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

Though only Christ's blood saves, yet the blood of martyrs may strengthen.

Thomas Watson

The heart of the Puritan movement was the reading of the Bible--not just on ecclesiastical occasions but constantly, lingeringly, and intensively, not primarily alone but in the company of others, and not only for absorption but for discussion. Though not above entertaining suspicion, the Puritans had contempt for ignorance; and an ignorant believer to them was no believer at all. Puritanism was a peculiarly social movement in an intellectual sense, for it made exposition and discussion an integral part of religious experience; and knowledge and understanding of the Bible were as important as acceptance of it.

Arthur Bernon Tourtellot

Life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul begins at conception. Life begins when the soul begins.

Tertullian

Whatever keeps me from the Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.

A. W. Tozer

Impress the young convert from the very beginning with the conviction that God has called him into His kingdom to struggle with the corruptions of his heart.

William B. Sprague

We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible.

A. W. Tozer

Faith never means gullibility.

A. W. Tozer

Most men, indeed, play at religion as they play at games, religion itself being of all games the one most universally played.

A. W. Tozer

The sin against the Holy Ghost [Matthew 12:31,32] seems evidently to include in it a willful, deliberate, and contemptuous rejection of Christ in opposition to the clearest convictions of our own minds; and there is every reason to believe that this sin has often been committed.

Charles Simeon (1759-1836)

The man that believes will obey.

A. W. Tozer

For centuries the Church stood solidly against every form of worldly entertainment, recognizing it for what it was - a device for wasting time, a refuge from the disturbing voice of conscience. But of late she appears to have decided that if she cannot conquer the great god Entertainment she may as well join forces with him and make what use she can of his power.

A. W. Tozer

Within the last quarter of a century we have actually seen a major shift in the beliefs and practices of the evangelical wing of the church so radical as to amount to a complete sellout; and all this behind the cloak of fervent orthodoxy. With Bibles under their arms and bundles of tracts in their pockets, religious persons now meet to carry on ‘services’ so carnal, so pagan, that they can hardly be distinguished from the old vaudeville shows of earlier days. For a preacher or writer to challenge this heresy is to invite ridicule and abuse from every quarter. Our only hope is that renewed spiritual pressure will be exerted increasingly by self-effacing and courageous men who desire nothing but the glory of God and the purity of the church.

A. W. Tozer

Salvation comes not by "accepting the finished work" or "deciding for Christ." It comes by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, the whole, living, victorious Lord Who as God and man, fought our fight and won it, accepted out debt as His own and paid it, took our sins and died under them and rose again to set us free. This is the true Christ, and nothing less will do.

A. W. Tozer

The God of the modern evangelical isn't a God I have much respect for.

A. W. Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from our limitations to a God who has none.

A. W. Tozer

True Puritanism, I argue . . . is found also in Separation. It is found in the New England churches. It is found in Non-conformity, in Independency and the Baptists.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Faith is a life that dares to commit beyond it's means, expecting what sense cannot certify, based on God's promise, dependent on God's supply, motivated for God's glory, and confident in God's integrity.

Ken Connolly

We believe that the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not commence our existence at the reformation, we were reformers before Luther and Calvin were born; we never came from the Church of Rome, for we were never in it, but we have an unbroken line up to the apostles themselves. We have always existed from the days of Christ, and our principles, sometimes veiled and forgotten, like a river which may travel under ground for a little season, have always had honest and holy adherents.

Charles Spurgeon

You cannot be assured quietly and unmoved by the fact that your sins are forgiven, and that you are a child of God, and that you are going to heaven: it is impossible. Assurance must lead to joy.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. Brethren, what is true of ministers is true of all our people. You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritan writers, and expositions of the Bible.

Charles Spurgeon