What They Said

“To reason with the non-Christian in a fashion purporting to be independent of God or independent of reliance upon revelation is to honor the unregenerate's notions of "evidence" and "verification" as legitimate and correct. However, for the Christian, it is Scripture that governs every aspect of his life, even his concept of "evidence" and the way he reasons with skeptics.”

Greg Bahnsen

“We must not defend our message (that Christ's Word is self-attesting and possessing ultimate authority from the Lord) with a method that works counter to it- by claiming an ultimate epistemological standard outside of Christ's Word of truth.”

Greg Bahnsen

“God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over all areas of life or none.”

Greg Bahnsen

“Without faith, there is no proper understanding by which a man can judge. As Augustine well said, 'I believe in order to understand'.”

Greg Bahnsen

“We must not be satisfied to present Christianity as the most reliable position to hold among the competing options available. Rather, the Christian faith is the only reasonable outlook available to men.”

Greg Bahnsen

I SING the almighty power of God, 

That made the mountains rise, 

That spread the flowing seas abroad, 

And built the lofty skies. 

I sing the wisdom that ordained 

The sun to rule the day; 

The moon shines full at His command 

And all the stars obey. 

I sing the goodness of the Lord 

That filled the earth with food; 

He formed the creatures with His word. 

And then pronounced them good.

There's not a plant or flower below

But makes His glories known.; 

And clouds arise, and tempests blow, 

By order from His throne.

Creatures, as numerous as they be,

Are subject to His care; 

There's not a place where we can flee 

But God is present there.

His hand is my perpetual guard,

Isaac Watts

(Divine Songs for Children - Song 2)

“Religion and common life are not two different and distinct things. We may not cut our existence in two parts, and say, "Over this Christ shall rule — but over that He shall have no control." 

True religion knows no difference between Sunday and Monday, so far as the ethics of life are concerned.  Each day brings its own specific duties; but there are not moral precepts for the one day which are suspended when its sun sets, that for six days a mitigated or less holy law may prevail.  Holiness is to be the Christian's dress all the week through, in every hour's conduct. All pleasures and amusements must be tested by the unvarying rule of right.  The standard of perfect purity cannot be lowered.”

J.R. Miller

“Christianity, of all religions, is the meekest and most humble.  It is founded upon the blood of Christ, who is a Lamb slain.  It is consigned and sealed by the Spirit of Christ, who descended like a dove. Both are emblems of a meek and modest humility.  And should a meek religion be defended by our violences, and the God of peace served with wrathful affections, and the madness of an evil nature bewray itself in the best cause? Christ’s warfare needeth not such carnal weapons; as Achish said, ‘Have I need of mad men?’ 1 Sam. 21:15.  So, hath Jesus Christ need of our passions and furies?  Doth the God of heaven need  a tongue set on fire of hell? James 3:6.”

Thomas Manton

“Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.”

G.K. Chesterton

“A sermon full of mere words, how neatly so ever it is composed, while it wants the light of evidence, and the life of zeal, is but an image or a well-dressed carcass.”

Richard Baxter

“A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.”

E.M. Bounds

“It is not only in the world today that evangelism is needed. It is needed in the church.”

Ernest Reisinger

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

C.S. Lewis

“Unless the being of a God be presupposed, no tolerable account can be given of the being of anything.”

Ezekiel Hopkins

“It is clear that obedience is intimately related to assurance; if we do not live and practice righteousness we have no reason to think that we are “born of God.””

Ernest Reisinger

“The wrong that man had done to the Divine Majesty, should be expiated by none but man, and could be by none but God.”

John Howe

“Our Physician makes these outward blisters in our bodies, to draw out the poisonous corruption that is in our souls: and therefore let us endure what He imposes with patience, and never murmur against Him for effecting His cure; knowing that it is but childish folly to abhor the medicine more than the disease, and that we count them madmen who rage against the physician who intends their recovery.

Let us rather rejoice that the Lord is content to minister to us, because seeing He undertakes to cure us by these medicines, it is a sign that we are not past recovery.  For when in our diseases our estate is desperate, He leaves us to our own appetite, to have what our hearts can desire, and to take our fill of the pleasures of sin.”

George Downame

“The simplification of anything is always sensational.”

G.K. Chesterton

FILL THOU MY LIFE

Fill thou my life, O Lord my God,

in every part with praise,

that my whole being may proclaim

thy being and thy ways.

Not for the lip of praise alone,

nor e'en the praising heart

I ask, but for a life made up

of praise in every part!

Praise in the common things of life,

its goings out and in;

praise in each duty and deed,

however small and mean.

Fill every part of me with praise;

let all my being speak

of thee and of thy love, O Lord,

poor though I be, and weak.

So shalt thou, Lord, from me, e'en me,

receive the glory due;

and so shall I begin on earth

the song forever new.

So shall each fear, each fret, each care

be turned into a song,

and every winding of the way

the echo shall prolong;

So shall no part of day or night

from sacredness be free;

but all my life, in every step

be fellowship with thee. 

Horatius Bonar

“In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it – all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27).”

Albert Barnes

“The only defensible war is a war of defense.”

G.K. Chesterton

“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.”

Blaise Pascal