To us the plenary verbal inspiration of Holy Scripture is a fact, and not hypothesis.

Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)

It should not be frightening to a man that he is bothered by God, since men are always disturbed when their lives are touched by the omnipotent God. What should frighten a thinking man is to realize that God has left him alone. To be left alone by God is to be doomed without remedy.

John S. Waldrip

Many shrink from investigation when they find that things which they fondly believed, incorporated in their prayers and hopes, and portrayed with eloquence, are subject of being built upon a sandy foundation.

George H. H. Peters

It has sometimes been the boast of Episcopalians that Churchmen go to their churches to pray and worship God, but that Dissenters merely assemble to hear sermons. Our reply to this is, that albeit there may be some professors who are guilty of this evil, it is not true of the people of God among us, and these are the only persons who ever will in any church really enjoy devotion. Our congregations gather together to worship God, and we assert, and feel no hesitation in so asserting, that there is as much true and acceptable prayer offered in our ordinary Nonconformist services as in the best and most pompous performances of the Church of England. Moreover, if the observation be meant to imply that the hearing of sermons is not worshipping God, it is founded on a gross mistake, for rightly to listen to the gospel is one of the noblest parts of the adoration of the Most High. It is a mental exercise, when rightly performed, in which all the faculties of the spiritual man are called into devotional action. Reverently hearing the word exercises our humility, instructs our faith, irradiates us with joy, inflames us with love, inspires us with zeal, and lifts us up towards heaven. Many a time a sermon has been a kind of Jacob's ladder upon which we have seen the angels of God ascending and descending, and the covenant God himself at the top thereof. We have often felt when God has spoken through his servants into our souls, 'This is none other than the house of God, and the very gate of heaven.' We have magnified the name of the Lord and praised him with all our heart while he has spoken to us by his Spirit which he has given unto men. Hence there is not the wide distinction to be drawn between preaching and prayer that some would have us admit; for the one part of the service softly blends into the other, and the sermon frequently inspires the prayer and the hymn. True preaching is an acceptable adoration of God by the manifestation of his gracious attributes: the testimony of the gospel, which pre-eminently glorifies him, and the obedient hearing of revealed truth, are an acceptable form of worship to the Most High, and perhaps one of the most spiritual in which the human mind can engage."

Charles H. Spurgeon

Friendship evangelism is a great idea, except when it’s all friendship and no evangelism.

Ronnie Floyd

Eternity cannot be affected but by prayer.

John S. Waldrip

Uneasy is the heart until it rests in Thee.

Augustine

The doctrines of original sin, election, and effectual calling, final perseverance, and all those great truths which are called Calvinism – though Calvin was not the author of them, but simply an able writer and preacher upon the subject – are, I believe, the essential doctrines of the gospel that is in Jesus Christ. Now, I do not ask you whether you believe all this – it is possible you may not; but I believe you will before you enter heaven.

Charles H. Spurgeon

I think my main word to American preachers is, as Stephen Olford has often said, that we belong in a study, not in an office. The symbol of our ministry is a Bible — not a telephone. We are ministers of the Word, not administrators, and we need to relearn the question of priority in every generation. The Apostles were in danger of being diverted from the ministry to which they had been called by Jesus — the ministry of Word and prayer. They were almost diverted into a social ministry for squabbling widows. Now both are important, and both are ministries, but the Apostles had been called to the ministry of the Word and not the ministry of tables. They had to delegate the ministry of the tables to other servants. We are not Apostles, but there is the work of teaching that has come to us in the unfolding of the apostolic message of the New Testament. This is our priority as pastors and preachers. Jesus preached to the crowds, to the group, and to the individual. He had the masses, the disciples, and individuals coming to Him. He preached to crowds, taught the disciples, and counseled individuals. We must also have this focus. It is all in the ministry of the Word.

John R. W. Stott

There is a consequence of the Law, and that is this: you have sinned and, therefore, you must be damned. But the consequence of the gospel is this: you have sinned, therefore go to Jesus Christ.

Jeremiah Burroughs

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.

Dr Kenneth Connolly

If your Christianity will not get you to church, it should not be relied on to get you to heaven.

John S. Waldrip

Courage…is the indispensable requisite of any true ministry…. Courage is good everywhere, but it is necessary here. If you are afraid of men and a slave to their opinion, go and do something else. Go and make shoes to fit them…. But do not keep on all your life preaching sermons which shall say not what God sent you to declare, but what they hire you to say.

Philips Brooks

To think Planned Parenthood primarily exists for other reasons and services [than murdering the unborn] is akin to believing that brothels exist to give men ample opportunities to engage in conversation.

Tony Lee

We don't know a millionth of 1 percent about anything.

Thomas Edison

The Word of God is a heart affecting book, and when we begin to sing its praises it soon comes home to us, and sets us praying to be ourselves conformed to its teachings.

Charles H. Spurgeon

There are four things which, unless we are well instructed in and know, we will know nothing to any purpose. The things which we must know are God, sin, Christ, and eternity. These are the four great things that you need to be well-instructed in.

Jeremiah Burroughs (1599-1646)

God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they be; nor at the logic of your prayers, how methodical they be; but at the sincerity of them He looks at.

Thomas Brooks

Sin is the only object of the hatred of God; nothing is the object of God's hatred but sin.

Richard Steele

He that finds it easy to repent will not find it hard to sin.

Richard Steele

Revival is the SOVEREIGN, SUDDEN, SELECTIVE AND SENSATIONAL operation of the Spirit of God. It descends amid PRAYER, creating PURITY and reaching the PERISHING.

Kenneth Connolly

Never, until sin is seen and sorrowed for as the greatest evil, will Christ be seen and rejoiced in as the greatest Good.

John Yates

Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him, and lay Christ's part on Himself, and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's.

Samuel Rutherford

Stupidity passing for boldness is no excuse for cowardice passing for piety.

John S. Waldrip

Tragically, little passes for "worship" in our day is worthy of a King Who is "pavilioned in splendor," or "Whose chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form." Rather, it is more the worship of a casual friend, a school chum, or a teammate.

Don Kistler