God will take nine steps toward us, but He will not take the tenth. He will incline us to repent, but He cannot do our repenting for us.
—AW Tozer
A theologian is one who in a real sense is a scholar taught by God, who speaks of God, about God, and for the sake of the glory of God’s name.
—Herman Bavinck
We shall need to recapture the spirit of worship. We shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness of God & the beauty of Jesus
—AW Tozer
If you want to pray strategically, in a way which would please God, pray that God might raise up men who see the beauty of the Lord our God & would begin to preach it & hold it out to people, instead of offering peace of mind, deliverance from cigarettes, a better job & cottage.
—A. W. Tozer
The Kingdom of God will include everything in heaven and on earth. By the blood of the cross, Christ has reconciled all things to himself and thus to each other (Col. 1:20). Under him as the Head, everything will be gathered into one and recapitulated in him (Eph. 1:10).
—Herman Bavinck
The Christian moral life has faith at its root, the law as its rule, and the honor of God as its goal.
—Herman Bavinck
Gratitude. It is impossible to be too thankful to God, but it might be good to try it.
—AW Tozer
The Sabbath is the best of days; no other day is like it. And the church is the meeting of God with His people; no other gathering can take its place or compensate for its loss.
—Herman Bavinck
God has given us the Holy Spirit to illuminate our minds. He is eyes & understanding to us. We dare not try to get on without Him.
—AW Tozer
God pervades time and every moment of time with his eternity. In every second throbs the heartbeat of eternity.
—Herman Bavinck
In order for our hearts to find rest in God, naturally we must possess some knowledge of him, for the unknown is unloved.
—Herman Bavinck
Theology is the science which derives the knowledge of God from His revelation, which studies and thinks into it under the guidance of His Spirit, and then tries to describe it so that it ministers to His honor.
—Herman Bavinck
The world situation is such that nothing less than God can straighten it out;
Let us not fail the world & disappoint God by failing to pray
—AW Tozer
God remains eternal and inhabits eternity, but uses time with a view to manifesting his eternal thoughts and perfections. He makes time subservient to eternity and thus proves himself to be the King of the ages (1 Tim. 1:17).
—Herman Bavinck
We pray earnestly, O God, that we may not be found among those with hardened hearts, no longer able to hear Thy voice.
—AW Tozer
God is never portrayed or presented as being feminine.
—Herman Bavinck
A knowledge of God is available to man only when, and in so far as, God freely chooses to reveal Himself.
—Herman Bavinck
At the creation the morning stars sang, and all the children of God shouted with joy. At the birth of Christ a multitude of heavenly hosts raised a song of jubilation to God’s good pleasure.
—Herman Bavinck
Not law but gospel, not demand but promise is the center of revelation, even in the days of the old covenant, to which man’s part is to respond in faith and in the walk of faith (Gen. 17:1), just as Paul in Romans 4 and Galatians 3 understood the revelation of God to Abraham.
—Herman Bavinck
God pervades time and every moment of time with his eternity; he maintains a definite relation to time, entering into it with his eternity. Between eternity and time there is a distinction not only in quantity and degree but also in quality and essence.
—Herman Bavinck
From eternity to eternity he is who he is. There is in him no variation or shadow due to change (James 1:17). God is not a process of becoming but an eternal being. He is without beginning and end, but also knows no earlier and later.
—Herman Bavinck
Where God’s Word is, there is God Himself, there God’s Spirit is at work, there God establishes His covenant, there He plants His church.
—Herman Bavinck
Knowing God in Christ brings with it eternal life, imperturbable joy, and heavenly blessedness. These are not merely effects, but the knowing of God is itself immediately a new, eternal, and blessed life.
—Herman Bavinck
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
—Albert Einstein
I rejoiced that he was God, and longed that all should know it, and feel it, and rejoice in it.
—David Brainerd
Blessed be thy name for ever, that thou art God, and that thou wilt glorify thyself. O that the whole world might glorify thee! O let these poor people be brought to know thee, and love thee, for the glory of thy dear ever-blessed name!
—David Brainerd
Oh (methought) if God’s people knew me, as God knows, they would not think so highly of my zeal and resolution for God, as perhaps now they do!
—David Brainerd
God has made me willing to do any thing that I can do, consistent with truth, for the sake of peace, and that I might not be a stumbling-block to others.
—David Brainerd
O that I could begin this year with God, and spend the whole of it to his glory, either in life or death!
—David Brainerd
In the evening I was grieved that I had done so little for God. Oh that I could be a flame of fire in the service of my God!
—David Brainerd