What has the world done for you, that you love it so much? Did the world die for you? Will the world blot out your sins or change your heart? Will the world carry you to heaven? No, no! You may go back to the world if you please, but it can only destroy your pour soul.

Robert Murray McCheyne

Sin puts a child of God upon self-conflicting. Spiritual-self conflicts with carnal-self. ‘The spirit lusts against the flesh’ (Gal. 5.17). Our life is a wayfaring life, and a warfaring life. There is a duel fought every day between the two seeds. A believer will not let sin have peaceable possession. If he cannot keep sin out, he will keep sin under; though he cannot quite overcome, yet he is overcoming. ‘To him that is overcoming’ (Rev. 2.7).

Thomas Watson

God would never permit evil, if He could not bring good out of evil.

Augustine

It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus.

Robert Murray McCheyne

No person can be a child of God without living in secret prayer; and no community of Christians can be in a lively condition without unity in prayer.

Robert Murray McCheyne

Never cease to show your people that to be holy is to be happy; and that to bring us to perfect holiness and likeness to God, was the very end for which Christ died.

Robert Murray McCheyne

Afflictions to the godly are medicinal.

Thomas Watson

The only way to be kept from falling is to grow. If you stand still, you will fall.

Robert Murray McCheyne

Faith and fear go hand in hand. Faith keeps the heart cheerful, fear keeps the heart serious. Faith keeps the heart from sinking in despair, fear keeps it from floating in presumption.

Thomas Watson

The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.

Thomas Watson

Expound much; it is through the truth that souls are to be sanctified, not through essays upon the truth. Be easy of access, apt to teach, and the Lord teach you and bless you in all you do and say. You will not find many companions.

Robert Murray McCheyne

Christian humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

C. S. Lewis

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

Tim Keller

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

C. S. Lewis

Ministers are but the pole; it is to the brazen serpent you are to look.

Robert Murray McCheyne

Christianity is like no other faith on earth, and those who try to assimilate it to the rest of the religions, speaking of them as if they reflect or foreshadow it or of it as reflecting or foreshadowing them, are flying in the face of the facts.

James I. Packer

Christianity does not profess to convince the perverse and headstrong, to bring irresistible evidence to the daring and profane, to vanquish the proud scorner, and afford evidences from which the careless and perverse cannot possibly escape. This might go to destroy man's responsibility. All that Christianity professes, is to propose such evidences as may satisfy the meek, the tractable, the candid, the serious inquirer.

Thomas Wilson

God has taught us by afflictions, what we would not learn by mercies.

Ann H. Judson, first wife of Adoniram Judson, Baptist missionary to Burma

… search for truth, hear truth, learn truth, love truth, speak the truth, hold the truth, defend the truth till death.

Jan Hus

We are all missionaries. Wherever we go, we either bring people nearer to Christ, or we repel them from Christ.

Eric Liddell, missionary to China

God has in this past year introduced me to the preparation of the ministry, - I bless Him for that. He has helped me to give up much of my shame to name His name, and to be on His side, especially before particular friends, - I bless Him for that. He has taken conclusively away friends that might have been a snare, - must hae been a stumbling-block, - I bless Him for that. He has introduced me to one Christian friend, and sealed more and more my amity with another, - I bless Him for that.

Robert Murray McCheyne

Silence in religion is a loud sin!

Thomas Watson

A man may think himself into Hell. What were the apostate angels damned for, was it for any more than proud thoughts?

Thomas Watson, Puritan

The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.

Vera Kistiakowski, professor of physics emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former president of the Association of Women in Science

The more outrageous others are in sin, the more courageous we should be for truth.

Thomas Watson