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
It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and a cruelty, too.
—Sigmund Freud
Sin so hardens and dulls the soul that it appears unsupportive of the plainest reason and clearest light and unmoved by things of the greatest and most immediate concern.
—Jonathan Edwards
God’s people, whenever they are scorched by afflictions as by hot sunbeams, may resort to him, who is as a shadow of a great rock, and be effectually sheltered, and sweetly refreshed.
—Jonathan Edwards
A believer that hath gotten Christ in his arms, is like one that hath found great spoils, or a pearl of great price.
—John Owen
If Christ is pleased to send forth his Spirit to manifest his love, and speaks friendly to the soul, it will support it even in the the greatest outward torment that man can inflict.
—Jonathan Edwards
Let not our dear LORD’s lambs perish for lack of knowledge. ‘Give ye, give ye them to eat,’ methinks, is the endearing, constraining command of the great shepherd and bishop of souls.
—George Whitefield
A great work of GOD is doing here. The LORD JESUS gets himself the victory every day; free grace compels poor sinners to come in.
—George Whitefield
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
—John Locke
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
—John Locke
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
—John Locke
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!
—John Locke
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!
—John Locke
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
—John Locke
Self likes to do great things; but grace teaches us to do little things with a great spirit – that is, for the Lord’s sake.
—John Newton
Sin is the greatest evil. Paul’s greatest sorrow was for sin (Rom. 7:24). Paul never cried ‘O wretched man that I am’ because he had suffered so much affiction, but only for his sin!
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Since I came to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, the great mystery of godliness in His Son, and the dealings of the Father with the Son, the Lord knows now that I abhor sin in secret more than I abhor hell itself.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
There is so much sweetness in our peace with God that it must so quiet the spirit of that man in whom it is that whatsoever is without shall never be able to make any great disturbance in his spirit, so great and excellent is the sweetness of that peace.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Since I came to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, the great mystery of godliness in His Son, and the dealings of the Father with the Son, the Lord knows now that I abhor sin in secret more than I abhor hell itself.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
There is so much sweetness in our peace with God that it must so quiet the spirit of that man in whom it is that whatsoever is without shall never be able to make any great disturbance in his spirit, so great and excellent is the sweetness of that peace.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
This is the great difference between a wicked man and a godly man: one minds earthly things, and the other has his conversation in heaven.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Articles or rules for doctrine or practice in matters of religion to be imposed upon men, should be as few as may be; there is very great danger in the unnecessary multiplying them. This in all ages has caused division and exceeding disturbances in the churches of Christ.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Articles or rules for doctrine or practice in matters of religion to be imposed upon men, should be as few as may be; there is very great danger in the unnecessary multiplying them. This in all ages has caused division and exceeding disturbances in the churches of Christ.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Ain’t it great that we don’t get all the Government we pay for?
—Peter R. Rose
Stay away from those small people who want to deprive you of your ambitions. Instead, befriend great people.
—Taras Shevchenko
I live, I study. I don’t bow to anyone and I don’t fear anyone but God. It is a great happiness to be a free person.
—Taras Shevchenko