Category Archives: Quotes
Jonathan Edwards
When you counsel and warn others, do it earnestly, affectionately, and thoroughly. And when you are speaking to your equals, let your warnings be intermixed with expressions of your sense of your own unworthiness and of the sovereign grace that … Continue reading
John Newton
As a hearer, you have a right to try all doctrines by the word of God; and it is your duty so to do. Faithful ministers will remind you of this: they will not wish to hold you in an … Continue reading
Jonathan Edwards
Resolved, That I will do whatsoever I think to be most to the glory of God, and my own good, profit, and pleasure, in the whole of my duration; without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so … Continue reading
Charles H. Spurgeon
Always stand to it that your creed must bend to the Bible, and not the Bible to your creed, and dare to be a little inconsistent with yourselves, if need be, sooner than be inconsistent with God’s revealed truth. –Charles … Continue reading
Richard Sibbes
The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory. —Richard Sibbes
Richard Bernard
A godly man preferreth grace before goods, and wisdom before the world. —Richard Bernard
Arthur W. Pink
The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degading … Continue reading
Arthur W. Pink
Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to Him of our sense of the need. In this, as in everything, God’s thoughts are not … Continue reading
Charles Spurgeon
I wish, brothers and sisters, that we could all imitate “the pearl oyster”—A hurtful particle intrudes itself into its shell, and this vexes and grieves it. It cannot reject the evil, but what does it do but “cover” it with … Continue reading
Jonathan Edwards
“A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God’s power that he is upheld and provided for, … Continue reading
