“Safe?” Said Mr. Beaver, “Who said anything about safe? Of course he is not safe. He is a lion. But he is good. He is the King, I tell you.’- CS Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia
“He who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.’ I commonly observe that almost all men, whether good or bad, do loathe the proud, and love the humble.”
—Richard Baxter
"Whate'er my God ordains is right: Here shall my stand be taken. Though sorrow, need, or death be mine, Yet I am not forsaken. My Father's care is 'round me there; He holds me that I shall not fall. And so to Him, I leave it allAnd so to Him, I leave it all." —Samuel Rodigast, 1675
"God's gracious love, notwithstanding its sovereignty, is neither whimsical nor arbitrary. God's grace is experienced only in terms of Christ. God loves His Son, and He loves those who by covenant belong to His Son. . . . . United to Christ, the Father loves us as He loves His Son and accepts us completely and unreservedly." —Michael P. V. Barrett
“You are going to hear a rumor one day that Voddie Baucham is no more. Don't you believe it. Don’t you believe it. Don’t you believe it. Because though I die, I will rise with Christ. It will not be the end of me, because Christ is raised and I too will be raised with Christ. Don’t you pity me. . . . You pity the one who has no absolutely hope because they have no resurrected Christ.”
—Voddie Baucham
"Pastors, I beg you to consider what I have written here. I believe the Church—your church—is under attack. As shepherds, we must defend the sheep. We must repel the wolves. And yes, the wolves are many." —Voddie Baucham
“Like Balaam, false teachers use religion as a cloak for covetous practices. They know the right words to say, but their hearts are set on personal gain.” —Warren Wiersbe
“False teachers [are] not made outside Christianity. They are always bred in the church, half in and half out; but eventually they reject the truth and try to seduce others in their attempt to fulfill their self-gratification.” —John MacArthur
"Tignan mo, sa dulo ng lahat, yung ebidensya na nasa harap natin— yung confident na pagpupumilit ng unang mga Kristyano na talagang bakante ang libingan at tunay na nakita nila si Jesus, at dahil sa experience na iyon sila'y naniniwala, nabago ang mga pananaw nila sa buhay, at determinadong pinanghawakan nila ang mga paniniwala nila kahit sa harap ng kamatayan— ang ebidensyang ito ay maipapaliwang lamang ng nag-iisang posibilidad:
Si Jesus ay talagang, tunay, pisikal, at historically na muling nabuhay mula sa kamatayan."
“Peter observed that those who are not practicing these virtues have forgotten their baptism and their forgiveness of sins. In other words, they are not living as forgiven sinners. They are behaving like unconverted people. … If members of the church are living immoral lives, they bear witness that forgiveness of sins means little to them” —Tom Schreiner
“Simon, Simon, behold Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers” —Luke 22:31-32
“We have now reached the last summit of the mountain chain of Psalms. It rises high into the clear azure, and its brow is bathed in the sunlight of the eternal world of worship. . . . The poet-prophet is full of inspiration and enthusiasm. He stays not to argue, to teach, to explain: but cries with burning words, “Praise him, Praise him, Praise ye the Lord.”
—Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“This is the God who makes his people sing in thanksgiving, contrition, petition, lament, and reflection. Taken together, these psalms indicate the kind of relationship that God wants his people to have with him. It is deeply authentic, not the kind of religion characterized by mumbo jumbo, merely formal religious duties, self-importance, and religious arrogance, all of it carefully masking a stinking hypocrisy. The intensity of the psalms conspires to underscore that God cannot be deceived by religious rituals. He wants his image-bearers to enjoy a real relationship with him, the true and living God.” —D. A. Carson
“When Christians unite around something other than the gospel, they create community that would likely exist even if God didn’t. As a modern-day tower of Babel, that community glorifies their strength instead of God’s.” —Jamie Dunlop
“Whatsoever number of millions of millions of years we can imagine before the creation of the world, yet God was infinitely before those; he is therefore called the ‘Ancient of Days’ (Dan 7:9), as being before all days and time and eminently containing in himself all times and ages. . . . All created things are new and fresh, but no creature can find out any beginning of God: it is impossible there should be any beginning of him.”—Stephen Charnock
"Hast Thou not bid me seek Thy faceAnd shall I seek in vain?And can the ear of sovereign graceBe deaf when I complain?No still the ear of sovereign graceAttends the mourner's prayerOh may I ever find accessTo breathe my sorrows there."—Anne Steele (1717-1778)
“God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him. God’s design to pursue his own glory turns out to be love. And our duty to pursue God’s glory turns out to be a quest for joy.” —John Piper
"‘How rich a treasure we possess in Jesus Christ, our Lord.
His blood, our ransom and defense; His glory, our reward.
The sum of all created things are worthless in compare,
For our inheritance is Him whose praise angels declare."
—Matt Boswell and Matt Papa
"I want you to indulge yourselves in this most rare… delight of sorrow at the feet of Jesus,-not sorrow for unpardoned sin, but sorrow for pardoned sin, sorrow for that which is done with, sorrow for that which is forgiven, sorrow for that which will never condemn you, for it was laid on Christ long ago, and is put away for ever. It is this sweet sorrow that I want you to indulge. Up with the sluices, then, brethren and sisters, and let these sacred streams of sorrow flow forth."
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"If every evil be let loose from Pandora's box, yet is there hope at the bottom. This is the grace that swims, though the waves roar and be troubled. God is unchangeable, and therefore his grace is the ground for unshaken hope. If everything be dark, yet the day will come, and meanwhile hope carries stars in her eyes; her lamps are not dependent on oil from without, her light is fed by secret visitations of God."
—Charles Haddon Spurgeon