acknowledge all good, all delight that the world holds, and be content without it."- George MacDonald
"Extreme poverty is demeaning; it reduces human beings to the level of animals. To be sure, Christians should be provoked by the idolatry of a Hindu city, as Paul was by the idols in Athens, and moved to evangelism. But, like Jesus when he saw the hungry crowds, we should be moved with compassion to feed them (compare Acts 17:16f. with, e.g., Mark 8:1-3)."- John Stott
"What does it mean to love God 'with all your mind?'" I take it to mean that we direct our thinking in a certain way; namely, our thinking [as Christians] should be wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things."- John Piper*
"Much mental suffering is tied to our false expectations. We may so link our hopes and joys and future to a new job, to a promotion, to certain kinds of success, to prosperity, that when they fail to materialize, we are utterly crushed. But quiet confidence in God alone breeds stability and delight amid 'all the changing scenes of life.'"- D. A. Carson
"In evangelism we should neither try to force people to believe the gospel, nor remain silent as if we were indifferent to their response, nor rely exclusively on the dogmatic proclamation of biblical texts (vital as authoritative biblical exposition is), but rather, like the apostles, we should reason with people from both nature and Scripture, commending God's gospel to them by rational arguments."- John Stott
"When God spoke to Abraham, he listened. When God promised, he trusted. When God commanded, he obeyed."- Britt Merrick
"So if we truly love our neighbours, and want to serve them, our service may oblige us to take (or solicit) political action on their behalf."- John Stott
"I do not mean that God would have even His closest presence make us forget or cease to desire that of our friend. God forbid! The Love of God is the perfecting of every love. He is not the God of oblivion but of eternal remembrance. There is no past with Him."- George MacDonald
"It is astonishing to read Finney's statement in his twenty-third Lecture on Revival that 'the great business of the Church is to reform the world...The Church of Christ was originally organized to be a body of reformers. The very profession of Christianity implies the profession and virtually an oath to do all that can be done for the universal reformation of the world.'"- John Stott
"No man is condemned for anything he has done: he is condemned for continuing to do wrong. He is condemned for not coming out of the darkness, for not coming to the light."- George MacDonald
"The proud are abased and the humble exalted; the rich are impoverished and the poor enriched; the well fed are sent away empty and the hungry filled with good things; powerful rulers are toppled from their thrones, while the powerless and the oppressed are caused to reign like princes. "Who is like the LORD our God?" His thoughts and ways are not ours. He is a topsy-turvy God. He turns the standards and values of the world upside down."- John Stott
"It's been said that people are like trees: the shadow of the tree is reputation, the fruit of the tree is personality, but the roots of the tree are the most important part—character.- Warren Wiersbe
"My conclusion is that, contrary to popular belief, atheism is not primarily an intellectual revolt; it is a moral revolt. Atheists don't find God invisible so much as objectionable. They aren't adjusting their desires to the truth, but rather the truth to fit their desires."- Dinesh D'Souza
"When ministry is your passion, it may be an indication God is calling you to ministry leadership. If you can't imagine a more fulfilling life than one devoted to leading people in ministry, God may be calling you."- Jeff Iorg
"Christian service means invading a battleground, not a playground; and you and I are the weapons God uses to attack and defeat the enemy. When God used Moses' rod, He needed Moses' hand to lift it. When God used David's sling, He needed David's hand to swing it. When God builds a ministry, He needs somebody's surrendered body to get the job done."- Warren Wiersbe
"The orgasm has become today's secular sacrament."- Dinesh D'Souza
"We are giving in to the dangerous temptation to take the Jesus of the Bible and twist him into a version of Jesus we are more comfortable with.- David Platt
A nice, middle-class, American Jesus. A Jesus who doesn't mind materialism and who would never call us to give away everything we have. A Jesus who would not expect us to forsake our closest relationships so that he receives all our affection. A Jesus who is fine with nominal devotion that does not infringe on our comforts, because, after all, he loves us just the way we are. A Jesus who wants us to be balanced, who wants us to avoid dangerous extremes, and who, for that matter, wants us to avoid danger altogether. A Jesus who brings us comfort and prosperity as we live out our Christian spin on the American dream."
"Fundamentally, the gospel is the revelation of who God is, who we are, and how we can be reconciled to him. Yet in the American dream, where self reigns as king (or queen), we have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires. As a result, we desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical. And in the process we need to examine whether we have misconstrued a proper response to the gospel and maybe even missed the primary reward of the gospel, which is God himself."- David Platt
"Atheism is the opiate of the morally corrupt."- Dinesh D'Souza
"Sincere belief will bring life adjustment. Adjustments are those things we do to make our lives more in harmony with and more aligned with God's heart and God's will. Adjustments are acts of obedience, and obedience and faith are bound up together. It was faith that caused Noah to obey, and moved him to action. Faith moves us to action. If you trust God, you will obey God. What you do is what you truly believe."- Britt Merrick
"The real horror of abortion is not that a woman kills an unborn child but that a woman kills her own unborn child."- Dinesh D'Souza
"The two great graces essential to a saint in this life are faith and repentance. These are the two wings by which he flies to heaven."- Thomas Watson
"One of the greatest handicaps the church has is the witness of unsatisfactory lives of professing Christians. And of the greatest arguments for Christianity is the evidence of obedience in genuine Christian lives. The world has nothing to compare to the beauty, joy and fellowship of a truly Christian home."- Kay Smith
"If my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain, I have no reason to suppose my beliefs are true...and hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms."- J.B.S. Haldane
"Go up beforehand and see your lodging. Look through all your Father's rooms in heaven; in your Father's house are many dwelling-places. Men take a sight of lands ere they buy them. I know Christ hath made the bargain already: but be kind to the house you are going to, and see it often."- Samuel Rutherford
"Morality is universal. Scholars know of no culture, past or present, that does not have a system of morality. Even though moral standards may vary from one culture to another, or even within a particular culture, every culture distinguishes "what is" from "what ought to be." It is impossible for a culture either to rise above morality or to get out from under it."- Dinesh D'Souza
"Imagine I take a blind test in which my task is to identify the genuine follower of Jesus Christ. My choices are an unregenerate individual and you. I'm given two reports detailing conversations, Internet activity, manner of dress, iPod playlists, television habits, hobbies, leisure time, financial transactions, thoughts, passions, and dreams. The question is: Would I be able to tell you apart? Would I discern a difference between you and your unconverted neighbor, coworker, classmate, or friend? Have the lines between Christian and worldly conduct in your life become so indistinguishable that there really is no difference at all?"- C.J. Mahaney
"He gives us the will wherewith to will, and the power to use it, and the help needed to supplement the power:...but we ourselves must will the truth and for that the Lord is waiting....The work is His, be we must take our willing share. When the blossom breaks forth in us, the more it is ours the more it is His."- George MacDonald
"The presence of moral disagreement does not indicate absence of universal morality."- Dinesh D'Souza
"The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time. He treasures us and anticipates our departure from this earth to be with Him—and we wonder, indifferently, how much we have to do for Him to get by."- Francis Chan
"Have you ever thought of prosperity as a test? Randy Alcorn once heard of a leader of the persecuted church in Romania say, 'In my experience, 95 percent of the believers who face the test of persecution pass it, while 95 percent who face the test of prosperity fail it.' Wow! That's a staggering statement. And I know one man who would agree."- Dave Harvey
"The second step is preparing our mind for action. As one who wept over his own faintness of heart, the apostle Peter urges us to begin by preparing our minds for action (Matt. 26:69-75; 1 Pet. 1:13). Such preparation comes from a return to biblical truth. In partcular we need to see what the Bible says about the world's true nature and its real needs."- Gary Haugen
"The trouble with too many of us is that we think God called us to be manufacturers when He really called us to be distributors. He alone has the resources to meet human needs; all we can do is receive His riches and share them with others."- Warren Wiersbe
"Hitler was born Catholic just as Stalin was born into the Russian Orthodox Church and Mao was raised as a Buddhist. These facts prove nothing, as many people reject their religious upbringing as these three men did."- Dinesh D'Souza
"God's compassion fro the victims of injustice extends to all people , all around the world, without distinction or favor. When it comes to loving the people of the world, God suffers under none of our limitations. He doesn't feel so limited for his caring or hierarchies of people, races, communities or nations to love. Rather, as the psalmist writes, 'The LORD works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed' (Psalm 103:6). Indeed God seeks to establish justice 'to save all the afflicted of the land' (Psalm 76:9). The God of the Bible is a God that loves and bleeds justice (cf. Psalm 37:28)."- Gary Haugen
"The greatest motivation we could ever find for being passionately committed to the Church is that Jesus is passionately committed to the Church."- Joshua Harris
"The first step is cultivating a compassionate awareness. Perhaps the next step is our development as children of God is a capacity for compassion permanence - a courageous and generous capacity to remember the needs of an unjust world even when they are out of our immediate sight. God calls us to grow-up capacity to engage a world of oppression with our heart and mind, even though (thankfully) it is not always before our eyes."- Gary Haugen
"Biblical faith is effective, bring the grace of God to bear in the life of the believer. This means it is relational, essentially a personal confidence in the person of God."- Wayne V. McDill
"Ministry takes place when divine resources meet human needs through loving channels to the glory of God."- Warren Wiersbe
"Focusing only on the big three - Stalin, Hitler, and Mao - we have to recognize that atheist regimes have in a single century murdered more than one hundred million people. Religion-inspired killing simply cannot compete with the murders perpetrated by atheist regimes."- Dinesh D'Souza
"Until the gospel events of Good Friday and Easter and the gospel promises of justification and eternal life lead you to behold and embrace God himself as your highest joy, you have not embraced the gospel of God. You have embraced some of his gifts. You have rejoiced over some of his rewards. You have marveled at some of his miracles. But you have not yet been awakened to why the gifts, the rewards, and the miracles have come. They have come for one great reason: that you might behold forever the glory of God in Christ, and by beholding become the kind of person who delights in God above all things, and by delighting display his supreme beauty and worth with ever-increasing brightness and bliss forever."- John Piper
"Biblical Faith is theocentric, centered in the person and will of God, not in the experience of man."- Wayne V. McDill
"Let him who would know the truth of the Maker, become sorely athirst, and drink of the brook by the way—then lift up his heart—not at that moment to the Maker of oxygen and hydrogen, but to the Inventor and Mediator of thirst and water, that man might foresee a little of what his soul might find in God."- George MacDonald
"In the context, of the history of warfare, there is no warrant for considering the Crusades a world historical crime of any sort. The Christians fought to defend themselves from a foreign conquest, while the Muslims fought to continue conquering Christian lands."- Dinesh D'Souza
"The critical question for our generation--and for every generation--is this:If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasure you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there? And the question for Christian leaders is: Do we preach and teach and lead in such a way that people are prepared to hear that question and answer with a resounding No?"- John Piper
"Biblical faith is responsive, calling for a specific and decisive response on the part of the believer to confirm his faith."- Wayne V. McDill
"Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have this day done one thing because He said, 'Do it,' or once abstained because He said, 'Do not do it.' It is simply absurd to say you believe or even to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you."- George MacDonald
"Indeed, historians are virtually unanimous in holding that the whole science versus religion story is a nineteenth century fabrication."- Dinesh, D'Souza
"It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. It's much less demanding to think about God's will for your future than it is to ask Him what He wants you to do in the next ten minutes. It's safer to commit to following Him someday instead of this day"- Francis Chan
"One evangelical cliché has it that God hates the sin but loves the sinner. There is a small element of truth in these words: God has nothing but hate for the sin, but it would be wrong to conclude that God has nothing but hate for the sinner. A difference must be maintained between God's view of sin and his view of the sinner. Nevertheless the cliché (God hates the sin but loves the sinner) is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, his wrath is one the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Rom. 1:18ff.) and on the sinner (John 3:36)."- D.A. Carson
"Biblical faith is supernatural, as the truth is confirmed and faith is awakened by the Holy Spirit."- Wayne V. McDill
"Thou workest perfectly. And if it seems some things are not so well, 'tis but because they are too loving-deep, too lofty-wise, for me, poor child, to understand their laws."- George MacDonald
"God has chosen to exercise a limited domain over earthly rule, not because He is limited, but because He has turned over part of His Kingdom to humans for earthly supervision."-Dinesh D'Souza
"Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy. Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers."- Francis Chan
"How would your prayer change if you began where you normally end? We habitually end our prayers with the phrase 'In Jesus' name, amen.' The amen means 'truly' or even 'I really mean this.' But what are we actually saying? We are supposed to be saying that everything we prayed for was offered 'in Jesus name,' we pray for his sake more than our own. We still present our desires and priorities to Christ's priorities. The final phrase of our prayer reminds us, as well as commits us, to submit all our requests to the glory of Jesus."- Bryan Chapell
"Biblical faith is cognitive, based on the accuracy of one's knowledge and understanding of the nature and intentions of God."- Wayne V. McDill
"But Thou art making me, I thank Thee, Sire. What Thou hast done and doest Thou know'st well, and I will help Thee: gently in the fire I will lie burning; on Thy potter's-wheel I will whirl patient, though my brain should reel. Thy grace shall be enough the grief to quell, and growing strength perfect through weakness dire."- George MacDonald
"Keep in mind that our goal is to grasp the meaning of the text God has intended. We do not create meaning out of a text; rather, we seek to find the meaning that is already there."- J. Scott Duvall
"Biblical faith is objective, having its focus outside of man towards the credibility of God who is beyond him."- Wayne V. McDill
"Sickness hath this advantage, that it draweth our sweet Physician's hand and His holy and soft fingers to touch our withered and leper skins; it is a blessed fever that fetches Christ to the bedside."- Samuel Rutherford
"Wise people know that all their money belongs to God and should be used to show that God, and not money, is their treasure, their comfort, their joy, and their security."- John Piper
"The heart of Christianity is Christ. It is to know Christ, it is to follow Christ, it is to adore Christ. The sum and the substance of the Christian life is Jesus Christ."- Steve Lawson
"John Newton used to tell a whimsical story, and laugh at it, too, of a good woman who said, in order to prove the doctrine of election, ' Ah! sir, the Lord must have loved me before I was born, or else he would not have seen anything in me to love afterwards.' I am sure it is true in my case; I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite certain that, if God had not chosen me, I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love."- Charles Spuregon
"The passion of Christ is not only infinite and almighty, but it is perfect. The atonement in Jesus Christ's blood is perfect; there isn't anything that can be added to it. It is spotless, impeccable, flawless. It is perfect as God is perfect. The holy suffering there on the cross and the resurrection from the dead cancels our sins and abrogates our sentence."- A.W. Tozer
"Sure I am, it is better to be sick, providing Christ come to the bedside and draw the curtains, and say, 'Courage, I am thy salvation,' than to enjoy health, being lusty and strong and never need to be visited of God."- Samuel Rutherford
"'Arrogance' is the condemnation of choice in the political and religious arena for anyone who breaks the rules of Relativism. If you say of anybody's view of God that it is wrong and harmful, you will be accused of arrogance."- John Piper
"A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means.—the only complete realist."- C.S. Lewis
"The passion of Christ is not only infinite but almighty. It's possible for good men to 'almost' do something or 'almost' be something. That is the fix people get in because they are people. But Almighty God is never 'almost' anything. God is always exactly what He is. he is the Almighty One. When the God the Almighty Maker died, all the power there is was in that atonement. You can overstate the efficaciousness of the atonement. You never can exaggerate the power of the cross."- A.W. Tozer
"It is not an open question at all whether I sow or not today. The only question to be decided is: Shall I sow good seed or bad? Every man is always sowing."- Charles Spurgeon
"Legalism means treating Biblical standards of conduct as regulations to be kept by our own power in order to earn God's favor."- John Piper
"Being considered a good teen only requires that we don't do bad stuff like taking drugs, drinking, and partying. But is it enough to be known for the negative things we don't do, or should we also be known for the positive and difficult things that we do?"- Alex and Brett Harris
"His suffering in His own blood for us was infinite. Infinite means without bound and without limit, shoreless, bottomless, topless forever and ever, without any possible measure or limitation. And so the suffering of Jesus and the atonement He made on that cross under that darkening sky was infinite in its power."- A.W. Tozer
"The will of the Father is the yoke He would have us take, and bear also with Him. It is of this yoke that He says, 'It is easy,' of this burden, 'It is light.' He is not saying, 'The yoke I lay upon you is easy, the burden is light'; what He says is, 'The yoke I carry is easy, the burden on My shoulders is light.' With the garden of Gethsemane before Him, with the hour and the power of darkness waiting for Him, He declares His yoke is easy, His burden light."- George MacDonald
"We must taste the pleasure of knowing God before we will experience the God-honoring pain of remorse for sin."- John Piper
"Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world."- C.J. Mahaney
"The paradox of the cross is the consummation of perfect peace and perfect justice became united in one death on a Friday afternoon some two thousand years ago. The death of Christ is timeless and timelessness. The moment Christ died was an actual point in time in the past. He presently offers to live within us and promised to return."- Ravi Zacharias
"The self is given to us that we may sacrifice it: it is ours, that we, like Christ, may have somewhat to offer—not that we should torment it; but that we should deny it; not that we should cross it, but that we should abandon it utterly: then it can no more be vexed....It is to be no longer the regent of our action. We are no more to think, 'What should I like to do?' but 'What would the Living One have me do?'"- George MacDonald
"What I want to argue is that the most powerful and painful acts of radical obedience, beginning with remorse for sin, must be motivated by an awakened taste for pleasure in God, and that the preaching that kindles this must constantly portray God as supremely and everlastingly satisfying."- John Piper
"We may not like the fact that we have this lifelong struggle with sin, but the more we realize and accept it, the better equipped we will be to deal with it. The more we discover about the strength of indwelling sin, the less we feel its effects."- Jerry Bridges
"It is the Lord's kindness that He will take the scum off us in the fire. Who knows how needful winnowing is to us, and what dross we must want ere we enter into the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven, that our knots, our bunches and lumps of pride, and self-love, and idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may throng in, stooping low, and creeping through that narrow and thorny entry."- Samuel Rutherford
"Obedience is the evidence of faith that alone unites us to Christ who is our justifying righteousness."- John Piper
"Be a Christian - and a visible and audible one. The world needs you so badly."- John Piper
"I find crosses Christ's carved work that he marketh out for us, and that with crosses he figureth and portrayeth us to his own image, cutting away pieces of our ill and corruption. Lord cut, Lord carve, Lord wound, Lord do anything that may perfect thy Father's image in us, and make us meet for glory."- Samuel Rutherford
"The more a theologian detaches himself from the basic Hebrew and Greek text of Holy Scripture, the more he detaches himself from the source of real theology! And real theology is the foundation of a fruitful and blessed ministry."- Heinrich Bitzer
“But while I was discoursing near night... a divine influence seemed to attend what was spoken to them in a powerful manner, which caused the persons to cry out in anguish of soul, although I spoke not a word of terror; but, on the contrary, set before them the fullness and all-sufficiency of Christ’s merits, and His willingness to save all that came to Him; and thereupon pressed them to come without delay... ‘Have mercy upon me, have mercy upon me’ was the common cry.”- David Brainerd
"While competence requires that we understand how the biblical writers established validity, it also demands that we wrestle with listeners' questions such as, 'Is that true?' (referring to the Bible). Today we can count on an attitude of questioning and doubt. Our educational system and mass media contribute to this pervasive skepticism. Advertisers have created an audience of doubters who shrug off dogmatic claims and enthusiastic endorsements, no matter who makes them, as nothing more than a pitch from the sponsor. Instead, the Bible states reality as it exists in the universe, as God has made it and as He governs it. We would expect, therefore, the affirmations of Scripture to be demonstrated in the world around us. That is NOT to say that we establish biblical truth by studying sociology, astronomy, or archaeology, but the valid data from these sciences second the truth Scripture. Therefore, to adopt the attitude that a statement is not true because it is in the the Bible is illogical; it is in the Bible because it is true."- Haddon W. Robinson
"I know all created power should sink under me if I should lean down upon it, and therefore it is better to rest on God than sink or fall; and we weak souls must have a bottom and being-place, for we cannot stand out alone. Let us then be wise in our choice and choose and wail our own blessedness, which is to trust in the Lord."- Samuel Rutherford
"When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do; when we depend on education, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get what man can do; when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do."- A.C. Dixon
"Take two hours to ask ten questions of Galations 2:20, and you will gain one hundred times the insight you would have attained by quickly reading thirty pages of the New Testament or any other book. Slow down. Query. Ponder. Chew"- John Piper
"The church community is where we learn to love God and others; where we are strengthened and transformed by truth from the Word; where we're taught to pray, to worship, and to serve; where we can be most certain that we're investing our time and abilities for eternity; where we can grow in our roles as friends, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers. The church is earth's single best place--God's specially designed place--to start over, to grow and to change for the glory of God. That's why I tell people that when they stop dating the church, they're not just adding another item to a long spiritual to-do list. Instead, they're finally getting started on experiencing all the other blessings that Jesus promised to His followers as the fruits of the truly abundant life."- Joshua Harris
"All men seek happiness without exception. They all aim at this goal however different the means they use to attain it.... They will never make the smallest move but with this as its goal. This is the motive of all the actions of all men, even those who contemplate suicide."- Blaise Pascal
"Yet when they [pastors and ministers] fail to preach the Scriptures, they abandon their authority. No longer do they confront their hearers with a word from God. That is why most modern preaching evokes little more than a wide yawn. God is not in it."- Haddon W. Robinson
"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give best, and man will not take it."- George MacDonald
"A pastor who feels competent in himself to produce eternal fruit - which is the only kind that matters - knows neither God nor himself."- John Piper
"The Church will come out of her doldrums when we find out that salvation is not a light bulb only, that it is not an insurance policy against hell only, but that it is a gateway into God and that God is all that we would have and can desire."- A.W. Tozer
"The best things in life are gifts from the One who steadfastly loves us. But an important question to ask ourselves is this: Are we in love with God or just His stuff? Imagine how awful it would feel to have your child say to you, 'I don't really love you or want your love, but I would like my allowance please.' Conversely, what a beautiful gift it is to have the one you love look you in the eye and say, 'I love you. Not your beauty, your money, your family, or your car. Just you.' Can you say that to God? Our love for Him always comes out of His love for us. Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?"- Francis Chan
The cross of Christ is the most revolutionary thing ever to appear among men. We must do something about the cross, and one of two things we can do - flee from it or die upon it."- A.W. Tozer
"The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of His Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in."- George MacDonald
"God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him."- John Piper
"Pray as though everything depends on God, and work as though everything depends on you."- Augustine
"The gospel is not a help-wanted ad. It is a help-available ad."- John Piper
"Jesus was like us in every respect but one: he was without sin. Jesus had to be fully human to serve as our perfectly obedience representative. Just as Jesus had to be human to live in our place, he also had to be human to die in our place."- Wayne A. Grudem
"For the real good of every gift is essential first, that the giver be in the gift—as God always is, for He is love—and next, that the receiver know and receive the giver in the gift. Every gift of God is but a harbinger of His greatest and only sufficing gift—that of Himself."- George MacDonald
"There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny."- Ravi Zacharias
"Through all of the visitations of life - successes or failures - it is not how well you are known or not known. It is not how big your organization is or isn't. It is not even how many sermons one has preached or books one has written or millions of dollars one has accumulated. It is how well do you know Jesus? That is it."- Ravi Zacharias
"Try as he might, Mack could not escape the desperate possibility that the note just might be from God after all, even if the thought of God’s passing notes did not fit well with his theological training. In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted of course. God’s voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellects. It seemed that direct communication with God was something exclusively for the ancients and uncivilized, while educated Westerners’ access to God was mediated and controlled by the intelligentsia. Nobody wanted God in a box, just in a book. Especially an expensive one bound in leather with gilt edges, or was the guilt edges."- William Paul Young
"The church is the vehicle God has chosen to use to raise up leaders for his work in the world. Over the past centuries, we have allowed the church to move to the sidelines, and we are now lamenting the results. Churches all over the world suffer from a serious leadership vacuum. Participating in the process of building churches that build leaders is potentially the most fruitful and fulfilling work you will ever do."- Jeff Jones
"Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon: the thought of Him to whom that prayer goes will purify and correct the desire."- George MacDonald
"There are no accidents in life - just incidents that remind us who is boss."- D. D. Davis
"Confidence in God's power and will to help every believer in Christ, and in the truth of every word that God has spoken, is the grand secret of success and prosperity in our religion."- J.C. Ryle
"The point of your life is to point to Him."- Francis Chan
"Our most important vision system is not our physical eyes. We can be physically blind and live quite well. But when we are spiritually blind, we cannot live as God intended. That is why so many Old Testament prophecies say that the Messiah would come to open blind eyes. That is why he is called the Light. Physically blind people are always aware of their deficit and spend much of their lives learning to live with its limitations. But the Bible says that we can be spiritually blind and yet think that we see quite well. The reality of spiritual blindness has important implications for the Christian. If I am going to see myself clearly, I need to hold up the mirror of God's Word in front of me to open my eyes."- Paul David Tripp
"Nor will God force any door to enter in. He may send a tempest about the house; the wind of His admonishment may burst doors and windows, yea, shake the house to its foundations; but not then, not so, will He enter. The door must be opened b the willing hand, ere the foot of Love will cross the threshold. He watches to see the door move from within. Every tempest is but an assault in the siege of Love."- George MacDonald
"Apologetics is not just giving answers to questions - it is questioning people's answers, and even questioning their questions."- Ravi Zacharias
"When it [Christianity] tells you to feed the hungry it does not give lessons in cookery. When it tells you to read the Scriptures it does not give you lessons in Hebrew or Greek, or even in English grammar. It was never intended to replace or supersede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director which will set them all to the right jobs, and a source of energy which will give them all new life, if only they will put themselves at it's disposal."- C.S. Lewis
"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us."- A.W. Tozer
"Almost everyone within the [Emergent Church] movement has an emphasis on feelings and affections over against linear thought and rationality; on experience over against truth; on inclusion over against exclusion; on participation over against individualism and the heroic loner. New forms of worship or alterations in our vocabulary or other changes involved suggest there is an unorthodoxy in winning postmoderns to Christ. What is crucial is the gospel, expressed clearly in the preaching of the world and the lives of those in the church, communicated lovingly and patiently in worship and witness, and reflected in the lives of disciples who are growing in Christ-likeness. Churches should be aware of what is happening in the culture, how those around them are thinking, and how best to communicate to them. They should consider if they are making the gospel clear and intelligible, and if their worship and life together honor Christ."- John Hammett
"One of the reasons our world is in the mess it's in today is because Christians have been apathetic about the darkness moving toward them. We've tolerated evil."- Kay Smith
"If you speak to a hurting world, you will never lack for an audience."- Ravi Zacharias
"Again, Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live forever."- C.S. Lewis
"Only after we are thoroughly convinced that God's Word is powerful enough to save (without added methods or techniques) will we be able to do away with the man-made altar call system. But when we do, we are able to see God work in people's lives without our manipulative interference. As a result, all of the glory goes to the Lord--and we can concentrate on being faithful in urgently inviting people to Christ rather than being numerically successful."- Carey Hardy
"I must feel the truth of hell - that it exists and is terrible and horrible beyond imagining forever and ever. I must feel the truth that once I was as close to hell as I am to the chair I am sitting on - even closer. I must feel the truth that God's wrath was my head. I must feel in my heart that all the righteousness in the universe was on the side of God and against me. I say to you, on the authority of Scripture, remember, remember, remember the horrid condition of being separated from Christ, without hope and without God, on the brink of hell. When the heart no longer feels the truth of hell, the gospel passes from good news to simply news. The intensity of joy is blunted and the heart-spring of love is dried up."- John Piper
"As a cure for the sour, faultfinding attitude I recommend the cultivation of the habit of thankfulness. Thanksgiving has great curative powers. A thankful heart cannot be cynical. "- A. W. Tozer
"Apologetics had to be about much more than answering questions - it had to focus on questioning the questions and clarifying truth claims."- Ravi Zacharias
"The created universe is all about glory. The deepest longing of the human heart and the deepest meaning of heaven and earth are summed up in this: the glory of God. The universe was made to show it, and we were made to see and savor it. Nothing less will do. "- John Piper
"Today's media, especially television, seeks to define reality for us. It wants to tell us how to think about sex, about marriage, about our desires, about sin. The danger of not bringing God's standards to bear in what you watch isn't only that you might see a naked body, but that the values of a sinful world will shape what you're living for."- Joshua Harris
"The world of personal ministry is rooted in three principles: First, we were created with the need for truth outside ourselves to live life properly. Secondly, many interpretive voices compete with God's Word for our hearts' attention. Third, the power of sin has been broken, but the blinding presence of sin remains. Therefore, we need to live in humble, honest community with one another, where personal ministry is part of the daily culture."- Paul David Tripp
"The blessed news is that the God who needs no one has in sovereign condescension stooped to work by and in and through His obedient children."- A. W. Tozer
"God can shape us in any way he pleases. He raised Moses in a palace in order to use him in a desert; he raised Joseph in a desert in order to use him in a palace."- Ravi Zacharias
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth—only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair."-C.S. Lewis
"Many people ask for God's blessing before they partake of a meal, but the Jews were instructed also to give thanks after the meal was eaten. 'When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you' (Deuteronomy 8:10). Why? The answer is in Deuteronomy 6:11-12: 'Then when you eat and are satisfied, be careful that you do not forget the Lord.' When our blessings are more meaningful to us than the God who gave them, we've taken the first step toward idolatry. It delights the heart of God when His children are thankful for the Giver, and not just the gifts."- Warren W. Wiersbe
"No gore, no grace, no glory. All religions that deny the cross nullify the grace of God and lead people to perpetual ruin. Preaching that (nullified) truth ill-fits today's professionalism (among evangelicals). Beware of replacing real truth-based tolerance with spurious professional tolerance."- John Piper
"The farther we push into the sanctuary the greater becomes the danger of self-deception. The deeply religious man is far more vulnerable than the easy-going fellow who takes his religion lightly. This latter may be deceived but he is not likely to be self-deceived."- A. W. Tozer
"Feelings follow belief; belief, then, should follow truth."- Ravi Zacharias
"When I stand before the Throne,-Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Dressed in beauty not my own
When I see Thee as Thou art
Love Thee with unsinning heart
Then, Lord, shall I fully know-
Not till then- how much I owe"
"Christ is praised by being prized. He is magnified as a glorious treasure when He becomes our unrivaled pleasure."- John Piper
"Without faith it is impossible to please God, but not all faith pleases God....For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One....Faith in faith is faith astray. To hope for heaven by means of such faith is to drive in the dark across a deep chasm on a bridge that does not quite reach the other side."- A. W. Tozer
"Someone has said that our sin scorches us most after we have received forgiveness, and not before. Once you realize how much you've been forgiven, you see how great that forgiveness really is."- Ravi Zacharias
"Q. 1. What is the chief end of man?
A. Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever."- Westminster Catechism
"We should all have the passion for reading God's Word of the man in this story. Evangelist Robert L. Sumner, in his book The Wonder of the Word of God, tells of a man in Kansas City who was severely injured in an explosion. His face was badly disfigured, and he lost his eyesight as well as both hands. He had just become a Christian when the accident happened, and one of his greatest disappointments was that he could no longer read the Bible. Then he heard about a lady in England who read braille with her lips. Hoping to do the same, he sent for some books of the Bible in braille. But he discovered that the nerve endings in his lips had been too badly damaged to distinguish the characters. One day, as he brought one of the braille pages to his lips, his tongue happened to touch a few of the raised characters and he could feel them. Like a flash he thought, 'I can read the Bible using my tongue.' At the time Robert Sumner wrote his book, the man had read through the entire Bible four times. If he can do that, can you discipline yourself to read the Bible?"- Donald S. Whitney
"In John 17:17 our Lord does not say, 'Thy word is truth', He remarks rather, 'Thy word is truth'. Earlier in the Gospel of John He had indeed identified Himself as the truth [14:6] 'I am...the truth', were His words. In the present passage, however, when He is not speaking of Himself, but the Word of God, He characterizes that Word as true. Christ is Himself the Truth, and when He speaks of Himself, there is need for Him to employ the definite article. In the prayer, however, He merely intends to characterize the Word of God as truth. 'The Word of God', we may paraphrase, is true; it speaks the truth; the message which it offers is a true message. It is dependable; it is truth. The Word of which He speaks is the message of God; it is information which God has communicated to the world; it is that which God has spoken. The word of God, which Jesus Christ Himself has spoken, is truth."- E.J. Young
"We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because we gaze at the marks of our own soiled feet, and the trail of our own defiled garments....Each, putting his foot in the footprint of the Master, and so defacing it, turns to examine how far his neighbor's footprint corresponds with that which he still calls the Master's, although it is but his own."- George MacDonald
"You can be a thinker without being a believer. You can be a believer without being a thinker. There is a third possibility as well. You can be a believer without being a believer."- Gregory E. Ganssle
"The more we expose our lives to the white-hot sun of His righteous life (for, say, five, ten, fifteen, thirty minutes, or an hour a day), the more His image will be burned into our character— His love, His compassion, His truth, His integrity, His humility."- R. Kent Hughes
"Your worst days are never so bad that you're beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you're beyond the need of God's grace."- Jerry Bridges
"A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent."- John Calvin
