"When men commit sin they are the devil's servants; when they plead for it they are the devil's attorneys, and he will give them a fee."- Thomas Watson
"Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate need today is not for intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people."- Richard Foster
"One of the enemy's favorite tactics is to question the Word of God and undermine your faith. 'Has God indeed said...' is his usual approach (Gen. 3:1). Satan knows that once you start questioning God's Word, the next step is to deny God's Word; and that opens the way for him to substitute one of his own lies."- Warren Wiersbe
"Some people when they say that a thing is meant 'metaphorically' conclude from this that it is hardly meant at all. They rightly think that Christ spoke metaphorically when he told us to carry the cross: they wrongly conclude that carrying the cross means nothing more than leading a respectable life and subscribing moderately to charities."- C. S. Lewis
"Be content, ye are His wheat growing in our Lord's field. And if wheat, ye must go under our Lord's threshing instrument, in His barn-floor, and through His sieve, and through His mill to be bruised, as the Prince of your salvation, Jesus was (Isa. 53:9), that ye may be found good bread in your Lord's house."- Samuel Rutherford
"The reward of the American dream is safety, security, and success found in more comfort, better stuff, and greater prosperity. But the reward of Christ trumps all these things and beckons us to live for an eternal safety, security, and satisfaction that far outweigh everything this world has to offer."- David Platt
"A perfect man w[oul]d never act from a sense of duty; he'd always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people), like a crutch, which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it's idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc) can do the journey on their own!"- C. S. Lewis
"If the price of labor is one dollar for the day, then to waste half the day in idleness is to defraud the employer of half a dollar; this is as dishonest as to take half a dollar from his chest."- Noah Webster
"We don't read the Bible to mark 'precious promises,' although hundreds of them are there; nor do we read the Bible to understand 'Biblical doctrine,' although doctrine is essential. We read the Bible to get to know the heart and mind of God."- Warren Wiersbe
"If Mark 10 teaches anything, it teaches us that Jesus does sometimes call people to sell everything they have and give it to the poor. This means he might call you or me to do this. I love the way one writer put it. He wrote, 'That Jesus did not command all his followers to sell all their possessions gives comfort only to the kind of people to whom he would issue that command.'"- David Platt
"The biblical prescription for resolving the conflict between flesh and Spirit is not personal discipline or self-control. It is the power of the Holy Spirit."- Chuck Smith
"No matter what task He calls you to do, God will use them to help somebody if you do them in the power of the Spirit and for His glory. You may not even know about it! Bt you can trust your Father to see to it that nothing is ever wasted that is done in the will of God and for the love of God."- Warren Wiersbe
"We are, by nature, receivers. Even if we have a desire to learn God's Word, we still listen from a default self-centered mind-set that is always asking, What can I get out of this? But as we have seen, this is unbiblical Christianity. What if we changed the question whenever we gathered to learn God's Word? What if we began to think, How can I listen to his Word so that I am equipped to teach this Word to others?"- David Platt
