God is so very good that when His blessings are considered His children can rejoice and praise Him on their way to martyrdom.

John S. Waldrip

The call of God is not a call to God, but to His Son, Jesus Christ.

John S. Waldrip

God's Word is designed to have a twofold effect upon the Christian: a distressing and a comforting.

Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952)

Many have been the mischiefs that have arisen from that false and delusory notion of the witness of the Spirit,that is a kind of inward voice, suggestion, or revelation from God to man,that he is beloved of Him, and that his sins are pardoned - sometimes accompanied with, sometimes without a text of Scripture; and many have been the false and vain (though very high) affections that have arisen from hence. It is to be feared that multitudes of souls have been eternally undone by it.

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

The strenuous character of service in the gospel is indicated by Paul's fondness for describing it in athletic or military language.

F. F. Bruce (1910-1990)

By this word grace, we are to understand God's free, sovereign, good pleasure, by whereby He acts in Christ towards His people.

John Bunyan

I am quite conscious that my speculations run quite beyond the bounds of true science.

Charles Darwin, 1857

There is clearly a difference between what God desires and what God wills and brings to pass.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

He that never meditates of his sins, is never like to be broken-hearted for his sins.

Thomas Hooker (1586-1647)

Pressure put upon people to come forward in decision ultimately is due to a lack of faith in the work and operation of the Holy Spirit.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

That ministry which does not ordinarily humble the soul, and break the heart for sin, does not convert and draw home to Christ.

Thomas Hooker [1586-1647]

If you did consider your own weakness, you would not say that repentance is in your own power.

Thomas Hooker [1586-1647]

Who was ever converted reading what the sinner liked to read, but sinners were known to be converted forcing themselves to read the Word they hated.

John Gerstner

A pastor is a man who is given charge of souls. He is not merely a nice, pleasant man who visits people and has an afternoon cup of tea with them, or passes the time of day with them. He is the guardian, the custodian, the protector, the organizer, the director, the ruler of the flock.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Nothing is more wonderful than to know that God loves you; and no man can truly know that God loves him except in Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Modern Christians seem to be more frightened of emotion than anything else. This is due to their failure to draw the distinction between emotion and emotionalism.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

Jonathan Edwards

The greatest characteristic of the greatest saints in all ages has always been their realisation of the love of God to them.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The Christian does not go round boasting about it; it is the 'hidden manna', it is the 'white stone'.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The men who have accomplished the most in this world have always been theologically minded.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

May I be permitted a moment of grotesque understatement? Jesus came to found a church. Could any statement be simpler or more neglected than this? Jesus came to found a church. Jesus did not come merely for the solitary individual. Rather, He came and died so that solitary individuals might, through his shed blood and atonement, be brought into this new existence that is the church.

Wyman Lewis Richardson

Paul says, 'the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts.' I am convinced that there is no aspect of the Christian truth that has been so sadly neglected in this century.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The idea that a local church should be comprised only of people who bear the marks of regeneration still remains in our confessional statements, but it has been so far removed from influencing our practice that many contemporary Baptists - including pastors - consider it outdated or merely a quaint relic from a simpler past.

Tom Ascol

We know things about God, but our real trouble is our ignorance of God Himself. - what He really is, and what He is to His people.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The purpose of God is certain; nothing can stop it - nothing whatsoever! That is the great message of this Epistle to the Romans, as indeed of the whole Bible. God has set this plan of salvation in process, and neither devils nor hell nor the whole universe can stop it.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones