What They Said

“We must either worship Christ as God or despise or pity Him as man.”

John Gerstner

“It is easier to cry against one-thousand sins of others than to kill one of your own.”

John Flavel

“A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.”

G.K. Chesterton

“Upon the two hinges of faith and repentance do all the promises of the Bible stand.”

George Swinnock

“Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!”

George Whitefield

“He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.”

B.B. Warfield

“God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create.  That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure.”

A.W. Pink

“The motto of every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be "Devoted for life.””

Adoniram Judson

“It is to be lamented that the term “irresistible grace” has ever been used, since it suggests the idea of a mechanical and coercive influence upon an unwilling subject, while, in truth, it is the transcendent act of the infinite Creator, making the creature spontaneously willing.”

A. A. Hodge

“I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.”

G.K. Chesterton

"Ultimately it is only the man who feels quite hopeless about himself who really trusts God."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven’t got any.”

G.K. Chesterton

“An ideal Christian home ought to be a place where love rules. It ought to be beautiful, bright, joyous, full of tenderness and affection, a place in which all are growing happier and holier each day. There should never be any discord, any wrangling, any angry words or bitter feelings. The home-life should be a harmonious song without one marring note, day after day. The home, no matter how humble it is, how plain, how small – should be the dearest spot on the earth to each member of the family. It should be made so happy a place, and so full of life, that no matter where one may wander in after years, in any of the ends of the earth – his home should still hold its invisible cords of influence about him, and should ever draw resistless upon his heart. It ought to be the one spot in all the earth, to which he would turn first, when in trouble or in danger. It should be his refuge, in every trial and grief.”

J.R. Miller

“Perseverance may be defined as that continuous operation of the Holy Spirit in the believer, by which the work of divine grace that is begun in the heart, is continued and brought to completion. It is because God never forsakes His work that believers continue to stand to the very end.”

Louis Berkhof

“The great God values not the service of men if the heart be not in it: The Lord sees and judges the heart; He has no regard to outward forms of worship, if there be no inward adoration, if no devout affection be employed therein. It is therefore a matter of infinite importance, to have the whole heart engaged steadfastly for God.”

Isaac Watts

“A true mother is one of the holiest secrets of home happiness. God sends many beautiful things to this world, many noble gifts; but no blessing is richer than that which He bestows in a mother who has learned love's lessons well, and has realized something of the meaning of her sacred calling.”

J.R. Miller

“If, upon the obtaining of the first desire, a man remain unsatisfied, and his desire be more and more enlarged, he hath a covetous heart.”

William Gouge

“A believer does not perform good works to live – but he lives to perform good works.”

William Secker

“Without Christ life is as the twilight with dark night ahead; with Christ, it is the dawn of morning with the light and warmth of a full day ahead.”

Philip Schaff

“Apart from the Spirit, cannot quicken, nor sanctify, nor comfort. It may be read constantly, and searched deeply, and known accurately, and understood partially, and quoted appropriately.  Yet, left to its own unassisted power, “it comes but in word only”, producing no hallowing, no abiding, no saving results.”

Octavius Winslow