They that have never prayed before, will pray in affliction.

Thomas Case

There never was found, in any age of the world, either religion or law that did so highly exalt the public good as the Bible.

Sir Francis Bacon

Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system . . . no contrition is required, still less any real desire to be delivered from sin. . . . Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Unbelievers seek their happiness in things of the world. Believers find their happiness in God. It is contrary to the nature of faith for a believer to seek peace in his earthly enjoyments.

Richard Baxter

Nobody today seems to think God is dangerous. And that is itself a dangerous oversight.

Michael Horton

To serve God is to make Him the object of worship, to seek God is to make Him the end of worship.

Thomas Manton

God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they be; not at the logic of your prayers, how methodical they be; but the sincerity of them he looks at.

Thomas Brooks

To weep for fear is childish; to weep for anger is womanish; to weep for grief is humane; to weep for compassion is divine; but to weep for sin is Christian.

Bishop Hall

I believe in the doctrine of election, because I am quite certain that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen Him; and I am sure He chose me before I was born, or else He never would have chosen me afterwards; and He must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why He should have looked upon me with special love. So I am forced to accept the doctrine.

Charles H. Spurgeon

Verily, that is not the blessed whispering of Christ's Spirit, but the hissing of the old serpent, that makes men bold with sin, that makes men dally with sin, that makes man a servant to sin, that breeds a contempt of ordinances, a neglect of holy duties, a carelessness in walking with God.

Thomas Brooks

Don't trust in light repentance. True repentance flees further stumblings.

John Sheffield

Verily, that assurance is but presumption that works men to play with sin, to be bold with sin, to make light of sin, to walk on in ways of sin. Such assurance will never bring a man to heaven, it will never keep him from dropping into hell, yea, it will double his damnation, and make him the most miserable among all damned, miserable, forlorn spirits. Ah, Lord! from such an assurance deliver my soul; and give me more and more of that divine assurance that makes sin to be more hateful than hell, and that makes the soul to be more careful to avoid the one, than it is fearful of falling into the other.

Thomas Brooks

A soul under assurance is unwilling to go to heaven without company.

Thomas Brooks

The humble soul endeavors more how to glorify God in afflictions, than how to get out of them.

Thomas Brooks

Satan exceedingly envies the celestial happiness of the saints, and if he cannot distract them from duty, be sure he will distract them in it.

Richard Steele (1629-1692)

It is a Christian's duty to attend to the Lord without distractions.

Richard Steele (1629-1692)

It is not the lifting up of the voice, nor the wringing of the hands, nor the beating of the breasts, but the stirrings of the heart, that God looks at in prayer.

Thomas Brooks

To make one's self believe that he can convert a piece of bread into God requires such a supreme effort of the will, and complete annihilation of intelligence, that the state of the soul, after the effort is over, is more like death than life.

Dr C. Chiniquy, former Roman Catholic priest

There is great cause to fear whether a heart is right with God, whose devotion is only spent among men.

Thomas Brooks

A Christian is the most free lord of all, subject to none; and the most dutiful servant of all, subject to all.

Martin Luther

It is not the labour of the lips, but the travail of the heart; it is not the pouring forth of a flood of words, but the pouring out of the soul, that makes a man a prince, a prevailer with God.

Thomas Brooks

The sweetest experiences of God's saints are when they are alone with Him.

Thomas Manton (1620-1677)

Man loves Christ by knowing, and knows Christ by loving.

Thomas Brooks

All the strictly historical evidence we have is in favor of it [Christ's bodily resurrection], and those scholars who reject it ought to recognize that they do so on some other ground than that of scientific history.

Former Oxford University church historian William Wand on the empty tomb.

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, Greek scholar