I do not see how our sense of oneness to Christ could ever have been perfected if we had not been permitted to work for Him.

Charles H. Spurgeon

Baptism is the mark of distinction between the Church and the world. It very beautifully sets forth the death of the baptized person to the world. Professedly, he is no longer of the world; he is buried to it he rises again to a new life. No symbol could be more significant. In the immersion of a believer, there seems to me to be a wondrous setting forth of the burial of the Christian to all the world in the burial of Christ Jesus. It is the crossing of the Rubicon. If Caesar crosses the Rubicon, there will never be peace between him and the Senate again. He draws his sword, and he throws away his scabbard. Such is the act of baptism to the believer. It is the hurtling of the boats: it is as much as to say, 'I cannot come back again to you, I am dead to you; and to prove that I am, I am absolutely buried to you, I have nothing more to do with the world; I am Christ's, and Christ's forever.'

C. H. Spurgeon

If you have no disciples you are not a leader.

Samuel Rai

Scripture cannot be understood theologically, unless it is first understood grammatically.

Melancthon

There is nothing like faith in the sinners' Friend: it overcomes all evil.

Charles H. Spurgeon

Do not pray so that God will be useful to you, but so that you will be useful to God.

John S. Waldrip

Culture is religion made visible.

J. H. Bavinck

Consciousness of self-importance is a hateful delusion, but one into which we fall as naturally as weeds grow on a dunghill.

Charles H. Spurgeon

The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.

G. K. Chesterton

I have this cancer that will take my life. I don't get mad at God - I get mad at sin.

Francis Schaeffer

If I profess, with the loudest voice and the clearest exposition, every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christianity. Where the battle rages the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battle-field besides is mere flight and disgrace to him if he flinches at that one point.

Elizabeth Rundle Charles (often erroneously attributed to Martin Luther)

You have a factor that is absolutely infinite, and what does it matter as to what other factors may be. 'I will do as much as I can,' says one. Any fool can do that. He that believes in Christ does what he can not do, attempts the impossible and performs it.

Charles H. Spurgeon

Faith has the genius of transforming the barely possible into actuality.

Samuel Zwemer (1867–1952)

C.S. Lewis on Reasoning to Atheism - Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a by-product, the sensation I call thought. But, if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? It's like upsetting a milk jug and hoping that the way it splashes itself will give you a map of London. But if I can't trust my own thinking, of course I can't trust the arguments leading to Atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an Atheist, or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.

C.S. Lewis The Case for Christianity. p. 32

Christians are different from unbelievers in other ways than destiny. By no means sinless, Christians are observed to actually gather with other believers to worship God on Sundays, Hebrews 10.25.

John S. Waldrip

Christianity is essentially a social religion, to turn it into a solitary religion is indeed to destroy it.

John Wesley

There are many passages of Scripture that you will never understand until some trying experience shall interpret them to you!

Charles H. Spurgeon

Your condition is not only your calamity, but your fault.

Charles H. Spurgeon

There is no conversion without conviction.

Thomas Hooker (1586-1647)

Lukewarmness goes masked under the name of discretion; licentious wantonness in the abuse of the privileges of the gospel, goes veiled with the profession of the liberty of the gospel; and while they profess, they must not be servants to men, they serve their own distempered affections.

Thomas Hooker (1586-1647)

The preacher must not trim his doctrine to flatter the audience. His goal must not be to attract a crowd by pleasing them in their sin. He must preacher what is most needful for their eternal well-being.

Tom Nettles

You cannot taste the sweetness of any doctrine till you have remembered Christ's connection with it.

Charles H. Spurgeon

If I profess, with the loudest voice and clearest exposition, every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be confessing Christianity. Where the battle rages the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battle-field besides is mere flight and disgrace to him if he flinches at that one point.

Martin Luther

The sayings of Jesus recorded in the gospels demonstrate that Jesus was clearly a young-earth creationist.

Terry Mortenson

I became a Baptist through reading the New Testament - especially in the Greek.

C. H. Spurgeon