What They Said

“How astounding is it sometimes to ourselves, that, the base cares and the petty enjoyments of the present world should have so much power over us, as to retard us in our heavenward course, and make us negligent and indolent, heedless and forgetful.”

John Angell James

"What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24)."

John Owen

“A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.”

G.K. Chesterton

"Remember that it is not hasty reading, but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that makes them prove sweet and profitable to the soul.  It is not the bee’s touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time on the flower that draws out the sweet.  It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian."

Thomas Brooks

“Our wants and our real needs are not always the same.  We want pleasure, plenty, and prosperity--but perhaps we need pain, self-denial, the giving up of things that we greatly prize.  We shrink from suffering, from sacrifice, from struggle—perhaps these are the very experiences which will do the most for us, which will bring out in us the best possibilities of our natures, which will fit us for the largest service to God and man.”

J.R. Miller

“War is nothing better than death holding carnival, and devouring his prey a little 

more in haste than is his common wont.”

Charles Spurgeon

“To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.”

Greg Bahnsen

"And truly when we see the wicked bear sway here beneath, let us know that it is a part of God’s justice. Where does it come from that things are so troubled and that some men attain to offices by wicked bribery and partiality, and others by purchase to soon after make their hand again from the poor people by fleecing one and devouring another. It is because God,perceiving us unworthy to be governed by Him, gives the bridle to Satan. You see then that all the wrongs which reign are God’s scourges for our sins as we have seen here previously. Seeing it is so, it behooves us to consider that when the princes and judges of the earth are wicked, God intends to give a greater gloss to His own justice, that it may be known to us how it is He that afflicts us, and by that means punishes the offenses which we have committed, showing that we do not deserve to have Him come near us, but rather to withdraw Himself from us and make us feel that because we are disordered and have shaken off His yoke, and have become like wild beasts, we are worthy to have the devil reign over us and the wicked men which are His underlings and by His appointment."

John Calvin

“The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.”

G.K. Chesterton

“True growth in grace consists of a personal Savior growing increasingly precious. “

Archibald Brown

“The sovereignty of God needs to be brought to the front. There has been too much trifling with Jehovah.  Man needs to have the peacock's feathers plucked out of his cap, and be taught that he is a poor little nothing, and that for God to speak to him at all is infinite condescension, and that for him to say anything else than 'Amen' is boundless impudence.”

Archibald Brown

“In equally solemn tones I declare, as my office bids me, and call every angel to witness, that in this war God is right and the world is wrong. This great truth while I live I will declare, and hope to pronounce it with my dying breath. God is right and the world is wrong. I wish it were set forth in broad letters upon every forehead, and with a pen dipped in heaven were written upon every heart. I wish it were posted in sun beams at the corner of every street, and were graven with the point of a diamond on the rock forever. God is right and the world is wrong. Let this great truth pass from land to land to prostrate nations of unknown tongues, and rolling through every clime, bring an humbled world to their Redeemer's feet.

Standing on my watch tower, I am commanded, if I see aught of evil coming, to give warning. I again solemnly declare that I do see evil approaching. I see a storm collecting in the heavens; I discover the commotion of the troubled elements; I hear the roar of distant winds. Heaven and earth seem mingled in conflict; and I cry to those for whom I watch, A storm! a storm! get into the ark or you are swept away.—Ah what is it I see? I see a world convulsed and falling to ruins; the sea burning like oil; nations rising from under ground; the sun falling; the damned in chains before the bar, and some of my poor hearers with them. I see them cast from the battlement of the judgment seat. My God, the eternal pit has closed upon them forever!”

Edward Griffin

"Delighting in God always produces resignation and holy contentment. Whatever they have--they enjoy it as the undeserved gift of God; and they feel obligated and thankful for all. They would rather be conformed to God's will--than have their own will. They know that His appointments are best--because they are infinitely wise, holy, and gracious. They can say, "I trust in You, O Lord, for You are my God! My times are in Your hand!" They find that godliness with contentment is great gain; and say with one of old, "The little that a righteous man has--is better than the riches of many wicked!" "Better a little with the fear of the Lord--than great treasure with turmoil."

James Smith

“A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.”

G.K. Chesterton

“Here is the root of man's misery by the fall.  He is turned aside to the creature, and gives that esteem, confidence and affection to the creature--which is due to God alone.”

Joseph Alleine

“If magistrates go against the rule of Christ they may be deposed.”

Ulrich Zwingli

“All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.”

Martin Luther

“All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.”

John Wycliffe

“Depend upon it, the nearer we get back to the nakedness of worship, the nearer we get to its truth and purity; and it is because man has fallen, that as his body wants clothing, so he is always dressing up his religion.”

Charles Spurgeon

“Most modern freedom is at root fear.  It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.”

G.K. Chesterton

“The Lord has chosen that His people should pass through deep and cutting afflictions, for it is "through many afflictions" they are to enter the Kingdom of God above, and into the sweetness and power of the Kingdom of God below. But every man will resent this doctrine, except God has led him experimentally into it. It is such a rough and rugged path—it is so contrary to flesh and blood—it is so inexplicable to nature and reason—that man, proud, rebellious man, will never believe that he must enter into the Kingdom of God through many afflictions. ”

J.C. Philpot

“On every side are hosts of enemies ever invading our souls— trampling down every good thing in our hearts—accompanied by a flying troop of temptations, doubts, fears, guilt and bondage sweeping over our soul. And we, as regards our own strength, are helpless against them. But there is a refuge set before us in the gospel of the grace of God. The Lord Jesus Christ, as King in Zion, is there held up before our eyes—as the Rock of our refuge—our strong Tower—our impregnable Fortress—and we are encouraged by every precious promise and every gospel invitation when we are overrun and distressed by these wandering, ravaging, plundering tribes—to flee unto and find a safe refuge in Him. 

Keep me safe, O God, for in You I take refuge. O Lord my God, I take refuge in You—save and deliver me from all who pursue me.”

J.C. Philpot

“Many are foolishly apt to think that a minister is more spiritual than anyone else. But I am daily more and more sensible of the desperate wickedness of my deceitful heart, and my miserable ruined state as a sinner by nature and by practice. I feel utterly unworthy of the name of a Christian, and to be ranked among the followers of the Lamb. I have no desire to palm myself off on any church, as though I were anything. I am willing to take a low place.”

J.C. Philpot