When a man is discouraged, you will always find that his trouble is all about his own condition....But when a man is grieved and truly humbled for sin, his trouble is about sin itself, as a dshonour done unto God.

William Bridge

Take heed and beware of discouragements, of being cast down; you have no reason for it, much reason against it. Thereby you rejoice the heart of Satan. he claps his hands and laughs to see you cast down.

William Bridge (1600-1670)

What men do not care to believe they will take pains to persuade themselves it is not true.

Samuel Stennett (1728-1795)

A praying man can never be very miserable, whatever his condition be, for he has the ear of God; the Spirit within to indite, a Friend in heaven to present, and God Himself to receive his desires as a Father.

William Bridge (1600-1670)

Sin will take you further than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay and cost you more than you want to pay.

Adrian Rogers (1931-2005)

Once we stood amazed at worship in the presence of the Lord. Now a generation bred on entertainment wants to be amused. What once was an experience now has become a performance and the church tries to put on a show.

Vance Havner (1901-1986)

Give a man an open Bible, an open mind, a conscience in good working order, and he will have a hard time to keep from being a Baptist.

A. T. Robertson (1863-1934) prolific Greek scholar and teacher

It is not the will of the Lord that anyone should have dominion over another man's conscience.

John Clarke: Early Baptist leader in the colony of Rhode Island (1609-1676)

Some may ask why are Baptists unique? Why are their teachings and history good for America and the cause of Christ in our nation? Does a new generation have an interest in these individuals through such a work before you? What value does it afford to study the past so that it will help in the present and future? ... I do not mean to presume that we are better than others. It's just that I think Baptists have truths that have been honed by the history of harassment, struggles, and even persecution. To consign this history to irrelevance is not only a mistake but a diminishment to shallowness.

Dr. Dan Nelson

Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man does not live differently from what he did before, both at home and abroad, his repentance needs to be repented of and his conversion is a fiction.

Charles H. Spurgeon

Atheists used to ridicule Christians for saying that God made something out of nothing, but now they say that nothing created something out of nothing.

Dr. Norman Geisler

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be slothfulness in prayer.

Charles H. Spurgeon

Scripture must be approached, intelligently studied, interpreted, and practically applied with a regenerate mind (Jn. 3:3; Rom. 1:18-22; 3:11; 1 Cor. 2:14; 2 Cor 4:3-4; Eph. 4:17-24; Col. 3:9-10) illuminated by the Spirit of God (1 John 2:20, 27) and predisposed to obedience (Matt. 4:4). Thus, the study of the text is not only an intellectual and academic procedure; it is preeminently a spiritual exercise - an act of worship.

W. R. Downing

Nothing prevents the salvation of the greatest sinner on earth except his own voluntary refusal to submit to the Lord Jesus Christ, which refusal will subject him to an aggravated condemnation.

New Hampshire Confession of Faith, 1833

Historically, Baptists have realized that any profession of faith should be tried and deemed as credible.

Mark Dever

When discipline leaves a church, Christ goes with it.

John Dagg (1794–1884)

He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.

David, king of Israel (2 Samuel 23.3)

"It shall greatly help you to understand the Scriptures if you mark not only what is spoken or written, but of whom and to whom, with what words, at what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstances, considering what goes before and what follows after."

Miles Coverdale

We must be cautious not to place our faith in faith because believing of itself has no power.

Kenneth Keathley

Justification is the act whereby God declares us to be righteous in Christ, while sanctification is the process by which God conforms us to the righteousness of Christ.

Kenneth Keathley

I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between Him and every other person in the world there is no possible comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.

Napoleon Bonaparte

O Lord God Almighty, the Father ... I bless Thee, I glorify Thee, along with the everlasting and heavenly Jesus Christ, Thy beloved Son, with whom, to Thee, and the Holy Ghost, be glory both now and to all coming ages. Amen

Polycarp, the bishop of Smyrna, explicitly worshipped the Trinity as he was martyred.

I've been doing a lot of thinking, and I think I would rather have Daddy die than you and Daddy get a divorce. I couldn't stand not seeing you and Daddy loving each other anymore. You and Daddy loved each other so much. Daddy leaving would be worse than Daddy dying.

Laura Husband, twelve-year old daughter of the shuttle Columbia commander Rick Husband, to her mother Evelyn after her father's death in the Columbia tragedy on February 1, 2003.

The greatness and wretchedness of man are so evident that the true religion must necessarily teach us both that there is in man some great source of greatness, and a great source of wretchedness.

Blaise Pascal

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

Malcolm Muggeridge