PREACHING
"To me the work of preaching is the highest and greatest and the most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called."
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
"Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is the better."
Charles Spurgeon (1888)
CHURCH
"A healthy church is a congregation that increasingly reflects God's character as his character has been revealed in his Word."
Mark Dever
"A healthy church is one that is motivated by a common affection for God and His Word, and one that really knows what it is to love one another."
John Macarthur
PRAYER
"Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed."
Mark 1:35
SALVATION
"That evangelism which draws friendly parallels between the ways of God and the ways of men is false to the Bible and cruel to the souls of its hearers. The faith of Christ does not parallel the world, it intersects it. In coming to Christ we do not bring our old life up onto a higher plane; we leave it at the cross."
A.W. Tozer
HOLINESS
"There was a day when I died, utterly died, died to George Muller and his opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame of even my brethren and friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God."
George Muller
"You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being struck by an obvious fact-the whole matter of personal holiness is highly important to God."
A.W. Tozer
"To him the ways of piety are paths of peace and pleasantness. His footsteps are ordered by the Word of God, and not by the cunning and wicked devices of carnal men. It is a rich sign of inward grace when the outward walk is changed, and when ungodliness is put far from our actions."
Charles Spurgeon's comments on the "blessed" man of Psalm 1
MUSIC
"This singing should be done 'with thankfulness in your hearts.' Such expressions of praise must not be from the lips only, but should be the overflow of hearts that have recognized God's truth and desire to praise Him for it."
Homer Kent (Comments on Colossians 3:16)
THEOLOGY
"Theology is for everyone. Indeed, everyone needs to be a theologian. In reality, everyone is a theologian-of one sort or another. And therein lies the problem. There is nothing wrong with being an amateur theologian or a professional theologian, but there is everything wrong about being an ignorant or a sloppy theologian. Therefore, every Christian should read theology."
Charles Ryrie
THE BIBLE
"This book will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from this book."
D.L. Moody
"To meditate in God's Word is to discourse with ourselves concerning the great things contained in it, with close application of mind, a fixedness of thought, till we be suitably affected with those things and experience the savour and power of them in our hearts."
Matthew Henry
"To me the work of preaching is the highest and greatest and the most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called."
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
"Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is the better."
Charles Spurgeon (1888)
CHURCH
"A healthy church is a congregation that increasingly reflects God's character as his character has been revealed in his Word."
Mark Dever
"A healthy church is one that is motivated by a common affection for God and His Word, and one that really knows what it is to love one another."
John Macarthur
PRAYER
"Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed."
Mark 1:35
SALVATION
"That evangelism which draws friendly parallels between the ways of God and the ways of men is false to the Bible and cruel to the souls of its hearers. The faith of Christ does not parallel the world, it intersects it. In coming to Christ we do not bring our old life up onto a higher plane; we leave it at the cross."
A.W. Tozer
HOLINESS
"There was a day when I died, utterly died, died to George Muller and his opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame of even my brethren and friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God."
George Muller
"You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being struck by an obvious fact-the whole matter of personal holiness is highly important to God."
A.W. Tozer
"To him the ways of piety are paths of peace and pleasantness. His footsteps are ordered by the Word of God, and not by the cunning and wicked devices of carnal men. It is a rich sign of inward grace when the outward walk is changed, and when ungodliness is put far from our actions."
Charles Spurgeon's comments on the "blessed" man of Psalm 1
MUSIC
"This singing should be done 'with thankfulness in your hearts.' Such expressions of praise must not be from the lips only, but should be the overflow of hearts that have recognized God's truth and desire to praise Him for it."
Homer Kent (Comments on Colossians 3:16)
THEOLOGY
"Theology is for everyone. Indeed, everyone needs to be a theologian. In reality, everyone is a theologian-of one sort or another. And therein lies the problem. There is nothing wrong with being an amateur theologian or a professional theologian, but there is everything wrong about being an ignorant or a sloppy theologian. Therefore, every Christian should read theology."
Charles Ryrie
THE BIBLE
"This book will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from this book."
D.L. Moody
"To meditate in God's Word is to discourse with ourselves concerning the great things contained in it, with close application of mind, a fixedness of thought, till we be suitably affected with those things and experience the savour and power of them in our hearts."
Matthew Henry