Praise ye the Lord, for it is good to sing praises unto our God. It is profitable and advantageous. It is health to the mind. The soul is greatly bettered and advantaged by it. It is an exercise that naturally tends to the spiritual life, to strengthen, confirm and increase it.
—Jonathan Edwards
“You are beloved of the Lord, and a friend of the Son of God!”
– Charles Spurgeon
The very center and core of the whole Bible is the doctrine of the grace of God…
—J. Gresham Machen
Fear not man. The LORD OF HOSTS shall be with you; the strength of that GOD who hath called you shall be your refuge.
—George Whitefield
You must follow your guide, which is the Word of God, which directs you still to pray and to seek and follow on.
—Jonathan Edwards
“God, If I cannot see the brightness of your face, the shadow of your wings will be enough for me.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“But when our Lord Jesus Christ sees us doing much for God, he is pleased with us, as the gardener is when, having planted a tree, and digged about it, and manured it, and pruned it, he sees it at last covered with golden fruit.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Faith in God is a necessity of reason.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“If you continue, day by day, to walk with God carefully and prayerfully, and to abide in Christ continually, he will look upon you with eyes of satisfaction and delight[…]”
– Charles Spurgeon
What people need is the gospel, not directions for saving themselves but knowledge of how God has saved them.
—J. Gresham Machen
“We believe in a God of purposes and plans.
He has not left a blind fate to terrorize the world.”
— Charles Spurgeon
It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. – C.S. Lewis
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done. – C.S. Lewis
“The Lord is a real God, infinitely more real than things, more real even than ourselves.”
— Charles Spurgeon
The glory of the atonement is not that there’s a change in us, rather it’s that there’s a change in the way God deals with us.
—J. Gresham Machen
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won’t last forever. We must take it or leave it. – C.S. Lewis
We by our sin have exposed ourselves to wrath, to a vindictive justice; but God has done very great things that we might be saved from that wrath
—Jonathan Edwards
The knowledge of him as a God in Christ pardoning sin and saving sinners is attainable by the gospel only.
—John Owen
Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. – C.S. Lewis
Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!
—Nikolai Gogol
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
—Voltaire
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. Do not ever let anyone claim to be a true American patriot if they ever attempt to separate religion from politics.
—George Washington
As the LORD has been pleased to reveal his dear Son in us, Oh let us stir up that gift of GOD, and with all boldness preach him to others.
—George Whitefield
Our Lord came not to teach men that they were already sons of God, but to make them sons of God by his redeeming work.
—J. Gresham Machen
If God forgives us we must forgive ourselves otherwise its like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than him. – C.S. Lewis
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
God is not obliged. He has made no promise but yet ’tis his pleasure often to answer the prayers of those who are full of hypocrisy and all manner of abomination.
—Jonathan Edwards
As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind… Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?
—Nikolai Gogol
The doctrines of our election, and free justification in CHRIST JESUS, are daily more and more pressed upon my heart. They fill my soul with a holy fire, and afford me great confidence in GOD my Saviour.
—George Whitefield
The doctrines of our election, and free justification in CHRIST JESUS, are daily more and more pressed upon my heart. They fill my soul with a holy fire, and afford me great confidence in GOD my Saviour.
—George Whitefield