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

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