At that point the enemies saw clear. You may accept the lofty claims of Jesus. You may take Him as very God. Or else you must reject Him as a miserable, deluded enthusiast. There is really no middle ground. Jesus refuses to be pressed into the mould of a mere religious teacher.
—J. Gresham Machen
“God is near, and therefore hope is near.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Everywhere Jesus thinks of himself as being Son of God in some entirely unique sense.
—J. Gresham Machen
*Boldness* with God by Christ is another privilege of our adoption.
—John Owen
Breathe, Wind of God. Forgiving Love, renew us;
Form us and discipline to Thy desire.
O Man of War, great Son of Man, endue us;
O mighty Spirit, kindle with Thy fire!
—Amy Carmichael
God is both the purchaser and the price; for Christ, who is God, purchased these blessings for us, by offering up himself as the price of our salvation.
—Jonathan Edwards
Dark and gloomy would be the world, if we were left to our own devices and had no blessed Word of God.
—J. Gresham Machen
May God help His own people to shine brightly, to flash out of darkness, that men may take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus!
—D. L. Moody
In Christ. All strength to walk with God is from him.
—John Owen
“The only way to keep chaff out of the child’s little measure is to fill it brimful with good wheat. Oh that the Spirit of God may help us to do this!”
– Charles Spurgeon
“God will never bring to mind again the sin of that man who he has pardoned.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“If there be any doctrine too difficult for a child, it is rather the fault of the teacher’s conception of it than of the child’s power to receive it, provided that child be really converted to God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“If there be any doctrine too difficult for a child, it is rather the fault of the teacher’s conception of it than of the child’s power to receive it, provided that child be really converted to God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The sons of God have a right and title to all, in that they are made heirs with Christ.
—John Owen
If the world has nothing to say against you, it is a pretty sure sign that God has not much to say for you, for if you do seek to live unto Christ Jesus, you must go against the current of the world.
—D. L. Moody
It is a blessed thing to live upon God. Did ever any trust in him and was forsaken?
—George Whitefield
Every person must remember that political borders and the multitude of governmental authorities are human creations, and that before God we are all inhabitants of one and the same Earth and all subject to God’s law, not some human authority.
—Leo Tolstoy
God has condescended to touch our hearts…by the wonderful variety and beauty of his Book.
—J. Gresham Machen
“Because God is infinitely happy, he delights in the happiness of his creatures.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Our one instrument as fishers for Christ is the gospel of the grace of God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“We ought to work as if all depended upon us,
and then we are to trust God knowing that all depends on him.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Let your petitions be presented as if you believed in God and had no doubt as to the efficacy of prayer.
— Charles Spurgeon
God suffers his dear children to fall into little miscarriages, that the eye may not say to the hand, ‘I have not need of thee;’ or again, the head to the foot, ‘I have no need of thee.’
—George Whitefield
Yes, thank God, he has conquered Death and the grave; and you can shout now, “O grave, where is thy victory!” He went down into the grave and conquered it, and came up out of it; and now he says, “Because I live, ye shall live also.”
—D. L. Moody
There is no more lively image of heaven than an assembly of Christians praising God.
—Jonathan Edwards
“O to love God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our mind, and with all our strength: that is what the law required, it is what the gospel enables us to render.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Every ceremony is fulfilled in Christ. Sunday is the day of resurrection.
Under the Old Testament the pattern was first work, then rest– that is, the worship of God.
—Herman Bavinck
Without the resurrection, the death of Christ was only the heroic death of a noble martyr, with the resurrection, it is the atoning death of the Son of God.
—R. A. Torrey
All human tragedies are a result of human blindness, of man’s inability to see the God who lives within him and sees Him in all people.
—Leo Tolstoy
‘God is love’. This is the sacred principle which warms and enlightens the heavenly world, that blessed seat of God’s visible presence.
—William Wilberforce